The Daily Mail reports Mr Johnson is also planning to bring back the crown symbol on pint glasses, in a move that Brexit opportunities minister Jacob Rees-Mogg branded "a very fitting symbol" for the UK's departure from the EU.
The paper claims an EU directive banned the use of the symbol on pint glasses, although a European Commission spokesperson said EU law does not forbid the use of any markings as long as it doesn't "overlap or be confused with" the CE mark, which shows a product meets the bloc's rules.
The EU weights and measures directive came into force in 2000, with traders legally required to use metric units for sale-by-weight or the measure of fresh produce. It remains legal to price goods in pounds and ounces but they have to be displayed alongside the price in grammes and kilogrammes.
That’s so outdated 🤣
So we are going to get less for more. A yard is less than a metre, so will prices be reduced to match the short measure. Somehow I don't think so.
Bloody stupid imperialistic waster of money and dreams
Yeah, yeah, very important; that will put food on the table.
Release the RussiaReport
Utterly ridiculous. Back to the 19th Century and the laughing stock of Europe.
Hahahaha What is it all about? Will the drink be cheaper? Will the drink taste better? Did EU stop UK from doing this? Is he pointing at nothing to distract voters from Partygate
No thanks
Imperial measures never really departed in the UK, I still think in pounds and ounces, feet and inches and as someone posted elsewhere whoever ordered a litre of beer in the pub!
Just spent god knows how many years getting to grips with metric and that stupid fool wants to go backwards to imperial heaven help this country
This will help with energy bills👍🏼
Why?
As long as you teach Decimals in schools and colleges it would be ok it is light yeard ahead of imperial.
Is this a joke or a distraction tactic?
What load of shite
Not a vote winner. All the Leavers I've known are half-metric like the rest of us, i.e., we all measure height in feet and inches and distance in miles, temperature in Celsius, a minority uses kilos for weight, and we all freely alternate between systems for everything else.
Fantastic use of tax-payer money. Now that most of the population are used to the much more sensible metric system, let's roll us back 70 years. And let's pretend that it was the EU preventing us putting imperial units on our goods, when it was nothing of the sort. SMH
Only absolutely NONE of this BS was ever prevented by our EU membership… Pathetic.. NeverVoteConservative
It’s makes me very happy that this is all they have left to feed their mini trumpanzees. The Tories are royalty stuffed 😂
And nobody sane will take the slightest notice.
So that’s what BoJo and Chancellor promised to beat inflation and help with living cost crisis?
He needs a distraction from what looks like tampering with the Gray report. And uninvestigated parties in No10.
Desperate
Is that seriously the best he can do?....just diversion tactics
Another distraction to try and get him off the hook. Not working.
Fake News!!!
I bet he won’t fetch back the gallon instead of litres of petrol
The EU had nothing to do with it but his fan base will love it 👍 flags 👍
Not the full shilling.
What's next? Hanging and the birch? Ration books? 3 tv channels? What a wanker.
I don’t want to upset people but the four countries in the world that don’t use metric for all weights, distances & dimensions are quite dysfunctional: USA 🇺🇸 Liberia 🇱🇷 Myanmar 🇲🇲 Disunited Kingdom 🙄
Unbelievable! this guy would .... his dog to stay in power. 🙄
You mean as part of Britain's departure from the 21st Century.
And pre decimal money
Pointless populist bullshit.
Madness.
Does this mean we will be changing our maths curriculum in schools? What a mess!!!
Looking forward to buying a gallon of petrol again. And I can't wait to learn all about pounds, shillings and pence. But I fear that this Brexit benefit has been announced simply to distract from the SueGrayReport and MinisterialCode scandals. JohnsonOut125 NotMovingOn
Look forward to it helping the cost of living crisis. Does that mean we count law breaking in dozens instead of tens?
Don't they call that a shitload of old bollocks?
FOODBANKS
Another reason to hate him and this out of touch govt
The yard of lies, now available with new easy to ignore, watered down rules.
Pandering, oh look we are using imperial measurements and we have a fancy crown. Doesn't change the fact Britain is far from British any more, and it's getting worse not better.
Let’s go back to how it all used to be. Me mam had a ration book - can I have one please? She also had polio but I’d like to pass on that
Blatant lie Just another one 😬
Candy floss nonsense. I want to know about the ABBA parties at number 10.
RuthvenPhilip Stupidity
Pathetic.
They never left. It's a Brexit lie, one of many.
imperial measurements? we make fun of the Americans for that sh*t
Daft bugger
RuthvenPhilip Just what the economy needs, more cost, more confusion and more stupidity.
Of course anyone who works in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, engineering, healthcare, R and D will still use metric- because imperial measurement is useless in the real world.
RuthvenPhilip Pity no one will be able to afford a pint by next winter 🙄
You have always been able to sell in imperial (why would you want to?) and put crown symbols on pint glasses. The EU has never ever stopped us doing that.
That’s a relief. The other day I went down the pub, asked for a pint and got a…… oh……
Madness
This is a lie. Call yourself a news organisation?!
Good.
1/ I am not aware of any reputable scientific journal that accepts a paper with imperial units. Is there any? So not good news for scientists. 2/ What is the point in going back to more complicated system? 3/ How much will this implementation cost?
Right. Because that’s the burning issue right now. For crying out loud, can we please just fast forward to the next general election and end this foolishness? We are not all excited by mindless jingoism.
Wow , who would have thought those sunlit uplands could have been this good
There was nothing stopping us doing this while in the EU. Also, good to know that, while we can't afford half a tank of petrol or three meals a day, the PM is fuckarsing about redesigning pint glasses. priorities
What's the point when milk is already sold in pints. Industry and science will keep using SI units since that is the 'common language'. It's a distraction from the real issues and from the indecent conduct of the PM.
Rolling back decimal money to shilling and pence will be the next move. Then after that will be the reintroduction of the tax on sunlight getting into the home. What's after that? My money is wooden ships in the Royal Navy and press ganging sailors & 6 day working week.
And that ladies and gentlemen is what you've won from brexit. Hope it's bloody worth all the damage it's doing to the country
Well since are going down that road when BorisJohnson is found guilty of lying to parliament, corruption and criminal activity in public office, forget his resignation or losing his seat give him 50 lashes and ship.him off to Australia. That ImperialMeasures enough?
Please stop engaging with this crap. It’s nothing more than a distraction, an appeal to knuckle-dragging nationalists. Johnson is using the media to do his bidding.
And... How much will this cost? Who will profit from it? What connection do they have to the Tory party?
If we are going back to imperial measurements can it be £2 a gallon rather £2 a litre
I’m sick of dead fücking cats
Can we take back the colonies America, India and Australia too then we don’t need to beg them for a trade deal. Why should they be independent, They are ours.
But But But…I REALLY don’t care! I suppose he’ll think it’s a win if he brings back the groat and the florin. NOOOOO! Hey Bunter you useless sack of S***, we don’t want to live in the past, we’ve moved on. All you’re offerings are utterly banal and pointless.. just like YOU!
This is just desperate. If England falls for this crap then can you please vote to dissolve the union.
Im sure this will cost over few good hundred millions
Wont change anything
Johnson's spinners putting out nonsense briefings? Could there be something they want to distract us from by any chance ...? SueGrayReport NotMovingOn
Pathetic. It’s like some sort of stupid 6th form prefect prank.
Dead cat
FFS can it get any worse
Can we bring back gallons at the petrol pumps BorisJohnson, it's around £8.00 a gallon, sharp intake of breath, how much is that in tax? 😡 I remember it 50 pence a gallon in the early 70s.
Dead cat - who cares. Ignore
Do we not use lb and ounces any more ? We still have feet and inches don’t we. Oh dear I must catch up
Bring back the florin that's what I say.
Is he going to bring back imperialism?
Will that bring down electricity bills or make up for the £16 billion fraud to his mates or the record national debt?
Wow. What measurements will my gas and electricity bills be in. Good to see 10DowningStreet dealing with the important things. NOT!!!
Pandering to popularism. Complete waste of time. A generation or two of teens, 20s and 30s who will need to learn useless stuff. BJ is desperate to collect some nationalist support from somewhere.
Oh well at least Brexit wasn’t a total failure!
Got to keep the wealthy gammons happy. The plebs won’t be able to afford a beer no matter the measurement or design on the glass.
Just keep on trotting out government bullshit to the ignorant, credulous masses, yeah! Why not try actually reporting truth for a fucking change!
As confirmed by the BBC (no less) and the Daily Express (no lesser) the EU never banned the crown on glasses. It was another Brexit lie.
So £8.00 + for a gallon of petrol!
Because he is running out of ways to make the U.K. less relevant so now he’s down to imperial measurements Why I’m 45 and learned metric at school, no one my age or below uses imperial when there’s a choice (miles/mph and pints don’t count as no choice)
Whilst people starve and cant afford to heat their homes and pay there bills... This government is unbelievable
Not like we have issues that need dealing with
Stick with a pint mate. Leave the rest alone. What next?
What a lot of rubbish. Absolute tosh malarkey.
He luvs winding up the lefty proEU remainers and they bite every time
Good for him, I want my measurements to be randomly base 12, 14, or 16, I want Fahrenheit, but only if it's hot, grains, poles, furlongs, acre-feet, thou of an inch, all of it. 10 is so complicated and hard to work with. Progress!
Haven’t they announced this once already. It was shown to be a non starter and huge waste of money then so why recycle the same distraction story?
Glad yo see thrg are focusing on the important issues 🥴
Tackling all the issues that matter I see. ImperialMeasurements JubileeCelebration ToryCostOfLivingCrisis ToriesPartiedWhilePeopleDied politics NorthernIreland ScottishIndependence indywales
Why?
And alter the curriculum again to convert imperial measures when at last anyone can use mental calculation with 10, 100, 1000?! We can still order a pint, measure a baby weight in lbs, distance in miles. The crown symbol story untrue. What a non story smokescreen special.
Woopy do.
another pointless act that serves no one and adds zero value, oooooohhh, a crown on a pint glass.
How about cutting the price of it rather worrying about imperial or metric 🤡
Seriously I don't know about you all , but I think this guy is on borrowed time 🤦🏾♂️
What is this gonna achieve? Other than make us worse at maths
Laughable
Need to get rid of imperial measurements altogether. Another blatant attempt at appeasing Brexiteers, distracting from real issues like honesty, integrity, etc. in public office.
Twitter: show me a PM that should be working on GB News on a weeknight show. 🙄
Brexiteers can count past their number of fingers what good is it for them
Great, can we also bring back Diphtheria, Rickets & Scurvy? After all they are quintessentially British diseases and fit in with the new British reduced standard of living
🤣Made up nonsense,just red meat for his stupid brexit base ,even thow it's a failure,no one will use it.
This will simply be a relaxation of the existing EU directive that goods MUST be sold in metric. Companies/traders will chose what’s best for them and their customers; little will change. Imagine going apoplectic about ‘weights & measures’ though! gammon 🤔
Agriculture in the U.K. is suffering. A lack of workers will result in millions of product that require labour for harvesting and packing to go uneaten. Such a pity to see one bad decision after another!!
James O’Brien won’t be happy.
nonsense
We can all order our Italian, Spanish and Belgian lagers in glasses with the British crown on. What effective government policy and delivery 🤡
But it isn’t OK for the ethnic Russians to speak Russian in Ukrainian schools
Load of shit
So the benefits of Brexit has come down to this? What a load of cobblers.
Why?
The departure from the EU has just made England look like a very silly little country that can't really cope on its own.
How about gift of a resignation on breaking the rules?
That should fix everything
Clearly Boris Johnson has no interest in promoting a lie in order to promote his culture war, division gonads.
Pathetic.
Always in tune with the real hardships facing the population today
Better do something about the rapidly disappearing pubs then
The deadest of dead cats
DeadCat PartyGate NotMovingOn ResignJohnson JohnsonLies
From Base 10 to Base 12, 14, 16, 20 - you name it! Absolutely ridiculous!!! This government not only wants to make it difficult for themselves - but for everyone else!!
Yeah back to the 70’s he’s doing a great job!
They never went away. This an absolute pile of crap of a story, pure deflection
Why not bring back groats too? That way we can look like complete fecking idiots.
What a load of Tosh! Is this all they can come up with as a benefit to Brexit!
Absolutely absurd and you know it
They could do this while inside the EU though
What a stupid, jingoistic, act of deflection this is. Is this one of 'the big decisions' he is supposed to do for us? If this is the best 'benefit of Brexit' he can deliver, then please return us to the EU
Look over there at that thing!!!
Well whoop di do 🤣
That'll keep the thickos quiet.
Great. Now poor families will be able to imagine the food they don’t have in lbs & oz.
Because this more important than sorting out the corruption in government or finding out 35 billion give to his mates.
5 more years!
Because imperial measurements are so widely used in science 😅
That should work
Which brings absolutely no benefits whatsoever. Great leadership.
We really need to distance ourselves from these unhinged people
Hey, why not? They brought back rickets... It'll be workhouses next.
And LBC believe this rubbish i sees few tweets saying Europe never stop us providing ce make was on this normal I really like Global radio output from capital fm hart radio and Lbc but this headline dot go down the road of cable channel GB news and satellite ch talk tv
⚠️PM tears up our rights & respect for RuleofLaw & constraints on Govt power & replaces Queen as constitutional head of state!? NB Rees Mogg propaganda on Channel4News stated that under Johnson, we've become a Presidential system'!! 1🔥😱
Dead catting - who has ever said they wanted this - JUST GO JOHNSON, YOU HAD OUTSTAYED YOUR WELCOME WHEN YOU WROTE TWO POST BREXIT VOTE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES - GO
funny that im drinling outta a pint glass right now (cordial by the way🙄) and theres a crown on it so this is grade a ballix
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