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don't give an inch to their demands...

Also, and I think I speak for the entire IT sector, do t replace GDPR! It was a horrendous pain to implement and changing to a new set of rules would be the same

Also, as far as I know, it is still legal to order a pint in a pub so when was using imperial units made a criminal offence?

Back to 1841 and we can reintroduce Whitworth as our standard measurement for threads and totally obliterate any chance of selling equipment abroad. Smashing move there Baldrick. They really are stupid!

Just as sad as trotting out the classic review EU law, as if that's not already done to death as well.

53. The return of terms such PoliceMEN, FireMEN as women have MEN in them (so it’s fine) 54. Making the speed limit on motorways 80mph because brakes are better 55. No more sourdough 56. All pensioners to be granted an errand boy, simply addressed as ‘boy’ 57. White families in ads (but no gingers)

Pints of wine…I guess. As has been stated elsewhere, Brexit is now the status quo, it’s up to them to justify why everything is just peachy right now. Good luck with that 😬

Because, of course, after 60 years of metrication, industry is going to rekey for Imperial, helping our exports to be sold to a market of zero.

Re introduce 100w filament bulbs, ban on double glazing and do away with pesky insulation and do away with door locks, back to the day where you can leave the doors open but it does make it easier for the Reform goons to invade and cart dissenters off. That ring camera, come in handy for reform.

Any more idiotic than renaming bodies of water after America?

Just ridiculous. Why can't they come up with more positives? There are none.

The biggest risk is the last one. All they need to do, to remove social, medical, food & fisheries, health and safety and other protections is to do nothing, and they would all disappear after 5 years.

Should have got rid of all imperial measurements around the same time as deciminalisation..... Oh, fuck! They're not going to bring back pounds, shillings & pence are they?]. I'm 61 and never used imperial at school, but have been indoctrinated with MPH, pints, 12" rulers, "pound of flesh" etc.

So none of it achieves anything useful and the sunset clause one is a rehash of the Tories disastrous policy. Ten years of reduced trade and isolation for this rubbish? Pathetic.

Imperial units LOLOLOLOLOL

Thanks for sharing these. He really is a delight isn't he...

Also I am not sure how anyone (except a foreign worker with an equivalent cerificate) could have developed any experience in construction without CSCS training as it has been mandatory on UK sites fir as long as I can remember.

It doesn't help that the media constantly gave equal screen time to experts as they did far-right activists, giving the impression that their views all had equal weight. Brexit was the death of expert options and lay groundwork for future politicians and journalists to completely ignore experts

I don't know what people's problem is with reverting back to traditional units of measure. It's not like they are complicated or anything...😬

Spent 30 years dealing with US brewers using Fahrenheit taught me that retaining imperial units has marooned them in the past

Fkn clowns eh?

In advance of a Reform government, I'm working out how many furlongs my car will travel on a hogshead of petrol.

"Review unchanged EU laws... and repeal in 5 years" They've had ten years and haven't yet managed to nail down any specific laws to repeal?

The guy's a complete idiot....

Point 50, legalising imperial units doesn't mean any business or shops are going to change to units to something no young people understand. Point 51, review could mean anything or nothing. Point 52, we will either repeal some laws or we wont. The usual guff that only appeals to their base.

Oh gosh honest Bob what another fine mess ( by the way thanks for the newspaper - I have returned it at your cost )

Every other country in the world manages to trade with US without using imperial units, except Myanmar and Liberia. Both of those are working towards transition to metric.

What a fatuous idiot. A kneejerk simpleton.

Bring back poppy seeds and barleycorns as a unit of length. 4 poppy seeds to the barleycorn and 3 barleycorn to the inch. Now calculate the speed in poppyseed per hour if a car traverses 3500 barleycorns in 23 imperial minutes. Answers on a postcard to Reform plc HQ using their freepost address.

We had the pint, the pound, the mile, the three pin plug, the veto. We also had higher GDP, free movement and zero small boats. Can someone explain what we were meant to be taking control of. Farage needs to own the stain of this utter catastrophe.

Our freedom to be enslaved by the wealthiest 1%, just like in America. Goodie!

Jenrick is a rood short of an acre.

The United Kingdom has never stopped using Imperial units, despite claiming to be metric since the mid-1960s.

Bring back pre-decimal currency?

To be fair, I still think in imperial measures but I learned both systems in school as far back as the late fifties/early sixties. If something is 6ft, I can usually fathom out that it is roughly 2 meters. ;-)

Sadly, it's not just plonkers in the Tories & the further-führer-Right grasping at some long decomposed delusion of English-(not UK)-supremacy, but Labour MPs, too. Where do these petty isolationists come from? - the MPs, I mean. We know why the media proprietors want it.

How pathetic. Bring on talks to rejoin!

Insane!

53. Anything written after 1968 is not real music and must be referred to as "that bloody racket" 54. Bring back caning in schools 55. Fuck it, just whip schoolchildren on the daily, irrespective of whether they've done anything wrong or not 56. White dog poo

Anything that isn't from the imagination of a 1950s five year old?

What about the Imperial electrical units?

Alert, alert: Use of the word "neoliberal". Can ignore rest of somewhat windy and vacuous post.

Bravo!!

Maybe they need to have a word with Jacob Rees-Mogg. He might still have all his old notes they could recycle, it could save them sometime and help them prepare their excuses for when it fails again. So much for offering change.

Jenerick just another conservative reject trying to keep his snout in the trough, trying to appeal to utter morons and racist imbeciles. No sane intelligent person would want the imperial system back, and reform voters who struggle with decimal would have a meltdown, how many ounces in a stone etc

The dumbest part of that argument was they could be any colour we wanted them to be. Croatia have black ones for example, and they’re in the EU.

Sadly, we are forgetting that Brexit wasn't won on logic. It was won on 'feeling'. Forgotten parts of the UK wanted someone to blame for their pathetic lives. The Tories & Farage gave them the EU. Very little has changed. We cannot educate the willfully ignorant!!

They took Churchill off of the money and put on islamocommie wildlife!!!

They stole that one from Jacob Rees Mogg… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's bloody groundhog day, give me flipping strength.

A lot of reforms "ideas" are either about going backwards to previous times or changing things because they're from the EU. None of which is remotely practical. And that's before you get to their racist policies and idiotic spending plans etc

I'm glad they're legalising imperial units. Can't wait to go to the pub and order a 'pint'. Haven't been able to do that in years...

They have to stop believers from questioning what they actually do (mainly race riots, grifting and failing) with such will never happen policy announcements…

How to make trade more expensive and difficult ...

So many of these people miss the point of laws governing our interactions with other nations (like GDPR and trading standards). They have to be at least bilateral, preferably multilateral. Otherwise, to borrow a phrase from that buffoon Johnson (yes, I see the irony), it's just political onanism.

Give me back me Shillings 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I feel like a teacher red penning someones homework and writing you can do better than this

He doesn’t even qualify to be Tim Nice But Dim1 He’s got the dim bit covered, but nice not so much!

Jenrick just needs to grow a little moustache.

But considerably less charming (than even the unpleasant ones)

So we should now measure Reform’s bullshit and Nigel Farage’s corruption in gallons and hundredweights then? Done and done…

Get rid of the internet and bring back wooden shoes for peasants.

51. Review all unchanged EU law. Like Trump has to undo anything Biden and Obama did, just because.

If they added the requirement for a man carrying a red flag in front of every car, lorry and railway engine they’d get my vote!

Why stop there? Bring back guineas (=£1.05 for non-oldies), pen quills, the birch, slide rules, horse and carriages, the Spitfire for the RAF...anything else?

Presumably Farage went to the pub after this and ordered his usual 0.568 litre.

An amazing manifesto of nonsense How many pint bottles of Champagne were ever made?

😂😂😂Shouldn’t laugh but it is a joke . Their only policies are racism they have nothing else

Brexit was supposed to open up bigger opportunities, so focusing on imperial measurements feels like a pretty odd priority. Surely there are more important freedoms to talk about.

Ahhh yes the good old days... A quarter pond of midget gems..Will Re£orm legislate for the return of the liquorice ones please.. And I remember getting a half pound of Victory Vs....Wonder if they'll legislate for the return of ether too. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Re-legalise? They aren't actually illegal just restricted to make trading easier across the world as only 3 countries use the old imperial system and of course America is one of them

Make him run a furlong in his bare feet!

There’s not a grain of sense in anything Jenrick says.

Or just chain him up.

Well worth £850 million a week in lost revenues!

underappreciated

Imagine ordering in anything that requires weight or length measurements from Europe .... It will mean a cost increase, because you would need to round everything up.....

Re-legalise imperial units? Never realised you could get arrested for referring to 70mph.

Just a reminder; Jenrick voted to remain in the EU. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/robe...

Idiots devising nonsensical policies w/o any practical effects to indulge other idiots. Democracy at its finest.

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This nonsense that the EU put laws onto our Statute Books without permission is just one of the deeply stupid things the gammon believes. Along with the belief that Pavel the untrained (they’re never trained) electrician is stealing his job.

And change those measurements in tunnels ffs I am furious to see EU numbers on a wall instead of good old British numbers.British numbers for British tunnels!!!! That was the sort of argument from the Tories about a‘Brexit benefit’ maybe someone can clarify it as it was mental at the time as is now

Well I dont think we can expect much from them as it requires thought,self awareness and slight consciousness. None of them have either.

Perhaps they'll bring back bear-baiting and compulsory archery practice on Sunday's too.

I got arrested for asking for 568ml of beer in the UK.

Sheer madness

I'm with Jenrick on this. I for one am sick to the back teeth of facing jail time if I don't order a 568ml at the pub.

FFS imperial measurements and pounds shillings and pence😂😂

It's pretty good personal revisionism on his part, someone who was once a remainer. I heard that rees-mogg's support a few years ago for 1-pint Champagne bottles single-handedly boosted sales...er...

I teach L2 Functional Skills Maths (GCSE equivalent but with a narrower, more useful in daily life curriculum) and have to teach imperial/metric conversions to 16 year olds. It makes me want to weep! I’m rapidly approaching retirement and went to primary school in the 70s. I was taught only metric.

Do you remember Rees-Mogg being challenged as to the benefits, and his number one was "you know the signs in tunnels telling you how far the exit is, and they're funny looking numbers? We'll sort that by using imperial again." That was it, the prime example he could cite on national television.

Risible.

If Donald had his way it would be the American Channel 😂

I’m in my 70th decade and don’t use or want to use or need to use imperial units. Jenrick’s not even old enough to have been taught imperial. Does he know how irritating & irrational cwt.st.lbs.oz or gal.qts.pts.gills are? How far back are we going, roods & perches? What an idiot.

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But we can still use them, if we want to and they are still in school books!

Definitely going for the care home vote.

As Reform are intent on rolling the clocks back, no internet, nor social media. That'll cut Reform to the quick.

One hundred and thirty-seven pounds, twelve and ninepence three-farthings divided by seven. Go.

I'm 67 and was a bricklayer. The thought of working in yards, feet, inches, and fractions thereof would irk the shit out of me. Metric was quickly and successfully introduced in the 60s because it is faster, simpler and more accurate.

Gosh Farage big idea is that we start buying gallons of petrol not litres! Whoopee!

Did the idiot Jenrick actually leave the Conservatives or was he kicked out for being too incompetent even for them?

A trip (1/20 of a point) is 17638nm.

And they'll take 25.4mm 😂