SIR – Contrary to popular belief, Britain is not a metricating nation, nor can it be one.
Extant British Common Law inviolably prohibits everything that the people reject as it is the law of the land and the people.
Since 1897, the British people have rejected the metric measurement system as inferior, restricting, inflexible, long-winded and of limited utility. Surveys repeatedly show 97 per cent of people reject metrication.
The imperial weights and measures for all purposes have been expressly authorised by the Imperial Parliament in Westminster.
No amending Act has ever been introduced.
No law, political manifesto or Queen’s speech has ever stipulated metrication.
Britain’s metrication is based purely on the wish of two past civil servants and a failed sop for Britain’s then refused entry into the EEC.
Since then, Edward Heath’s wilful treason against his own people in 1972 has rendered all pro-Europe legislation illegal as treason is neither lawful nor legitimate.
By law, Britain cannot become a metric nation.
It will be a serious offence to attempt otherwise.
REX POULTON
Salisbury
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