by Oh well, so much for the metric system, it looks like we are going to go back to the silly imperial system. Boris Johnson’s government has promised it will pass legislation to allow British traders to sell their wares in pounds and ounces, rather than grams and kilograms, as it revealed plans to seek a liberalization dividend from Brexit.The restoration of old imperial weights, long demanded by Brexit supporters who resented the imposition of metric measures by Brussels, was among the top potential benefits of the UK leaving the European Union listed on Thursday by Lord David Frost, the minister responsible for implementing Brexit. from the European Union.UK pledges to restore pounds and ounces as Brexit benefit
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Oh well, so much for the metric system, it looks like we are going to go back to the silly imperial system.
Boris Johnson’s government has promised it will pass legislation to allow British traders to sell their wares in pounds and ounces, rather than grams and kilograms, as it revealed plans to seek a liberalization dividend from Brexit.
The restoration of old imperial weights, long demanded by Brexit supporters who resented the imposition of metric measures by Brussels, was among the top potential benefits of the UK leaving the European Union listed on Thursday by Lord David Frost, the minister responsible for implementing Brexit. from the European Union.
UK pledges to restore pounds and ounces as Brexit benefit