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I wonder if a successful TTIP agreement would be the catalyst for this? It's inexplicable that the EU/ EEA would allow for non-metric goods to freely flow into the market.


I'm all for going fully metric but a failed TTIP agreement would actually be something worth losing some space probes over.


What's a non-metric good? Isn't it the labelling that makes something metric or not?


Is labelling not a good?


Should it also be illegal for the UK to teach Imperial units? I find the European attitude that government should ban everything they don't like perplexing.


> Should it also be illegal for the UK to teach Imperial units?

Yes. It's a waste of children's time (and there is a massive market failure in education, so laws are the only way to make changes).


The only thing the EU would accomplish by making it illegal to teach Imperial in the UK is guaranteeing they leave the EU.


No, it shouldn't. As much as I also dislike the Continental love of the ban hammer, I'm not sure what it has to with this.




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