Re: Going metric @JLV
"But, I question the logic whereby the EU felt it had to intervene in what’s essentially internal UK affairs in this case." Assuming you are talking about weights and measures, the EU didn't interfere at all. The relevant Regulation simply said that packaged goods must show the weight etc in metric somewhere on the package (harmonisation of trade). It did not, however, say that other units could not be used on the packaging. The UK government decided to gold-plate the legislation (surprise!), and then went for broke with legislation that required market traders (i.e. sellers of *unpackaged* goods) to use metric measurements, leading to the totally unedifying case of the "Metric Martyrs", in which Laws J completely misread the law and played into the hands of the EU haters.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
