Crowns & Ounces: PM to announce return of Imperial measurements

Crowns and Ounces: PM to announce return of Imperial measurements

- The exclusive use of Imperial measurements is to be decriminalised after the EU criminalised it in the 1970s in favour of Metric
- Crowns to symbolise a standard Imperial Pint is to make a comeback on British beer glasses

Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit https://t.co/ysDIKAX4md

— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) September 16, 2021

This is great news in that a historical wrong is being righted.

Britons were perfectly happy using a measurement system they had used for centuries, until European politicians decided to make it a crime - yes, an actual crime - to sell apples, juice and beer using Imperial measurements. In the 1990s there were the famous cases of the 'Metric martyrs' who were a group of normal market traders who got taken to court by the EU for daring to use a measurement system their customers actually liked, as opposed to the one they used in Brussels, Berlina and Paris.

Been outrage and mocking on Twitter over this, but most of us even younger use Imperial everyday without even realising.

Miles, yards, inches, square foot, pints, tonnes, gallons, ounces. I understand why Metric is used for science, but for real life Imperial is far superior.

Yeap. People under 30. They famously don't drink beer by the pint or buy illegal drugs by the ounce. I must have imagined that. https://t.co/L3DJm4uzik

— John Duffield (@jfwduffield) September 17, 2021

Great news. The Metric Martyrs case took 20 years but now we can buy goods in pounds and ounces again, not just Napoleonic measurements.

We even get the crown back on pint glasses.

Brexit is making us more British.

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) September 17, 2021