I watched that episode of Question Time (why do the Brits act so much more civilized when they debate on television than most Americans do, I wonder ... perhaps I should refer back to David Mitchell's soapbox bit regarding inappropriate questions ;-)
What I found interesting was that Secretary Darling did not at all oppose the (at the time) pending suppression of Imperial units as supplementary indications starting in 2010 (which never happened, of course) and based his objection to converting road signs only because of the cost (which UKMA has indicated is wildly inflated). -- Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 1:39:05 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:47776] Re: UK reversion to multiple units John, The episode of Question Time with the Roads minister on it had him saying (adamantly) that we are not going to go metric with signs. This was the PREVIOUS labour minister. The party which apparently started all the km stuff off. Very confusing signals! (excuse the pun)
