Melodi
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I am posting this as a stand alone off the main thread because it is a fun story and it so totally illustrates one of the main reasons so many people in "middle England" voted to leave the EU. People were enraged when the EU forced (with fines) butchers, tailors and even pubs to enforce the metric system even if their customers still wanted pounds and ounces. The government threw up its hands because "there was no choice" because of "EU rules and Regulations."
Underestimating just how strongly people can feel about keeping things that they feel are part of their very cultural identity is just one of the many mistakes the EU made; along with an over-all tendency to just try and railroad people with many other policies no one got to vote on and whose opinion was not asked.
North Devon butcher offers meat in pounds and ounces following vote to leave the EU
By NDJNicole | Posted: June 24, 2016
image: http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/...10/Article/images/29439598/14667780-large.jpg
Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.
Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.
A FAMILY run Butchers has given people the choice to buy their meat in pounds and ounces following the EU referendum result this morning.
Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.
This morning Darren Gratton told the Journal that a lot of customers wanted their meat sold in the older imperial method of pounds and ounces.
He said: "We have done it both ways this morning. The next step is to speak to North Devon Council and if they say we can go back to pounds and ounces then we will do. All the customers wanted it back in pounds."
Andrew Honey from G E Honey and Son Butchers in Bideford said they had no plans to revert back to imperial measurements and that there was no need.
He said: "We have been using the metric system since 1994. I don't see the point in going backwards."
Mike Turton, who runs a butcher shop in Ilfracombe, said he had no plans to change back to the metric system yet.
Read more at http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/...9439598-detail/story.html#DxFqsyHkEkdeelHm.99
Underestimating just how strongly people can feel about keeping things that they feel are part of their very cultural identity is just one of the many mistakes the EU made; along with an over-all tendency to just try and railroad people with many other policies no one got to vote on and whose opinion was not asked.
North Devon butcher offers meat in pounds and ounces following vote to leave the EU
By NDJNicole | Posted: June 24, 2016
image: http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/...10/Article/images/29439598/14667780-large.jpg
Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.
Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.
A FAMILY run Butchers has given people the choice to buy their meat in pounds and ounces following the EU referendum result this morning.
Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.
This morning Darren Gratton told the Journal that a lot of customers wanted their meat sold in the older imperial method of pounds and ounces.
He said: "We have done it both ways this morning. The next step is to speak to North Devon Council and if they say we can go back to pounds and ounces then we will do. All the customers wanted it back in pounds."
Andrew Honey from G E Honey and Son Butchers in Bideford said they had no plans to revert back to imperial measurements and that there was no need.
He said: "We have been using the metric system since 1994. I don't see the point in going backwards."
Mike Turton, who runs a butcher shop in Ilfracombe, said he had no plans to change back to the metric system yet.
Read more at http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/...9439598-detail/story.html#DxFqsyHkEkdeelHm.99