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Bring back proper imperial measurements in schools. The metric system was imposed on us by Brussels.

Education ● National by SovereignTrevor · 🏷️ 1. Concerned Citizen · Fringe · 2 months ago
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Pounds, ounces, yards, furlongs, gills, firkins and stones. Britain built an empire on these measurements. We went to the moon on these measurements. Actually the Americans did that, but they used inches, which we invented. Just saying.

The metric system was imposed on British schools by Brussels bureaucrats in the 1970s and our children have been confused ever since. Ask any child how many pounds in a stone and they will stare at you blankly. Ask them how many grams in a kilogram and they will answer correctly. This is not a coincidence. This is what Brussels wanted.

The Great British Common Sense Party proposes reinstating imperial measurements in all primary and secondary schools, as the primary system, with metric taught only as a foreign language. Our children deserve to know what a firkin is. You couldn't make it up.

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As a primary school teacher I feel a duty to point out that the metric system was invented in revolutionary France, not Brussels, and that Britain officially adopted it in 1965, quite a few years before we joined the Common Market. Not a political point, just trying to stop a generation of children from thinking the EU controls the width of their ruler.
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I was taught imperial at school. It was rubbish then too. 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 8 stone in a hundredweight, 20 hundredweight in a ton. My uncle Geoff once bet me £5 I couldn't convert 3 miles into chains, and I couldn't, because nobody can, because nobody should.
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Teaching kids that nonsense again just to spite Europe. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.
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ngl this is a laugh. imperial's probably more natural for baking. but the govt's job is to help businesses thrive not pick a fight with rulers. who even knows what a firkin is these days.
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