Salvia JILLY COOPER

Brit Weights & Evaluates Association - Open Correspondence about the Prime Minister.

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --  
  21 Patrons and Honorary Account holders of the Brit Weights and Evaluates  Association have documented an open correspondence about the Prime Minister, Tony  Blair, strict which he get yourself a reversal of the Eu directive  which threatens a last mortality blow to our usual weights and evaluates.  
  These winners of the imperial system encompass: Jilly Cooper and  Jools The netherlands, Sir Tim Grain and Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sandy Gall and  Alexander McCall Smith, Sir Patrick Moore and Prof. Richard Holmes,  Candida Lycett Green and Christopher Booker, Antony Worrall Thompson and  Christopher Martin-Jenkins.  
  Ever because 1995 we've been obligated (by Eu Unification directive  80/181 as amended by 89/617) to weigh and cost all merchandise in  metric evaluates, but we're able to at the minimum show the imperial same  alongside. But afterwards salvia 31 Dec 2009 (by Statutory Instruments 55 &  85/2001) even which directly to use what are called 'ancillary  indicators' would be abolished. It is going to turn into a breach of the law to  make any mention of toes and inch, lbs and ounce, pints and  gallons in explaining commodities on the market.  
  Here 's the text of the correspondence dated 21 April 2003 and full list of  signatories:  
  An Open Correspondence about the Prime Minister: The Rt Hon. A C L Blair Computer MP  
  Obligatory METRICATION - THE 2010 Due date  
  Dear Prime Minister  
  As Patrons and Honorary Account holders of the Brit Weights and Evaluates  Association, we were pretty pleased to listen of the emphatic assurances  given by the Assistant of State for Transport, Alistair Sweetheart, all through  BBC's 'Question Time' on 23 Feb, that there's nil  intention to substitute miles by kms or mph by km/h on road signs;  as well as happier to read the announcement by Gunter Verheugen, Eu  Commissioner for Business and Industry, which "I'm not stressing  the united kingdom salviasalvia  to go metric. Only when I am in workshop we won't touch the  downside. Full halt. salvia Personally, i have a great number of compassion for the pint and  the mile in great britain. Truly, what's the trouble?"  
  Accordingly, we entrust which, whilst guarding the pint and the  mile, additionally, you will assure a upcoming for the pound and ounces. The European might,  as it has been doing because 1995,. alongside but  subordinate about the cardinal metric marking - yet even which far lower use,  really just to offer more details for the user's  benefit, is to be abolished from 1 Jan 2010.  
  Hence, it is inadequate which all commodities should be weighed and priced in  metric evaluates; in less than 4 years from at present it definitely a perpetrator  offence even to state imperial evaluates! This is repression purely for  its own sake. It is certainly no greater than a malevolent combat on our ethnic  legacy and even on our democracy.  
  Not merely do nearly all of the guys n't want a metric  monopoly, a broad rate don't even know metric units and -  if which proposed legislation is enforced - would be gloomy and hungry of the  needful shopper defence afforded by display of imperial  equivalents. Are going to you therefore, pls implement to secure a irreversible  derogation for utilization of ancillary clues?  
  Yours faithfully   

    TREVOR BAILEY
    CHRISTOPHER BOOKER

    ROY FAIERS
    SIR RANULPH FIENNES
    SANDY GALL
    CANDIDA LYCETT GREEN
    JOOLS The netherlands
    Prof. RICHARD HOLMES
    Vice Admiral SIR LOUIS LE BAILLY
    Dr JAMES LE FANU
    CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS
    LORD MONSON
    SIR PATRICK MOORE
    WILLIAM POOLE
    SIR TIM Grain
    ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
    ANDREW ROBERTS
    QUINLAN TERRY
    SIR ROWLAND WHITEHEAD Bt.
    ANTONY WORRALL THOMPSON

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