BRITISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN THE EUROPEAN EMPIRE

Dateline: l6th February 2000

Since 1st January 2000 the European Union, through the Labour Government, is trying to make it a criminal offence for the British people to use British weights and measures.

Why should the British people (none of whose political parties were ever elected on a manifesto to change our weights and measures) use kilos and centimetres to buy from other British people in British shops? This has nothing to do with the "Single European Market" - so why is it happening? When a people are conquered - as the British people have been conquered by the European Union - the conqueror makes them speak his language, every day, so they know their place!

Our British weights and measures are used internationally. Aircraft heights are in feet, computer printers all work in inches, the USA with the world's largest economy uses feet and inches, pounds and ounces and even German plumbers use inches!

But the Euro-poodles in the Tory, Labour and Liberal Parties don't give a damn. They would rather turn you, the voters, into criminals than disobey their real masters in Brussels.

POSTSCRIPT 2002:

A case against the Sunderland fruit and vegetable trader Steve Thorburn has just been adjudicated in the Appeal Court. The case was lost, as many of the more informed analysts of the European legislation concerned had predicted. However in the judgement of Lord Justice Laws there is much for which democrats and patriots should be thankful. Laws asserted that at any time the British Parliament could retrieve any of the powers it has ceded to the European Union. The judge also confirmed that constitutional Acts could not be repealed except by explicit repeal – precisely the case made by Rodney Atkinson and Norris McWhirter in their 1993 Treason cases.

For a detailed analysis of why this case has put the whole question of British membership of the European Union in doubt see www.southmoltondeclaration.org