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Do not legislate for imperial-only measurements on goods

Submitted by Rebecca Jones on Sunday 29th May 2022

Published on Wednesday 1st June 2022

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 15th December 2022

Signatures: 5,722

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EU ~ feet ~ Imperial ~ Imperial units ~ Metric ~ part ~ People ~ Remove ~ Sale ~ sense ~ Switch ~ system ~ U-turn ~ U-turns ~ Young people

Petition Action

Do not legislate for imperial-only measurements on goods

Petition Details

We want the government to u-turn on its proposal to review the EU ban on markings and sales in imperial units and its proposal to legislate on this. Just 3 other countries solely use the imperial system and the UK would be an outlier should it switch to it.

Additional Information

As part of the review, the Government said it would legislate "in due course" to remove the ban on imperial-only markings carried over from the EU. We can’t have imperial-only markings. Young people like me have been raised to use the metric system and very few, if any, understand the imperial system.

The imperial system is hard to understand where increasing measurements have little in common, such as 12 inches in a feet to 1680 feet in a mile. The metric system makes much more sense.


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