UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements

Once you know it’s an explicit strategy, you can watch for it and call it out when you see they’ve chucked a dead cat.

OT: Can I ask a question about something that has long puzzled me about Brexit?

Note: I'm not asking about whether or not Brexit was a good idea. No matter where you stand on that, let's assume for the sake of argument that there were terrific arguments for both staying in the EU and leaving.

My puzzlement concerns the specific question asked on the 2016 referendum, which was

> Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

with the options being remain or leave.

If you wanted the UK to stay in the EU, then clearly "remain" was the right choice for you.

Remaining didn't require the UK to do anything, so if you voted "remain" you were voting for something with a highly predictable outcome.

Leaving, on the other hand, requires a lot of action over the next several years. There were many quite different ways a post-EU UK could turn out, and much disagreement among the people who wanted to leave as to which of those ways they wanted. There could be changes of government over the years it takes to implement so even if you were confident that the people now in power would work toward an implementation of the kind of Brexit you wanted, they might not be the ones in power when it comes to actually finishing the thing.

If you wanted to leave then it seems to me that the best choice would still be to vote "remain" because this particular referendum was terrible. Instead, work to elect politicians who would offer a better referendum. Something like this:

> Should the United Kingdom develop a concrete proposal to leave the EU and then hold a referendum on that, and if that referendum passes negotiate a final deal to leave the EU, and then hold a final referendum on whether to implement that final deal?

I’m American and feel like I live in the “in-between” too. I measure people in ft and lbs. I measure wood in ft and inches. I design 3D objects in cm and mm unless I’m building in wood, in which case I’m back to feet and inches. I measure speed in miles per hour. I use tools mostly in metric but sometimes in SAE (depending on where it’s made and what it is).

For the same reason they doubled down on trickle-down economics: only dim bulbs in Westminster.

Maybe Kwarteng and Rees-Mogg had a private wager to see who would be the first to be relieved of their post?

I lived in London and Castletown (IoM) for years and only ever felt like C was used. I remember distinctly because of how often I had to force myself to make the the calculation for conversion between the two whenever any topic of temperature came up early in my time there.