Hmm... what other country uses imperial measurements?
Moving to Imperial measurements would enable the government to sweeten that beloved free trade deal with the US they've been dreaming of. If this Imperial Measurements shite goes through, look forward to chlorinated chicken.
Hmm... what other country uses imperial measurements?
Moving to Imperial measurements would enable the government to sweeten that beloved free trade deal with the US they've been dreaming of. If this Imperial Measurements shite goes through, look forward to chlorinated chicken.
What's very funny about this though is that USA doesn't technically use imperial units in any meaningful capacity. The country signed up the metric system in every meaningful event such as engineering, weighing of goods, scientific study etc to keep up with everyone else, but has bizarre laws that allows the population to convert everything to Imperial.
So all the goods, engineering projects and such? Metric system. They just convert everything to Imperial where people see it. The standard against which metric measurements are, ahem, emperically measured (the weight of a certain substance and the width of a certain number of atoms or something, I forgot), they are signed up to that on the international stage.
Sure, some tradespeople and shops may live in the dark ages Roman era and use imperial but in a official capacity the country actually runs on metric.
So for example. An American inch is defined by the metric equivalent with some ridiculous number of digits, but it is still a metric measurement. It's just expressed differently.
England would end up working in the same way, because metric makes sense divisible by itself and in factors of whole numbers and denominations of 10 fingers, whereas imperial is based on a made up average of human body parts and some other insane things, that obviously vary, like feet. Hence, those are "proofed" by the metric system everywhere else and basically pointless everywhere else.
Had a 2 hour queue at passport control coming in to Lisbon, while the EU quick scan passport booths stood empty right next to said queue. Thanks brexit voters!
Victor Mildew wrote:Had a 2 hour queue at passport control coming in to Lisbon, while the EU quick scan passport booths stood empty right next to said queue. Thanks brexit voters!
A group of unionist politicians had challenged the protocol in judicial review proceedings, claiming it was unlawful because it conflicted with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and the Acts of Union.
But the court rejected their challenge on all grounds on Monday.
The case was an appeal of a ruling delivered by the High Court last year.
The protocol was agreed by the UK and EU to ensure free movement of trade across the Irish land border after Brexit.
The court found the Withdrawal Agreement Act, which includes the protocol, did conflict with the 1800 Acts of Union in respect of free trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.
However the court added the Withdrawal Agreement lawfully modified the Acts of Union.
The lady chief justice said the Acts of Union had not been repealed but one section, Article 6, now has to be read subject to the Withdrawal Agreement Act.
The court also rejected the argument the protocol had changed the constitutional status of Northern Ireland as defined in the Good Friday Agreement.
Furthermore, the court found that the Northern Ireland secretary did have the power to change Stormont's usual cross-community voting mechanism.
Normally, Stormont must approve controversial issues by a cross-community vote, but the protocol will be subject to a straight-majority vote.
The court found the Northern Ireland secretary had the power to do this on two grounds: that it was necessary to reflect the will of Parliament in implementing the Withdrawal Agreement Act and that it concerned international relations, which is not a devolved matter.
Further areas of challenge concerning human rights law and EU law were also rejected.
I guess the only people still supporting Brexit are the thick strawberry floats who think it will stop Ukrainians coming here.
That's because they still to this day think it was the EU who controlled our immigration policy and borders. They won't be told and never will be.
Any decent person can be sucked into a false narrative, especially those spun by people in positions of power and control over the media. People shouldn't have to investigate/catch out authority to get to the truth. It's a bitter pill to swallow, accepting that corruption is just standard practice.
I guess the only people still supporting Brexit are the thick strawberry floats who think it will stop Ukrainians coming here.
That's because they still to this day think it was the EU who controlled our immigration policy and borders. They won't be told and never will be.
Any decent person can be sucked into a false narrative, especially those spun by people in positions of power and control over the media. People shouldn't have to investigate/catch out authority to get to the truth. It's a bitter pill to swallow, accepting that corruption is just standard practice.
I accepted that in 2016.
But we are now almost 6 years on from the referendum and idiots are still parroting bullshit that was debunked years ago.
The information is easily available. The only people left that are ignoring the truth are either doing so deliberately or are so bloody stupid that they they will never see it.
Victor Mildew wrote:Had a 2 hour queue at passport control coming in to Lisbon, while the EU quick scan passport booths stood empty right next to said queue. Thanks brexit voters!
I had the exact opposite scenario in Barcelona on Friday. The EU one was rammed but the non EU one was virtually empty
I think that's the first time it's happened in the three times I've been here.
