And now Cameron has come out in favour of a return to teaching Imperial units in schools. Seriously. That's just bizarre... in the modern interconnected world, where damn near every manufactured item is assembled from parts made in multiple countries, the British Prime Minister wants to adopt an obsolescent system of measurements that nobody else uses. Wow.
Along with the move to withdraw from Europe and the rise of UKIP, Britain is starting to appear scarily backward-looking and insular. And yet every single British person I know - to a person - is dismayed by this. Do I just know people from a small minority, I wonder? Does the mainstream of British public opinion support all this? And if not, why hasn't Labour staked out a distinct set of policies for itself instead of fighting over the same ground?
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