Thanks to Harry’s Place for pointing me in the direction of an article in this mornings Observer informing us that The Un-Elected European Commission has ordered the UK government to announce a date when it will abolish the use of pints, miles and even Britain’s farmers’ acres. Well – we knew it was only a matter of time that the commitments of previous governments who promised this (knowing it would be SEP) would catch up with us.

Mine is not a call to save the beloved pint or to hang on to the cherished mile. I’m actually a closet metrifier (I think I just made that up) – even if the principles of metric measurement were formulated by the French. My mental agility with arithmetic yearns for the kilometre just as it was relieved by the decimalisation of our currency back in the 1970’s.

I reserve my ire for the Bureaucrats of Brussels issuing these pompous and irrelevant dictates. People who are elected by nobody to do a job the majority don’t really want them to do yet who have this huge power over a whole nation.

So – I have a dilemma. I approve of the adoption of the complete metric system but heartily disapprove of the European Commission telling me what I can and can’t do. Therefore, I call for a referendum on the issue and as Europe pokes it’s nose in, I will be forced to cut my nose off.

By the way – the title to this item is a quote from The Taming of the Shrew.