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      1. Maybe we wouldn't have such issues with spelling this out if we'd properly committed to the metric system instead of the half and half nonsense that the UK currently has. @10DowningStreet/1263761942424018944
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      1. Change all the road signs to kilometres and kilometres-per-hour. 2. Get rid of pints. 3. Success.
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    Standing as a single-issue candidate in the next election and the issue is 'Fully implement the metric system in the UK'.
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      Look how long this has been unfinished. A lot of us are still at home. Let's crack on and finish metrication so that when the lockdown ends, if anyone asks, we'll just say 'It's always been this way.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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        Guess which shitty and regressive political party is responsible for the lack of completion of metrication in the UK? Specifically Tory MP Sally Oppenheim made metrication voluntary and then the Metrication Board was wound up in Thatcher's Bonfire of the Quangos.
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          Cool how I still find reasons to hate Thatcher even years after her death.