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THE MOMENT THE MILE
WAS SAVED
COUNCIL SUED OVER
ILLEGAL METRIC SIGN
HOW TO CARRY ON
SELLING IN POUNDS &
OUNCES
LETTERS TO COUNCILS -
Forestry Commission.
OPINION POLL EVIDENCE
ARTICLES - Scruton
ARTICLES - Ouspensky
PRESS RELEASE -
Watford
ARM GAZETTEER
LETTERS TO COUNCILS -
St. Helens
LETTERS TO COUNCILS -
Bradnich Town Council
ARTICLES - Poem by
Stuarty Delvin
PRESS RELEASE -
Hastings
HOMEPAGE
PRESS RELEASE -
Toddington,
Bedfordshire
PRESS RELEASE -
Islington
CMS REPORT:
"WEIGHTS AND
MEASURES: BRITAIN'S
WAY AHEAD"
PROFORMA FOR
ILLEAGAL METRIC SIGNS
GALLERY
LINKS TO OTHER ANTI-EU
WEBSITES.
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Talk to People’s
Campaign to Keep the
Pound 15 July 2002
ACTIVE RESISTANCE TO
METRICATION
- Tony at work.
Main points:
1 WHY
Metric
plans – cost, disruption
Decimalisation
Metric
- litres, grams,
kilograms, now pint and
mile. 1980 Directive
Metrication of loose
goods – E.U. law
History of metric –
French revolution,
compulsion - France
1840s, resistance in U.S.
Disconnects us from human
traditions.
Popular support. ‘Weight
of Public Opinion’, ICM
survey
The
Law.
Traffic Signs Regulations
1994
Highways Act 1980
2 WHO
ARE WE?
Guard
the Yard campaign
First
meeting
Code
names. Hundredweight, Wun
Ton etc.
Join:
A Convert a distance
B Donate
C Buy a set of 10
postcards
3 WHAT
HAVE WE BEEN DOING, AND
WHERE HAVE WE BEEN DOING
IT?
Northampton
Islington
Kent
Ely
Portsmouth & Hastings
Annual
Social - Birmingham Canal
Network
1,500
demetrications
4 THE
FUTURE
More
conversions
‘Keep the
Mile’ Campaign
Direct
action – People’s
Campaign posters
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