Peoples Campaign to Keep the Pound
Talk to People’s Campaign to Keep the Pound 15 July 2002
ACTIVE RESISTANCE TO METRICATION –
Main points:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - THE FUTURE?
More conversions
Keep the Mile Campaign
Direct action People’s Campaign posters