After seeing them, you can return to this main site for other texts and more background information. The British Weights and Measures Association opposes wanton abandonment of our traditional weights and measures, and asks for support in a campaign of opposition to compulsory metrication. Individuals should be free to use in trade those units which they prefer and find most convenient, and likewise manufacturers, shops and their customers. There is no justification here for denying freedom of choice.
Metrication is unnecessary and unpopular.
Most people do not want these changes. Despite years of metric teaching, the findings of national surveys in the last few years are that the overwhelming majority of people normally think, not in metric units, but in miles, feet, inches, gallons, pints, pounds and ounces, and that they find these units more convenient. The cost of metrication runs into many hundreds of millions of pounds and, inevitably, it generally has to be passed on to consumers. It is crippling to many small businesses and some specialist suppliers. Small petrol stations have closed as a result.