Members of the Association were shocked to hear this advice. They are following the democratic process to persuade Parliament to get the criminal law removed from metrication. Dr North explained that the metrication regulations were enacted under Consumer Protection legislation but had completely the opposite effect. The huge cost of compulsory metrication is borne by consumers. Big businesses encouraged metrication because they know it means more market share, thousands of small traders are forced out by the heavy costs of conversion.
Metrication means people have lost all sense of value.
Once, a penny on a gallon of petrol was headline news. Not any more because we have no idea of the baseline cost. In fact the price has rocketed with hardly a murmur against. Once a pound jar of jam was 454 grams, then 450 grams and even 400 grams, but the price remained the same. This is not consumer protection.