Extract from Lords consideration of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”) (Amendment) Order 2020 - May 20
Thursday, 21 May 2020 08:44
Lord Liddle (Lab):...We will all remember the great brouhaha of the
early 2000s about the “Metric Martyrs”, the refusal of traders in
some of our markets to go along with these standards. They were
taken to court, and this was described by the Daily
Mail as the EU’s “bureaucratic bullying”. I think it was
described by many people who were opponents of the EU at the time
as a classic example of the EU bullying its way into something that
good Brits wanted to have nothing to...Request free trial
(Lab):...We will all
remember the great brouhaha of the early 2000s about the “Metric
Martyrs”, the refusal of traders in some of our markets to go along
with these standards. They were taken to court, and this was
described by the Daily Mail as the EU’s
“bureaucratic bullying”. I think it was described by many people
who were opponents of the EU at the time as a classic example of
the EU bullying its way into something that good Brits wanted to
have nothing to do with. What makes the row about the Metric
Martyrs quite poignant is that, of course, one of the people who
were greatly involved in it was a man called Mr Steve Thoburn, a
trader in Sunderland. It was a case involving Sunderland City
Council that brought this
issue to prominence, and of course Sunderland was the city that
voted overwhelmingly for Brexit...
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