The implication is clear: that Johnson is announcing headline-catching policy for the umpteenth time in order to distract from the litany of failures revealed in the Sue Gray report.
Senior Scottish Tory Liz Smith also seemed unimpressed. Alongside an eyes emoji, [she wrote](https://nitter.net/mspliz/status/1530576499694239744): “I suppose the only upside is that my late mother’s (wonderful) recipes will be back in fashion…”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also had her say, writing: “To paraphrase – ‘those whom the gods seek to destroy they first make utterly ridiculous’.”
Political commentator Gerry Hassan [called the announcement](https://nitter.net/GerryHassan/status/1530671445663170560) “nostalgia nationalism”. He added: “With nothing to offer to deal with the crises of the moment. And no policies and ideas for the big issues or to speak to the future of the UK.”
Another commentator, Mujtaba Rahman, [wrote](https://nitter.net/Mij_Europe/status/1530588018330959873#m): “Not this old chestnut. Pretty desperate stuff. Prob explained by anxiety in No10 that more MPs are coming out every day against @BorisJohnson – they’re not as confident as they were immediately after Gray report was published.”
If the Tory MPs had any backbone, they’d surely have disposed of Johnson long ago.
I for one am looking forward to de-decimalisation. A good old fashioned common sense return to shillings, pence and farthings etc.
Pretty soon we’ll have the empire re established
/s
Boris is 57. State schools shifted to primarily using the metric system in 1974 (although some were a little slow)
Surely the public schools wouldn’t have been drastically behind? You’d have thought they’d have given them a high quality education suitable for the age.
Either way, we’ve been metric for practically his whole life and I can’t imagine he has any attachment to ye olde preposterous measuring system.
It’s as if they only care about one demographic or something…
She should laugh. She has created a financial blackhole that will cripple Scotland for generations.
Distraction Distraction Distraction. Out!
If this happens I’m pointedly asking staff what this is “in real units”.
I’m not going to use base fourteen, twelve and sixteen at the same time to work out how much flour is in a bag just because a bunch of flag shagging boomers think thats the only way I can feel British again.
I don’t have the fucking patience to deal with Harry potter units. Why can’t we use traditional metric units, like we did in the old days? Things were better then.
This is a shit idea. The disru……
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Of course, as long as Boris gets his way, it won’t matter. Even though we have spent decades using metric and switching over is just gonna to cause a shit ton of issues, he doesn’t give a fuck.
>While it is still legal to price goods in pounds and ounces, these have to be displayed alongside the price in grams and kilograms.
So what is it exactly they’re going to announce?
That the price no longer has to be displayed in grams / kilograms?
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BORIS Johnson has been roundly mocked for announcing the return of imperial measures for the gazillionth time.
Plans to take the “Brexit opportunity” to bring back pounds and ounces were announced in [September](https://www.thenational.scot/news/19586326.uk-government-take-brexit-opportunity-bring-back-imperial-measures/), in the [New Year](https://www.thenational.scot/news/19819466.boris-johnson-hails-return-pounds-ounces-key-success-brexit/), in [February](https://www.thenational.scot/news/19947344.review-economic-benefits-return-imperial-measures-mocked/), and [now again](https://www.thenational.scot/news/20173387.boris-johnson-announce-revival-imperial-measurements/) apparently to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. Harking back to the bygone days of empire is something of a hobby for the UK’s regime after all.
The announcement has done little to persuade anyone that the criminal in No 10 should stay there – other than Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross, who seems to be under the impression that [Johnson is single-handedly](https://www.thenational.scot/news/20165550.douglas-ross-calls-boris-johnson-resign-ukraine-war/) fighting a war in Ukraine.
But other, less sycophantic Tories, aren’t impressed by Downing Street’s latest effort.
“This announcement seems to come round earlier every year,” former Tory MP and secretary of state David Gauke [wrote on Twitter](https://nitter.net/DavidGauke/status/1530585392239493120).
Tobias Ellwood, an influential Conservative backbencher and former minister, [wrote](https://nitter.net/Tobias_Ellwood/status/1530662026258919424): “I see the Dead Cat Committee has met again…”
The implication is clear: that Johnson is announcing headline-catching policy for the umpteenth time in order to distract from the litany of failures revealed in the Sue Gray report.
Senior Scottish Tory Liz Smith also seemed unimpressed. Alongside an eyes emoji, [she wrote](https://nitter.net/mspliz/status/1530576499694239744): “I suppose the only upside is that my late mother’s (wonderful) recipes will be back in fashion…”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also had her say, writing: “To paraphrase – ‘those whom the gods seek to destroy they first make utterly ridiculous’.”
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>>To paraphrase – ‘those whom the gods seek to destroy they first make utterly ridiculous’
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>> — Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) [May 28, 2022](https://nitter.net/NicolaSturgeon/status/1530616986601922562)
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Others queued up to mock the backward-looking Tory government, claiming that the return of rationing was sure to be announced in the near future.
SNP MP Richard Thomson [quipped](https://nitter.net/RThomsonMP/status/1530582002797318144): “He’ll be reintroducing Rickets next.”
His colleague Pete Wishart [wrote](https://nitter.net/PeteWishart/status/1530597446828576768): “The benefits of Brexit are never ending… Next will be shillings and tanners and children up chimneys.”
Labour MP Angela Eagle [added](https://nitter.net/angelaeagle/status/1530575758120345601): “Literally attempting to weaponise nostalgia for a time few can remember and even fewer wish to return to – pathetic.”
Political commentator Gerry Hassan [called the announcement](https://nitter.net/GerryHassan/status/1530671445663170560) “nostalgia nationalism”. He added: “With nothing to offer to deal with the crises of the moment. And no policies and ideas for the big issues or to speak to the future of the UK.”
Another commentator, Mujtaba Rahman, [wrote](https://nitter.net/Mij_Europe/status/1530588018330959873#m): “Not this old chestnut. Pretty desperate stuff. Prob explained by anxiety in No10 that more MPs are coming out every day against @BorisJohnson – they’re not as confident as they were immediately after Gray report was published.”
If the Tory MPs had any backbone, they’d surely have disposed of Johnson long ago.
*By* The Jouker
More on Johnson hijacking the Queen’s Jubilee in order to get ‘[Operation Save Big Dog](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-operation-save-big-dog_uk_61e1c41ae4b0c6802ee67699)’ back on its four paws…
> [Mij: A tale of two Brexits](https://nitter.net/Mij_Europe/status/1530836987451789312)
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>[Alicia Kearns: Not one constituent, ever…](https://nitter.net/aliciakearns/status/1530799084327653376)
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>[DmitryOpines: I would never dream of being THIS condescending.](https://nitter.net/DmitryOpines/status/1530828918894247937)
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>[Mail: Queen jailed in EU prison for saying she was English](https://nitter.net/StevePeers/status/1530853013383938053)
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>[Steve Peers: An earlier fact check of today’s Mail lie](https://nitter.net/StevePeers/status/1530844289718157314)
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>[Edwin Hayward: A story that has come back to life again and again, more times than Jason Voorhees.](https://nitter.net/edwinhayward/status/1530876467114123264)
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>[Nick Tyrone: They went looking for Brexit benefits. …](https://nitter.net/NicholasTyrone/status/1530806295833497600)
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>[LBC: a ‘total distraction from the rubbish Brexit deal’ they negotiated. You agree?](https://nitter.net/LBC/status/1530911900032282624)
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>[Tim Farron: Don’t FUCKING care…](https://nitter.net/timfarron/status/1530851050609168386#m)
> SNP MP Richard Thomson quipped: “He’ll be reintroducing Rickets next.”
Oh, I think Tories [already started](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/gout-scurvy-rickets-rise-hospital-2580338) with that programme.
I for one am looking forward to de-decimalisation. A good old fashioned common sense return to shillings, pence and farthings etc.
Pretty soon we’ll have the empire re established
/s
Boris is 57. State schools shifted to primarily using the metric system in 1974 (although some were a little slow)
Surely the public schools wouldn’t have been drastically behind? You’d have thought they’d have given them a high quality education suitable for the age.
Either way, we’ve been metric for practically his whole life and I can’t imagine he has any attachment to ye olde preposterous measuring system.
It’s as if they only care about one demographic or something…
She should laugh. She has created a financial blackhole that will cripple Scotland for generations.
Distraction Distraction Distraction. Out!
If this happens I’m pointedly asking staff what this is “in real units”.
I’m not going to use base fourteen, twelve and sixteen at the same time to work out how much flour is in a bag just because a bunch of flag shagging boomers think thats the only way I can feel British again.
I don’t have the fucking patience to deal with Harry potter units. Why can’t we use traditional metric units, like we did in the old days? Things were better then.
This is a shit idea. The disru……
​
Of course, as long as Boris gets his way, it won’t matter. Even though we have spent decades using metric and switching over is just gonna to cause a shit ton of issues, he doesn’t give a fuck.
>While it is still legal to price goods in pounds and ounces, these have to be displayed alongside the price in grams and kilograms.
So what is it exactly they’re going to announce?
That the price no longer has to be displayed in grams / kilograms?