Real reason for Brexit

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binka

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If financial parity was the requirement a sure fire way to achieve that would have been for gold and silver to be the only tender and everyone carry a set of hand held scales to weigh coins against each other.

As long as they weren't Reuben Heaton Lieweights!

We'd all be there, still waiting for them to settle long after whatever commodity was being weighed ceased to be legal tender :D
 

john step

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How about this anomaly then. We and the continentals buy tyre sizes that are measured in inches for the wheel size and mm for the width.

You can buy a pound of conserve(jam) and other foods in France, and Spanish plumbing in 1/2 and 3/4 which are in fact inches.

Also in Spain windscreen wipers can be in inches.

Perhaps they have seen the light:D:wh
 

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Most anglere use ten, eleven, twelve foot rods and longer but poles are always metres???.
Reminds me when I was a student years ago when the lecturer told us that "from next year everything is going to be the new metric system" and a wag at the back called out " uh, thats nowt, weve had gas meters at ar rouse for yonks" !.:D:D:D
 
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