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Statecraft by Lady Thatcher, 2002
Britain and Europe - Time to renegotiate
.... It sometimes happens that almost overnight a course of action which has previously been dismissed as unthinkable becomes a matter of sheer commonsense.  I witnessed such a turnaround when as British Prime Minister after our 1979 election victory I led a government which up-ended Keynesian economic orthodoxy and substituted monetarist policies deemed unthinkable by the post-war political consensus.

Daily Mail Letters Page
Labour has the cheek to announce 'new powers preserving the pint and
the mile come into force today after the Government's success in Europe'.

It was public protest, lead largely by the Metric Martyrs and the
British Weights & Measures Association, that made the EU realise how
unpopular its was edict, that we were to be stopped from using
traditional measurements.

Our craven Government is merely meekly complying with the EU
retraction of needless regulation.

What's next? Will we need permission from the all-powerful EU to breathe?

>Michael Plumbe
>Hastings

Belfast Telegraph
By David Prosser
Gordon Brown often talks about how politicians must take tough decisions, but he won't have faced too many dilemmas like the one that's troubled Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in recent days.

 

The August Review
Globalism's effects are more advanced in Great Britain because of its affairs with the European Union. In this issue, Dr David Abbott, an English citizen and freedom-loving patriot, gives his personal account of what globalization has done and is doing to Great Britain. If globalism isn't effectively resisted, the United States is just a few short years behind the same fate.

Supplementary Indications
BWMA
Here is an excerpt of statutory instrument 3046 (our emphasis):
The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated
(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (b) in relation to units of measurement to be used for economic, health, safety, or administrative purposes, in exercise of the powers conferred by that subsection, makes the following Regulations:

Globepost
This is the first Christmas that anyone travelling on our motorways really couldn’t avoid signs measuring distance in – whisper it – kilometers.
Every 500 meters or so along just about every motorway – and some trunk roads – in Britain, one of these blue signs helpfully tells the the stranded, mobile-phone wielding, motorist not only which road and carriageway she’s on but how many kilometers she is along it. Not miles. Not even good old British furlongs or barleycorns (which is a shame). But evil revolutionary French kilometers.

Telegraph
2010 is the year that imperial measures would have ended, if they hadn't been vigorously defended, says Christopher Booker
We all might wish a happy New Year to John Gardner, director of the British Weights and Measures Association (BWMA), set up in 1995 in response to this column's coverage of the EU's determination to make Britain an exclusively metric country. In 2002, in deference to Brussels, Parliament nodded through two regulations which would have made it, as of last Friday, a criminal offence for businesses to make any reference whatever to non-metric weights and measures. To talk of a "quarterpounder" beefburger or a "15.4 inch" computer screen would have become illegal.

Politics.co.uk
Now we see the EU for what it is: secretive, anti-democratic and alien. Those who love Europe should oppose it.
By Ian Dunt
I'm Eurosceptic, not Europhobic. I don't see how the other side managed to claim the word Europhile. Just because they love the EU certainly doesn't mean they love Europe.
I'm Eurosceptic, and a Europhile. I'm in love with the place. After university, I went travelling around the continent for a year. I started in Calais, and made it to Beirut (I overshot a little) before flying home. I am a proud European. I don't care what the name of my currency is, I don't care about the metric martyrs. You can weigh my vegetables in some newfound alien unit system, but as long as I get what I pay for I'll be indifferent.

Gordon Brown apologises to gay Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for 'appalling' persecution
Daily Mail
By Ian Drury
Last updated at 2:53 PM on 11th September 2009
Gordon Brown last night issued a posthumous apology to Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for the 'appalling' way he was punished for being gay.
The Prime Minister said he was 'deeply sorry' for the inhumane treatment of the Cambridge mathematician  -  53 years after his death.
Thirty thousand people had signed a petition seeking an apology for Mr Turing, who was  credited by Winston Churchill with making the biggest single contribution to the Allied victory in World War II.