"I’m retiring as an MEP at the end of this month for personal reasons. But the final straw of EU interference has been the ban on our using acres. So I’m going to find Gert Pottering in the Parliament next week and I’m going to kick him where it hurts. Leave him with two acres to remember me by."
UKIP MEP Graham Booth, via Tim Worstall
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Got another quote of the day for you.
'Iain Dale and Quildo are propagadists dressed up as entertainment'.
Goto www.labourhome.org/story/2008/9/6/65654/75626
to read this 'wisdom' from Labourhome
It wasn't Europe that banned acres (or pounds/inches etc). It was our dear own Civil Service and Parliament. (The EU just wanted things to be available in metric too.)
It's been an establishment policy for 50 years or more to force us to stop using Imperial units and to impose identity cards on us. In ZaNULab they simply found MPs stupid enough to go along with them. The EU was simply used as cover.
And what is wrong with acres that so upsets the EU Parliament? Is it because they are ashamed of their countries (and by definition, their ancestors/living relations)actions between 1933 and 1945? IE for many, but not all, collaboration? So they try to eliminate the culture of the only European country that stood up against the darkness.
To me metric units represent the units of totalitarian States - Napoleon and Bismark, and I say "No, no, no Delores"
I find imperial units hard to work with, so I wouldn't be sorry to see them go. If people really want to annoy the EU, though, how about going one better than the rest of Europe and adopting SI units? :-)
Speed limits would be in metres per second, energy values on food would be in kilojoules rather than Calories, and electricity would be billed in megajoules rather than kilowatt hours.
I would just like to make the point that Graham Booth is a genuine, honourable man. He represented his constituents well and was, without a shadow of doubt, the best asset UKIP had, especially in the South West.
He was very loyal to Knapman etc but never received the same loyalty in return.
If he is ertiring due to ill health I wish him well but I also wish him a long retirement.
It is a pity that the Conservatives of Torbay missed out on a good man.
I suppose Booth is going to 'hectare' Gert first...
God, I hope Booth really does kick Gert!
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