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Speaking to the Italian newspaper la Repubblica, the Mayor of London outlined a roadmap for closer ties, including returning to both the customs union and the single market.
Sir Sadiq, who played a leading role in resisting the UK’s departure from the EU, now believes there is a route back to membership.
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He highlighted Brexit’s detrimental impact, stating: “I see on a daily basis the damage Brexit has done to not just London, but to Londoners, the damage economically, socially and culturally.” Sir Sadiq was unequivocal: “I’m quite clear in terms of what needs to happen, which is, we should join the European Union.”
The mayor cited the election of US President Donald Trump, growing global instability, and the passage of time as reasons to revisit the issue, arguing “the facts have changed” and “the evidence has changed”. He insisted: “We should, as a Labour Party, fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment, a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union. I think it’s inevitable.”
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No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.
tbf engineers were using decimal inches (as thou or mil) basically forever.
Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.
I just realised, the computer part is ironic since traditional fractions are a binary series. In binary 0.1 is 1/2, 0.01 is 1/4, 0.001 is 1/8, etc.
Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.