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I secretly feel this is the real reason for Brexit (avoiding the metric system).


The metric system is everywhere in Britain. Brexit was about returning to and retaining common law, as Roger Scuton so eloquently lays out in this speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyLJYW0_F38


Which? Returning to, or retaining?

I wonder if he'd lived, he'd have changed his opinion from 4 years ago, given the dogs breakfast that is the current transition process, run by a non-representative collection of opportunists.


> Which? Returning to, or retaining?

They're not mutually exclusive.

> I wonder if he'd lived, he'd have changed his opinion

He did appear to be making his decision based on principle, not process, so I doubt it.


I did watch the video you shared, btw, but I didn't feel his argument was especially persuasive.

With ~45 years or EEC/EC/EU membership to refer to, there were zero examples offered where this ostensible move away from common law had actually manifested, let alone in a negative way.

Actually, I thought his position seemed to be the standard nebulously nostalgic nationalism.

I don't recall common law being a talking point in any of the leave / remain discussions and marketing. Cameron originally couched the question purely around economics -- which unfortunately made the public debate, such as it was, vulnerable to grossly influential outright lies around money. The famous '£350m a week’ lie, f.e.

This then seemed to morph (or was manufactured) into some kind of national identity existential crisis.

Perhaps I read it all wrong though.




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