Aside from the whole tone of this article on the disgustingly pro-EU Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation’s website – exhibit 1 me’lud

The government is acting to end the prosecution of so-called "metric martyrs" - traders who continue to sell goods using only imperial measures

I am frankly aghast at the news that:

a) once-Great Britain has such a thing as the Department for Innovation, Universities, Skills & Innovations – that sounds to me like another load of jobsworths, living high on the hog while on the taxpayers nickel

and

b) the aforementioned jobsworths have the temerity to think that they have a say in whether your humble correspondent buys a pound of apples or not.

However, putting aside the fact that all of these public sector spongers should have been culled at their desks years ago, why exactly does it take the no doubt very diligent members of the aforementioned government department "months" to do anything?

The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills said Innovations Secretary John Denham would introduce new guidelines within months that would prevent local authorities from taking traders to court

This sort of thing drives me mad. It fills me with resolve to get back on a plane to Blighty & set up a market stall which only sells in Imperial Measures. If some yellow jacketed clipboard wielding trading standards officer had the temerity to come slithering up to me, they would be given the following options:

1. Purchase produce in a measure that has served stout bulldogs well, that we know, understand & love - even buying things by the pound is probably a offence in Brown's Britain, let alone selling them... or

2. Make an early morning appointment to come & visit me at home. I will be waiting…