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That's as good an explanation as any. Whenever I read stories like this, I imagine a bunch of mangy reporters waiting for some rumpled Brit or German to wander onto a HUGE stage with a massive "EU UBER ALLES" flag as a backdrop, with microphone feedback at every gap in the announcement.

I keep waiting for someone to tell me, "You actually thought they were serious? Oh, no, poor boy, you misunderstand--this is just a little play we let the socialists put on so they think they won."

Whenever I read stories like this, I imagine a bunch of mangy reporters waiting for some rumpled Brit or German to wander onto a HUGE stage with a massive "EU UBER ALLES" flag as a backdrop, with microphone feedback at every gap in the announcement.

I think that vision still holds true in many ways. Our British Friends still have to contend with many insane laws forced down their throats by the EU. Did you know that the EU forced a law into being that requires the curvature of a banana to be regulated? Yes, they have to conform to a specific, legally specified degree of curvature. The pic of the banana seller in the Daily Mail article was no accident, I'll reckon, but was chosen as a reminder.

I keep waiting for someone to tell me, "You actually thought they were serious? Oh, no, poor boy, you misunderstand--this is just a little play we let the socialists put on so they think they won."

hehe! They're trying to tell you that right now, as well as blaming it all on the Tories:

From the article:

"Brussels granted a series of derogations, and last night claimed that the decision to go metric had actually been taken by a Tory government and supported by its Labour successor."