The reporter -- clearly a EU-loving, globalist -- sniffed that the U.K. was practically the only place in the world that does not use the metric system.
We Americans are not France or Canada so we don't have to get our panties in a wad everytime someone seems to "overlook" us. But the fact remains that given the U.S. footprint in the world economy, it is absurd to make such a statement, pretending not to notice that we are not metric.
Of course, BBC readers are not "reporters" at all. They work for the ministry of propaganda.
I'm pretty sure I heard a Radio Canada International piece on this guy.
The Euroweenies were giving him a hard time because if someone asked for a pound of meat, he'd sell them a pound of meat.
"Tony Blair is only doing this so he could be president of the EU when he's done here."