Hey! You Cowards and Dupes at the BBC, Telegraph Stop This Metrication By Stealth Who Asked You To Change To Kilometres From Miles? “has the Telegraph caved in to this slovenly, cowardly adoption of a change which nobody except a few Quislings and Petainistes want?” To: The Editor, Daily Telegraph From: Neil Winton Dear Sir, The BBC has decided that Britons will henceforth use kilometres not miles to measure distances, as part of its long-term plan to please Brussels and the European Union, undermine our culture and embrace the metric system. How else can you explain the BBC’s insistence on using kilometres to tell us how big the foot-and-mouth exclusion zone will be in England? This is no isolated incident. BBC reporters constantly use metres when the context demands yards and imperial measurements. And what kind of journalists wouldn’t automatically translate kilometres into miles if they were writing for a British audience? I suppose it could also be a way to cut costs. By using metric measurements, the BBC wouldn’t need to produce separate news items for its BBC 24 TV World News Service. After all you wouldn’t expect the BBC to defend our values. So what is the Daily Telegraph’s excuse? Saturday’s lead story on foot and mouth simply took the government statement, which presumably just used the E.U. metric measurement regulation. Were your sub-editors too lazy to do the calculation? Didn’t they bristle like I did, and I’ll wager several millions of my fellow citizens, at the use of kilometres? Or has the Daily Telegraph also caved in to this slovenly, cowardly adoption of a change which nobody has sought, except a few Quislings and Petainistes? Yours faithfully Neil Winton August 4, 2007 |
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