The government is bringing back imperial measures for the Jubilee – 21 votes of no confidence
12.
I hope that everyone wanting the return to imperial weights and measures can multiply 1lb 12oz by 3!
— mary beard (@wmarybeard) May 29, 2022
13.
Boris to bring back imperial measures like killing dissidents with a Death Star.
— Andy Ryan (@ItsAndyRyan) May 29, 2022
14.
I'll have a bushel of bunting and half a peck of flags please. https://t.co/m9wq2QB1iS
— Pengy (@IncognitoPengy) May 29, 2022
15.
Smoking back in pubs!
White dog shit return!
You can give your Secretary a slap on the bum again!
All paedophiles to be downgraded to ‘nice bloke, wouldn’t leave ‘im with the kids’! https://t.co/5HXMhIVbGv— Tom Neenan (@TNeenan) May 28, 2022
16.
We were told Brexit was about a brave new dawn. It was always a mutton headed backwards looking pile of shine.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) May 28, 2022
17.
Like a smoker desperately trying to find fag ends down the back of the sofa. https://t.co/Z62KSbvbWC
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 28, 2022
18.
I will scream this from the rooftops, this is literally just to allow brands to rip you off, a pound is less than half a kilo but they'll charge you the same. https://t.co/2X2chxMiKs
— Another Angry Woman (@stavvers) May 29, 2022
19.
People may question whether bringing back imperial measures is a waste of money, but we estimate that it will only cost twelve guineas, two shillings and thruppence ha'penny.
— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) May 28, 2022
20.
PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE THIS STOP https://t.co/DoU4FF8tJF
— Siobhan Benita 🇺🇦🌻 (@SiobhanBenita) May 28, 2022
21.
Imperial measures are ridiculous. We no longer have an empire and soon we'll have nothing left to measure.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) May 29, 2022
To sum up –
The ‘imperial measures’ Brexit ‘win’ has to be the most tragically little-English-regressive-small-minded-pathetic-unglobal-idiotic-nostalgia-soaked-irrelevant-humiliatingly-twatty-old-fart bullshit ever to have emerged from this festering pile of utter failure.
— sarah murphy (@13sarahmurphy) May 29, 2022
Or this –
what use are ounces when you don't have the pounds to pay for food in the first place?
In a cost of living crisis, this Government offers you a blue passport and a GCSE maths question as sustenance.
Don't let them get away with it. https://t.co/BcPKfMbUi7
— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) May 29, 2022
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