You know, I've never seen those arguments put before but they do
seem eminently sensible! The EU has been responsible for all
sorts of nonsense over the years.

Decimilasation and metrication had nothing to do with the EU. They are
simply sensible and time saving changes that happen to throw out the
unworkable mishmash of Roman and medieval units used before. Imperial units
are all defined as fixed proportions of metric SI units now anyway. Why not
use the real thing?

Christian.