There have been posting on this site before regarding the case of market trader, Janet Devers, who was prosecuted by Hackney Trading Standards for not complying with the EU’s enforced metrication rules. See HERE, HERE & HERE.A total of twelve charges were brought against her for doing nothing more offensive than supplying her customers with their goods purchased from her in the weights and measures they know and wanted. Like most decent British people they find the continental metric system alien and confusing, they cannot relate to it. Despite this the mad officials at the Hackney soviet insisted on bringing charges.
There were twelve charges in all, eight were tried in the magistrates court where she was convicted, and the other four were due to be tried in a jury trial. Mrs Devers has put in an appeal against the convictions and felt confident that no jury would ever convict here for selling goods in traditional imperial weights. It seems the devious Labour apparachiks at Hackney Council were of the same opinion and have decided to drop these other four charges rather than face a humiliating defeat.
They obviously know that as soon as you bring in ordinary decent people on a jury their mad schemes will be rejected in the face of common sense. This, sadly, denies Janet her day in court and the backing of her peers which would have strengthened the campaign against EU enforced metrication.
Hackney Council will still not drop its opposition to her appeal against the charges already made against her in the magistrates courts. Neil Herron of the Metric Martyrs campaign which has been supporting Janet Devers throughout her ordeal at the Hackney inquisition, said: “It’s about time Hackney did the decent thing, put their hands up and apologised to Mrs Devers.” Sadly, the left wing nutters at Hackney Council wouldn’t know what the decent thing was if it came up and stood on their foot.
2 comments:
Oh for heaven's sake, don't you get it yet? she would not win the case if it went to trial because she has broken the law. The UK law, not the EU law. She is a criminal. The last time this kind of case was tested in the UK it was decided at every level of the UK legal system that traders DO NOT have the right to choose what units they use for pricing (but they can still sell any quantity their customer asks for, by the way). The council are just trying to avoid this devious woman from getting any more publicity for her xenophobic rant by denying her yet another opportunity to enhance her criminal record.
In the little world of David Brown we are all free, as long as we obey his metric dictats.
Why is it that those who like to use imperial because they know it, can relate to it and understand it have no problem with people also being free to use metric, but those who use metric are doing everything to deny our freedom to use imperial.
It would seem they are quite happy for use to be ripped off by less than scrupulous metric traders who use our ignorance of this alien system to confuse us.
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