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We are in favour of the gradual adaptation of the Metric system in this country.  

Headline starts by saying "Common Sense and the Metric System". It's only downhhill from there: "Division by tens is NOT a natural one, and arose from the primitive habit of reckoning by fingers and thumb." Not the writings from a contemporary, hard-core Brexiteer, but from The Engineering Times, March 1899. -Seems like you guys really couldn't get much more "gradual" than this, without stopping and going in reverse?  

We are in favour of the gradual adaptation of the Metric system in this country.
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