Thread by @nicktolhurst

Many people still after 5 years don’t get it.
Return of imperial measurements is not a “dead cat”.
It’s a way of punishing the young & the educated.

Just as Brexit isn’t Brexit unless foreigners suffer even if we don’t expel them.
The point is to make their lives more difficult.

It’s a war.
In which there’s no economic gains for most people, so in order for Brexit to be a success “they” must suffer.

Ever additional form an EUer has to fill out satisfies the desire to inflict pain. As does inflicting imperial weights on the young.

The pain is the point.

I keep telling you this but you still don’t learn from history.

In 1930s Germany 90% of people had no idea what state-corporatist-nationalism was. They didn’t care either.

But a “permission to transgress” & the chance to “inflict pain” on others was what led them there.

Nationalism makes no sense and “butters no bread”.
There’s literally no economic point to it.
That’s why it always, always, always ends up on the same place.

So you have to defeat it.
No other choice.

So for the love of god stop calling this “dead cats”.