A big hello to the silly season

As always, the coming of August brings the arrival of the silly season and like the first daffodil of spring, a Daily Express journalist has been in contact with me asking me whether there is anyone in the European Parliament campaigning to make the UK change its road signs to kilometres.

Now the journalist was quick to mention the permanent derogation Britain has been granted on the use of imperial measurements for road signs and as such knew any change would be solely up to the British government and parliament. Yet the journalist still wanted to know if there was anyone in the European parliament who wanted Britain to ditch miles, even though this would be entirely irrelevant to the current situation.

So, sometime in the next month expect some ridiculous "save our mile" campaign in the Express suggesting there is a plot to force Britain to use the kilometre - even though the newspaper fully understands there is absolutely no threat whatsoever to the British mile.