The EU has no plans to get rid of pints or miles (sadly).

Which is just as well, since replacing every signpost would cost this country millions, for a false, made-up measurement that was only invented because of a French obsession with the figure 10.

•The UK’s EU exports have increased by £0.1 billion (1.0 per cent) compared to October 2012, to £13.1 billion.
•The UK’s EU imports have decreased by £0.1 billion (0.6 per cent) compared to October 2012, to £18.2 billion.
•The UK remains a net importer (imports are greater than exports). The size of difference between imports and exports is now £5.1 billion, a decrease of £0.2 billion (4.3 per cent).

NHS budget GBP 106 billion.

Wellfare Budget GBP 117 billion

The paltry 18 and 13 billion in imports and exports rather pale in comparison with those numbers.

18 & 13 billion might seem paltry to you, but to me, on about £200 per week, it seems a Hell of a lot, so please don’t talk down to us.
NHS & welfare monies stay in this country, and are designed to care for those, in this country, who need help; your “paltry” excess 5 billion leaves this country, never to return.
The EU’s accountants are so incompetent that their own auditors (who, I would venture to suggest, are far more au fait with economic reality than anyone here) totally refuse, again and again, to sign off their figures; expecting me to join such an organisation is akin to asking turkeys to vote for Christmas all the year round.

He did have something of a temper, apparently.

Edgar you said the drawing was wrong (180 degrees out)

Sorry, but I said no such thing, I simply wrote what the drawing depicts. The word “wrong” does not appear anywhere in my statement.

but you also said ‘they should be capable of being read from the wingtips’

which is how the drawing shows them.

– but thats whats shown on the ‘incorrect’ drawing whereas the logos should be capable of being read from the inboard access position.

Who says? Too often 21st. century practices, systems, and mores are introduced into 1940s methods, and it doesn’t work.
Wartime drawings were scrutinised by the Local Technical Committee, and the Resident Technical Officer (both answerable to the Air Ministry, not the company,) as was the work carried out. If the drawing was wrong it should/would have been changed, not just ignored (the addition of a white ring, in the fuselage roundel, in mid-1940, was the subject of a full-blown Amendment 201.)

At the time of the Falklands war, there was talk of Antarctica being “explored” for its minerals, with only those nations which could subtend angles down to the landmass able to qualify for mining rights; by extending their borders sideways, Argentina could have demanded a bigger slice of the pie. Now, with oil revenue involved, we are expected to believe that Argentina’s bellicose posturing is pure coincidence; it’s to be hoped that our diplomats are more wide awake than the lot we had in the 1980s.

According to one Supermarine drawing 35600 sht 21G (for the 21, admittedly,) the “walkway inboard” stencils are 180 degrees out, as well; they should be capable of being read from the wingtip.

He missed the bit about leading the dozy populace, by the hand, since they can’t be trusted to understand what’s going on. We must, therefore, have a flood report delivered by someone who has donned wellington boots, and walked into the water, since we are too dumb to guess what running water looks like.
A report about bad weather has to come from a knee-deep snowdrift, or a harbour wall, with the attendant danger of being blown away (oh, please.) Also, unless the report is delivered from in front of 10, Downing Street, we can’t possibly recognise that it concerns our Prime Minister.
Anyone else noticed how they all seem to be “editors,” or “deputy editors,” not reporters any more? Bet that came with a pay rise.

Photos, in 1941 (IIa,) and 1945 (XVI,) in “Fighter Squadrons of the RAF,” show 24″ codes, so it should be a fair bet they continued through the war.