GETTY Campaigners are removing EU-mandated metric measures with imperial ones

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Campaigners believe imperial measurements are part of our culture and identity and are relieved to be free from the metric bureaucratic bullying. Derek Norman, 82, removes public signs with the EU-mandated metric measures and replaces them with imperial ones. Emboldened by the vote for Brexit, Mr Norman said: “I didn’t want to see normal, everyday life in metric.”

GETTY Brexiteers are happy to not have the metric signs that others EU countries use

I didn’t want to see normal, everyday life in metric Sign campaigner

The Eurosceptic pensioner said: “I’m interested in immigration, but my main thing is democracy. “I want to be governed by people we elect.” The group that Mr Norman founded in 2001, the Active Resistance to Metrication Movement, has swapped more than 1,800 signs across the country. The resistance began when councils erected metric signs and he would remove signs and dump them several miles away.

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GETTY Campaigners see it as an EU intrusion into their country

He said: “We had spotters across the country”. Speaking of his relief to leave the EU, Mr Norman said: “I couldn’t believe that we actually had the chance to leave the EU. I worked so hard in my own time.” Campaigner Warwick Cairns said: “There is something about feet and inches that feel part of our identity and culture. “They make sense on a human scale, they make sense on a cultural scale. It is part of us.”

GETTY The campaigners have changed signs all across the country