Personally, it wouldn't bother me. I can think in metric or imperial, and I tend to work in a mix of the two - I think of weights in purely metric terms, small measurements in mm and cm and larger distances in feet and miles, volumes in either depending on circumstance. Torque and horsepower I end to think of in bhp and ft/lbs rather than PS and nm.
Of course, good luck getting the british population to countenance such proposals at a time when anti-EU sentiment is running very high. No politician would dare to propose such a thing, especially given the cost of switching millions of road signs, atlases, references etc. over to metric. Maybe we'll see full adoption of the metric system within my lifetime, but I wouldn't say so for sure.
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