Brexit, of course...

I'm sure jam is still sold in 454g jars (1lb).

I think the issue here is not that food producers will or must go imperial, but that local independent traders selling loose items like fruit, veg and such like can choose whichever way they wish without being prosecuted. Can't say I'm overly bothered and the rubbish spouted by Charles Moore in yesterday's Telegraph is one reason why I didn't vote for Brexit.

Some things like recipes often don't have the equivalent in metric as in imperial. Half a pint is often down as being 300ml which of course it isn't.

I am now officially back in the EUSSR. My (much delayed by Covid) Maltese passport arrived today. Will now apply for wife and binlids.

I feel a bit sad rather than happy to be honest. There shouldn't have been any need for this. I am British and will consider myself such to the day I die, I never wanted to be anything else, but I am also European and to have had my European Citizenship removed along with all associated rights, without my consent, was an act of barbarism on the part of all those who voted those rights away, to be frank. I will resent their actions and the consequences they triggered for ever more. It won't be forgotten, nor forgiven.

I don't feel any satisfaction about regaining my rights either, when there are so many British people who would dearly love them back but have aren't as fortunate as I am. All I feel is indignation and injustice on their part. I just feel a bit hollow about it all.

Malta itself is an imperfect place - a grubby, corrupt little island with some lamentable social attitudes, laws and traditions to be honest, no better than the UK really, I feel no 'pride' in being part of it. But the world is what it is, and whilst such selfishness has been deployed by those who took my rights away, I feel no guilt for acting in my own interests and obtaining this passport.

Well I won't be seeing any queuing benefit at the UK border, as I'll still be leaving and entering the UK on my British passport. And until such time as those accompanying me on any travels also have a proper passport it'll be the slow poke through the barriers on arrival anywhere else still. I'll really only ever use the Malta one to enter the EU if I'm going to be doing so for more than the maximum a 2nd class British passport now allows, whatever that is.  But I now have it, and I'm ready when the time comes to spend longer periods in Europe, should I be fortunate enough to reach that goal.

Other big benefit of course is to be able to pass it on to my children now, so they can take advantage of any opportunity they may wish to take to study/work/live/love abroad.

Ain't it grand. Taste the sovrinty.