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I could be persuaded to tolerate Ukip’s nuttier policies like withdrawing from the EU, and might even turn a blind eye to Nigel Farage’s conspicuous consumption of real ale and cigarettes which gives regrettable support to the alcohol and tobacco industries, if Ukip made it a pre-condition of any coalition that we dump metric measurement in favour of the traditional Imperial system and return pounds, shillings and pence to our pockets and tills.