UK Govt. Celebrates Another Post-Brexit 'Freedom': Wine In Pint Bottles

If you needed yet another story to highlight the absurdity of how a Tory government does things solely for their cynical political benefit rather than social good or industry requirement then this bit of foolishness would fit the bill. The Conservatives now say that Britons will have the "freedom" to purchase wine and sparkling wine in "pint" sized bottles. Unfortunately, the UK was in the European Union from 1973-2020 and those old imperial measurements have pretty much disappeared from the landscape, replaced by much simpler and standard metric measurements, so there's no point in ever producing in this new size since they could not be exported to Europe. And if you're under 50 or so you won't even know what they mean. So you have a pointless appeal to older voters on nostalgia for a product that never was and likely never will be.

Just idiotic.

Source: Independent

Britons will soon be able to buy “pint” sized bottles of still and sparkling wine in the form of a new 568ml amount to appear on supermarket shelves and in pubs, clubs and restaurants, the Government has announced.

The government has touted bringing back the pint measure for champagne as a supposed “Brexit win” – but practical difficulties mean the product is unlikely to actually hit shelves.

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