Sneaky Metrification

The petition is entitled Stop Ministers and others from attempting to Metricate the United Kingdom by stealth and the explanatory notes say

"More and more often Ministers and others within the Government and on Television news, reports and many other interests are referring to measurements in the Metric System. We are still an Imperial measuring country, together with our traditional means of measurements. These moves are a Government ploy for the acceptance of The EU and are designed to make the intergration into The EU more acceptable."

I'm not completely impartial here; I am a Scientist and I do like SI units (except for measuring the height and/or weight of a person, which I can somehow only grok in Imperial).

Let's take this argument in stages:

We are still an Imperial measuring country. Are we?
• together with our traditional means of measurements. I incline to the view that we're still an English-speaking country with traditionally correct grammar being expected of maniacal traditionalists. But these petitioners seem to disagree.
• are designed to make the intergration into The EU more acceptable. Quite aside from anything else, I find the idea of "intergration" into The EU (loving your capitalisation here, folks - pity your spelling and grammar aren't up to the same Dickensian standards) quite acceptable already, and likewise "integration".

I suspect that more Ministers, Government officials and TV news reporters are using metric units because, increasingly, they're young enough to have been taught them extensively at school and they actually think in them. Never ascribe to malice what you can adequately explain as perfectly natural.