Feeling run hight on this issue, with many people resenting the 'interference' of Brussels in the traditional British way of life. In 2002, five 'metric martyrs', all market traders, were taken to court for not displaying metric prices on their goods. Their spokesman, Neil Herron, said that their defeat meant "the death of democracy", but the five received huge support from the public, who raised £250,000 to help pay their legal costs.