decimalizes

So the idea that in this land - the very same land where Magna Carta was once signed with a quill - an individual can now be prohibited from carrying a pen comes as a rude shock, and it is fervently to be hoped that this development will serve as a wake-up call to people the world over of the possible consequences down the road when a nation gives up its hard-won freedoms, decimalizes its coinage, stops selling apples by the pound, reforms the House of Lords and allows the pubs to stay open after eleven in the evening.

Hitchens Watch 2009