New Report:How the public were denied the benefits of a genuine renegotiation in 1975
New report out that might give credance to some of those 1975 In/Out referendum conspiracy theories.
Makes you wonder if Douglas Carswell might have something after all.
http://businessforbritain.org/2014/08/27/how-the-public-were-denied-the-benefits-of-a-genuine-renegotiation-in-1975/
"Newly declassified documents from the Foreign Office secured after a year long Freedom of Information battle by Business for Britain have revealed fascinating new details about Britain’s sham ECC renegotiation and referendum in 1975.
Despite what the Government claimed publicly, new documents show that Ministers were told that the terms of European Economic Community (EEC) membership would seriously compromise Britain’s ability to govern itself."
Privately Harold Wilson was warned by the Lord President of the Council that “the transfer of Parliament’s legislative powers to the Council of Ministers and even more so to the Commission which was not elected and not accountable to the people of the United Kingdom… represented the most serious attack on Parliamentary democracy with which this country was faced,“.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11057170/How-Harold-Wilson-was-warned-Europe-threatened-British-democracy.html
Makes you wonder if Douglas Carswell might have something after all.
http://businessforbritain.org/2014/08/27/how-the-public-were-denied-the-benefits-of-a-genuine-renegotiation-in-1975/
"Newly declassified documents from the Foreign Office secured after a year long Freedom of Information battle by Business for Britain have revealed fascinating new details about Britain’s sham ECC renegotiation and referendum in 1975.
Despite what the Government claimed publicly, new documents show that Ministers were told that the terms of European Economic Community (EEC) membership would seriously compromise Britain’s ability to govern itself."
Privately Harold Wilson was warned by the Lord President of the Council that “the transfer of Parliament’s legislative powers to the Council of Ministers and even more so to the Commission which was not elected and not accountable to the people of the United Kingdom… represented the most serious attack on Parliamentary democracy with which this country was faced,“.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11057170/How-Harold-Wilson-was-warned-Europe-threatened-British-democracy.html
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We all believed that trading sanctions would be removed & the end to European wares every thirty years@:o
Yup. It was that simple. My dad and everyone I knew voted 'Yes'.