Winseer:
muckles:
Winseer:
Agreed. There was an almighty slump in 1975, right after we were fooled into joining the EEC. Property prices crashed, The stock market crashed, unemployment started to rise sharply, and inflation took off as well. Four years later, this country was on it’s knees, and voted for Thatcher to make the “Nasty” decisions to get us out of it…We joined the EEC in 1973, (not 1975) under a Covservative government, it was the Labour government elected in 1974 that then held a referendum in 1975 on whether we should stay in, and very much like the last referendum, it had more to do with internal party politics than democracy for the people. In this referendum Margret Thatcher campaigned on the Stay In side.
Margret Thatcher wasn’t anti EEC/EU she wanted the trade benefits, but was more skeptic about its social polices. During the 1980’s leaving the EEC was Labour Party policy, not the Conservatives.
Back then, the incoming Labour government COULD have turned over our entry into the EEC - by scrapping that referendum held on their watch. They didn’t
I would then expect at very least for the Labour Party TODAY to announce that it will absolutely NOT “turn over the result of the referendum” by either holding a second one, or dropping the implementation of Brexit in any way" upon taking office. This needs to be their manifesto committment OR they need to clearly state the opposite, that "Labour, upon being elected - will turn over Brexit with immediate effect:
A) I was commenting on your historical inaccuracies.
B) you really don’t get it do you? The Labour Goverment elected in 1974 had the same internal divisions on the EEC as the Tory party of today, hence the 1975 referendum, hokding the referendum was part of the election deal, the same as Cameron promised one as part of his 2015 election campaign, it wasn’t until the 1980’s that Labour had leaving the EEC as part of their election manifesto.
And the Labour Party today still has the same internal divisions on the EU, but maybe not as likely to tear the party apart as it could the Conservative party, but it has other things which pull it apart.