Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] regard it had for its ‘special relationship’ with the US. This changed – a little – after the Suez debacle. The UK finally applied to join the EEC in 1960 and was rebuffed by a French veto. By the mid-1960s the UK, via Lord Gladwyn, was arguing that it could only join the EEC […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust was virulently anti-Heath. Thus the AES recommended that the UK should leave the EEC and also (mistakenly) accused the Conservatives of being the party of increased taxation.2 When the UK voted to stay in EEC in June 1975 the central […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] and the Parliamentary Labour left. Labour lost the election in 1970. In came Edward Heath who wanted to turn Britain into West Germany, with membership of the EEC, and a semicorporate state in which the trade unions are embraced by the state in exchange for influence. (Essentially the same thing that Harold Wilson and […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee Simon Matthews The death of sixties broadcaster Simon Dee in August produced a crop of obituaries that commented on his brief period of fame and the claims he subsequently made about his career’s demise. Most of […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] But it does ignore the European dimension, that is to say the acceptance by the governments of the six nations who formed the ECSC and then the EEC that political and economic integration was the best way to continue what the fine historian Alan Milward called ‘the European rescue of the nation-state’. This nation-state […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[PDF file]: […] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]