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[…] 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 […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] words, the Government’s policy of not interning Loyalist paramilitaries was now in serious jeopardy. The situation was further complicated because the British Parliament was bitterly divided on EEC membership and Edward 18 See Document 10 in the separate Wallace Appendices file. 16 Heath needed the eight Unionist votes in the House of Commons to […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] years of Cityoriented economic policies, the UK would be just another middling social democratic society. As it is, compared to – say – the members of the EEC when the UK joined in 1973, we have the worst housing, transport system and roads; the worst health and old age care; the worst education system; […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] European market and away from Commonwealth and Empire countries, the economic complement of the military turn to Europe was not formalized until 1973, when Britain entered the EEC (European Economic Community). This was the era of social democratic Britain, one in which governments of both major parties were committed to programmes of industrial modernization […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] British system, from the prime minister (nor, had they been asked, from the electorate). Prime Minister Wilson diverted Benn’s energies into a referendum on membership of the EEC and, having seen that off, retired at 60 (as he had always told his friends he would), before the dementia which was in his family affected […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and the big noises of politics, capital and the state. In […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the manufacturing base after the Thatcher governments had a go at it. This country’s fishing industry was largely wrecked as part of the price of entering the EEC in 1972. The steel industry was ‘rationalised’, and, like coal, was mostly closed in the 1980s. Agriculture is being reduced under ‘set aside’ schemes and another […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be called the official-unofficial record. Here is an example from the EC membership application chapter. We learn that: ‘The decision to apply for British membership of the EEC was taken at a meeting held in the Prime Minister’s room in the House of Commons at 3pm on Friday 21 July 1961…..A hot Friday afternoon […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] they attracted immense publicity and remained a critical feature of domestic UK political life, breathlessly anticipated each month by the media until the UK’s entry into the EEC in 1973 when regular bulletins about how the Sterling Area was performing became somewhat less important.2 9 The mixture of assertions and assumptions that the Treasury […]

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