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Originally Posted by Big Brian
Remember that the EU we are in isn't what those who voted to remain in 1975 voted for. Then it was a Common Market - a trade zone only but it has become more of a Political Union as the decades have passed. I voted to leave in 1975 because I knew where it would lead and have the satisfaction of saying I told you so. It doesn't take a genius to work out the next stage, total integration. Despite Britain opting out of this and that, there will come a time where there won't be a choice - they either join the lot or leave. So why not leave now?
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Quite right ,i am too young to have voted in '75 but i do remember the referendum and i remember us joining the Common Market and decimalisation .We are often told that the EEC or Common Market was always intended to be a single union for trade , travel and work between European countries as it is now but the trouble was that we didn't have the internet or 24hr rolling news all we had was newspapers and the odd public information film to relay information from the government to the public and in most ways the paper you read in those days governed your politics .My dad told me that the EEC was a trade federation designed to make trading easier between European countries ,he didn't tell me that the EEC was the first step in a United States of Europe simply because he didn't know .Even the question asked in the '75 referendum was misleading
"Do you think the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?" note the phrase Common Market ,nothing at all about ever closer political and financial union .What we need now is for our leaders to come clean and say exactly what is intended for Europe and let us decide if we want it.