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Originally Posted by martyh
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.
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If anyone is in any doubt This is from 2014 before the European Elections.
We want a United States of Europe says top EU official
Voters must decide for or against a United States of Europe during EU elections this spring, says vice president of the European Commission
A campaign for the European Union to become a "United States of Europe" will be the "best weapon against the Eurosceptics", one of Brussels' most senior officials has said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-official.html