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Originally Posted by nomadking
Where is the evidence that they didn't "get over it" at the time. The EEC was nothing compared to the EU today. That is where the differences arise. How many who voted yes in 1975 had in mind a picture of what the EU is today?
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Well, the differences arise in things like that that vote was 67.2% - 32.8%.
The idea that that vote stopped Euroscepticism and that no-one wanted the UK out of the EEC, etc, is absurd.
Such feelings were organised in a more concrete form by 1994 with the formation of the Referendum Party, though it's really not difficult to find people, especially on the fringes of right and left, who wanted the UK out. As a nation we never really embraced membership of the EU and were always somewhat half-hearted with support varying wildly.
As far as circumstances changing, they do that. In the case of our most recent referendum they changed a few hours after the result when those leading the leave campaign realised the country had bought into it and they would actually have to either deliver what they promised or backtrack on it, followed by a bunch of backtracking.
I have no interest in another referendum as a result but no way am I not going to continue making the argument, or pointing out when the BS unravels, on either side of the argument.
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Originally Posted by Big Brian
I feel vindicated now we have voted to leave as I did in 1975 but there will always be unhappy people.
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I'm more inclined to actually wait for the fallout in full, and to see the end result, before any feelings of being vindicated come out.
Being on the winning side doesn't mean being on the right one.
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In other news Theresa May's cunning appointments to her cabinet are looking smarter and smarter.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7163996.html
Guess who has to deal with the farmers and rural communities? One Andrea Leadsom.