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Originally Posted by papa smurf
no one voted for what the EU turned into .do you not see the problem with this  [COLOR="Silver"]
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Yes they did ,the basis of the out campaign was that Britain would merge with the rest of Europe becoming little more than a province
The 'in' campaign agreed with this assessment and used in the their campaign and then knowing this the public voted 67% to remain (knowing full well it would mean more intergration
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Ianch the 1975 vote was purely for a trading bloc and if the political union that we ended up with had been on the vote we wouldn't have voted for it back then, it's the number 1 thing i constantly heard from people who voted in 75 including a few who voted to join the EEC.
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The vote wasn't purely for a trading bloc at all that is completely wrong ,the referendum was won on the basis that staying in would mean more integration
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archi...dum-on-europe/