My Oh My! I have heard it all now. Alan Johnson, ex-Labour Home Secretary is a fool. He stated this evening on a brief BBC debate that we joined the EU after a Labour referendum in 1975.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9811265/David-Cameron-can-prove-de-Gaulle-was-right-about-us-all-along.html
http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliament-and-europe/overview/britain-and-eec-to-single-european-act/
- Point one, you moron, the people in 1975 voted to stay in a Common Market (European Economic Community) not the undemocratic four tiered behemoth that is is now.
- Point two, it wasn't created to prevent another conflict, NATO was created for this. It was created so that France and West Germany could pool their resources along with the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy and rebuild their countries, something that we, one of the Allies of the Second World War were unable to do for a very, very, very long time.
- Point three, Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, one of the first countries to become a member of the Common Market, DID NOT want us to join, in fact he blocked our membership twice. We only joined the EEC after De Gaulle's resignation in 1969. Despite the fact the United Kingdom gave him shelter during the Second World War and she and her allies lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers trying to liberate HIS country. He wasn't even present during the D-Day landings in June 1944, he didn't come over until August of that year!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9811265/David-Cameron-can-prove-de-Gaulle-was-right-about-us-all-along.html
http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliament-and-europe/overview/britain-and-eec-to-single-european-act/
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