[…] programme of industrial and commercial expansion led by the private sector – were put into practice by the Conservative government in 1970-1971. Heath took Britain into the EEC in early 1973, a move that was designed to secure for the UK, in the longer term, the type of prosperous economy that was perceived to […]
[…] and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union (EU), rather than Common Market, European Economic Community ( EEC), or European Community (EC), will be used throughout this article to refer to the post-war project of European integration. In the beginning The post-war project of […]
[…] – BP Pension Fund 1973; member of National Liberal Club. STANLEY JOHNSON – World Bank 1966; Conservative Party research department 1969; Countryside Commission 1971; environmental post at EEC 1973; Conservative MEP Isle of Wight and Hampshire 1979-1984; currently Director for Energy Policy of the EU. STEPHAN JOSEPH – Chief Executive of Transport 2000. ALEXANDER […]
[…] the conditions and dropped them into the Chancellor’s red box. The Treasury opposes UK entry into the euro – just as it opposed UK entry into the EEC in 1973. The Bank of England, which would lose much of its power if the UK joined the euro, is now openly sceptical about UK membership […]
[…] Bryan Gould, and the Labour Party began producing policies to deal with it. But in 1986 Neil Kinnock et al decided to support Britain’s membership of the EEC and from that point the game was up. For EEC membership was incompatible with the kinds of nationalist, anti free trade policies being produced by the […]
[…] genuine Strasserites. In March the NF was frozen out of the 1975 National Referendum Campaign (NRC) for a ‘no’ vote in the referendum on membership of the EEC. While the far left were also rejected, it was a palpable sign of the NF’s distance from the centres of orthodox political power, and their subsequent […]
[…] PENSIONS 66-68 ASST. UNDER-SEC. DHSS ADAMSON, NICHOLAS CLARK OBE (1982) B. 5/9/38 MI6 (C) 56-65 HM FORCES -69 2ND LATER 1ST SEC. FCO -72 1ST SEC. ( EEC) BRUSSELS -75 1ST SEC. FCO -79 1ST SEC. ISLAMABAD -82 FCO -86 1ST SEC. PARIS ADCOCK, SIR FRANK (EZRA) KT (1954) OBE (17) B. 15/4/1896 D. […]
[…] read. I was amazed at the content of these files which had little to do with subversion but showed an obsession with immigration and the EU (the EEC at that time). A few weeks later I was invited to have lunch with GKY and Eric Lancasterat the Caledonian Club in Halkin Street, SW1. Eric […]
[…] of the Labour Party. But by 1979 Callaghan was triumphant. Brown was a comical, ridiculed drunk. Wilson was forgotten and discredited. Jenkins had left to become an EEC Commissioner. Barbara Castle, too, had gone to Europe, as Leader of the Labour Group of MEPs. The period 1979-1980 saw Callaghan basking in a kind of […]
[…] Heath years. His account confirms the analysis I offer of this period in chapter 1 of The Rise of New Labour. Obsessed with British entry into the EEC, Heath embarked upon his ‘dash for growth’, and turned the bankers loose. Having worked in the City, Nott saw immediately how disastrous the so-called Competition and […]
