[PDF file]: […] integration as it was set out in the 1958 Treaty of Rome. At that time Nye Bevan argued that the Common Market or European Economic Community ( EEC) elevated ‘the marketplace to the status now enjoyed by the various European Parliaments’. Socialism and democracy had been rejected in favour of free trade: there was […]
[PDF file]: […] AEU.218 Europe The social democratic wing of the Labour Party had three key positions: British membership of NATO, retention of British nuclear weapons, and membership of the EEC. After the defeat of CND at the Labour conference of 1961, it was European Economic Community (EEC) membership which became their great cause. With this achieved […]
[PDF file]: […] this was generated by concern at rising unemployment, it was also Heath’s belief that the UK economy should be going at full tilt when it entered the EEC and faced competition from other EEC members. 23 This took place in an environment in which capital – largely America corporations – was mounting a sustained […]
[PDF file]: […] the British economy. In the first year and a half of his government he appeared to believe that the best way to prepare the British economy for EEC entry was a dose of competition and freedom – the traditional Tory Party ideas of getting the government off the backs of the producers, reducing taxation […]
[PDF file]: […] in isolation in a hostile wider world. The UK misdiagnosed its own relatively poor economic performance in the period 1946-1970 compared to the countries within the original EEC: it didn’t properly attribute the positive impact of post-war reconstruction as the key factor in Europe. Furthermore the relatively weak EU GDP growth performance since 1980 […]
[PDF file]: […] the US. Wynne Godley you may recall as the ex-HM Treasury economic modeller and leading light of the Cambridge Economics Policy group. He opposed membership of the EEC during the 1975 referendum and supported the so-called Alternative Economic Strategy. This was developed to oppose the monetary orthodoxy that was used to first hobble the […]
[PDF file]: […] since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European Economic Community ( EEC) became an objective of large-scale business and finance in the UK during the late 1950s and early 1960s, as profits to be made from trade with […]
[PDF file]: […] This is true but there is politics here, too; the EU is as much a political as an economic project. One of the ideas behind the (then) EEC was the belief that the (West) German ‘problem’ could be only be solved by enmeshing it deeply with its neighbours. Thus the EEC-EU project. But thanks […]
[PDF file]: […] not available on the Net and in many other books. The real point of this book are the chapters on events prior to the 1975 referendum on EEC membership. This is the best account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research […]
[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that […]
