Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[PDF file]: […] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] years of Cityoriented economic policies, the UK would be just another middling social democratic society. As it is, compared to – say – the members of the EEC when the UK joined in 1973, we have the worst housing, transport system and roads; the worst health and old age care; the worst education system; […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] European market and away from Commonwealth and Empire countries, the economic complement of the military turn to Europe was not formalized until 1973, when Britain entered the EEC (European Economic Community). This was the era of social democratic Britain, one in which governments of both major parties were committed to programmes of industrial modernization […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] British system, from the prime minister (nor, had they been asked, from the electorate). Prime Minister Wilson diverted Benn’s energies into a referendum on membership of the EEC and, having seen that off, retired at 60 (as he had always told his friends he would), before the dementia which was in his family affected […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and the big noises of politics, capital and the state. In […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the manufacturing base after the Thatcher governments had a go at it. This country’s fishing industry was largely wrecked as part of the price of entering the EEC in 1972. The steel industry was ‘rationalised’, and, like coal, was mostly closed in the 1980s. Agriculture is being reduced under ‘set aside’ schemes and another […]