[…] wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of GDP and employs a million people; the City represents perhaps a th ird of that and, in turn, that part threatened – if it was threatened at all – some fraction of that. This is a tiny economic interest. […]
[…] lack of interest in the ‘Soviet threat’ triggered the formation of the anti-subversion lobby which gathered round Brian Crozier in the early 1970s – CIA, MI6 and IRD personnel who were not persuaded of the decline of the ‘Soviet threat’. (This was part of the wider debate about the reality of détente between NATO […]
[PDF file]: […] wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of GDP and employs a million people; the City represents perhaps a th ird of that and, in turn, that part threatened – if it was threatened at all – some fraction of that. This is a tiny economic interest. […]
