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Originally Posted by jaysay
Ted Teeth did it with a pen, but it wasn't anything like Europe as we know it today, we had a referendum in the 70s asking if we wanted to stay in the common market, as it was called then, I'm sure if people had have known what Europe would become back then there wouldn't have been a cat in hells chance of a yes vote  |
I was stationed in the Outer Hebrides when that referendum was held - the Western Isles voted NO - probably because of the quite large number of Army and R.A.F. personnel stationed there who had experienced life in Germany and who just didn't have much faith in the vision of a united democratic Europe - Germany & France had never been big on democratic rule.