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Originally Posted by garinda
We didn't join the then Common Market until 1973, after we voted to join following a referendum.
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Wrong, as usual Garinda. The referendum was in 1975 -after our joining of the Common Market - and wording on the ballot was something like "Do you accept the renegotiated terms of the UK membership of the Common Market". Those "terms" were meaningless; the usual Wilsonian bull**** of its day.
We have never had a simple referendum on the Common Market, the question being "Do we stay in or get out"; I know where my cross would go.