Yes to Europe The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain 1st Edition by Robert Saunders 1108425356 9781108425353

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ISBN 10: 1108425356

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Author: Robert Saunders

On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain’s first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As in 2016, the campaign shattered old political allegiances and triggered a far-reaching debate on Britain’s place in the world. The campaign to stay in stretched from the Conservative Party – under its new leader, Margaret Thatcher – to the Labour government, the farming unions and the Confederation of British Industry. Those fighting to ‘Get Britain Out’ ranged from Enoch Powell and Tony Benn to Scottish and Welsh nationalists. Footballers, actors and celebrities joined the campaign trail, as did clergymen, students, women’s groups and paramilitaries. In a panoramic survey of 1970s Britain, this volume offers the first modern history of the referendum, asking why voters said ‘Yes to Europe’ and why the result did not, as some hoped, bring the European debate in Britain to a close.

Yes to Europe The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain 1st Table of contents:

1 Opportunity and Illusion: The Road to 1975
‘The Price of Victory’
Idealism and Interest: Founding the EEC
Missing the Bus?
Defying Gravity?
Affluence and Decline
‘A City at Unity in Itself’
‘Full-Hearted Consent’
‘A Competitive Jungle’
‘Fish and Chips and HP Sauce’
Schrödinger’s Cabinet

2 ‘A Device of Dictators and Demagogues’: Renegotiation to Referendum
‘The People’s Veto’
‘A Device of Dictators and Demagogues’
Wilson’s Somersault
‘Tory Terms’
Birthday Presents
Selling the Deal
‘Conference Will Advise. The People Will Decide’

3 ‘Support Your Local Continent!’: Britain in Europe
Phoney War
Britain in Europe
‘People for Europe’
‘Young Europeans Afloat’
Conservatives for Europe
Tackling the Benn-man
‘Liberals Played it Dirty’
‘Thoughtful Themes’
‘Our Enemies . . . Will Rejoice’
Paper Armies
‘Policy Not to Stress Differences’
In Victory, Defeat

4 ‘Better Out Than In’: The National Referendum Campaign
‘Strength through Disunity’
‘A Dreadful Rag-Bag’
‘A Booze-Up in a Brewery’
Labour against the Market
‘Britain’s Independence Day’
‘Out of Europe – and into the World’
The Benn Effect
Conclusion

Part Two: Themes and Issues

5 ‘The Boardroom Must Lead!’: Employers, Unions and the Economy
‘Crisis ‘75’
Meeting ‘Mr Europe’
Winning in Europe
Industry Voices
There Is No Alternative
Faith in the City
‘Out of Europe – and into the World’
The Forward March of Labour Halted

6 ‘Women and Children First!’
‘A High Street Referendum’
Women for Europe
‘The Housewives’ Champion of Europe’
‘Market Mothers’
‘The Common Supermarket’
Equal Pay
Conclusion

7 ‘Come to Pray on Referendum Day’
‘Christians for Europe’
‘Weep for Jerusalem’
‘God is for Europe’46
‘For Commonwealth and Nation’
‘The Seamless Garment of Christ’
Cold War Christians
Against the Common Market
Conclusion

8 ‘No Good Talking About Sovereignty’
Sovereignties Old and New
Parliamentary Socialism
‘Our Right to Rule Ourselves’
‘Sovereignty’ or ‘Power’?
‘A Bogus Issue’
Sovereignty and Democracy
‘An Old-Fashioned, Imperialistic Sort of Sound’

9 ‘The New British Empire’
Imperial Nostalgia?
Imperial Recessional
‘Queen Victoria’s Umbilical Cord’
Powellism, Europe and Empire
‘Before They Doubted. Now They Want Us In’
‘Common Market Reggae’
Conclusion

10 ‘Think of It as the Common Supermarket’
The CAP Doesn’t Fit
‘Food Costs More in the Common Market’
Farmers for Europe
‘A Common Food Policy’
Fish and Ships
Conclusion

Part Three: The Unravelling of Britain?

11 ‘Ulster Says Yes!’
‘Ulster Says No!’ Unionists against Europe
‘Vote No to the New Act of Union’
‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’ Northern Ireland for Europe
‘A Noble Enterprise’

12 Cymru yn Ewrop: Wales in Europe
Plaid Cymru: ‘Dyweded Cymra Na’
‘The Biggest Voluntary Redundancy in History’
‘Cymru yn Ewrop’/Wales in Europe
‘The Valleys of Resignation’

13 ‘The Scottish Time-Bomb’
A Scottish ‘No’
The SNP and Europe
The Southern Strategy
‘Scotland in Europe’
Scotland Says Yes

Epilogue: ‘We Are All Europeans Now’
A New Hope
Disappointed Expectations
Winds of Change
Renegotiations
‘Dracula v. Frankenstein’
The Man in the Middle
The Final Countdown

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