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Originally Posted by Britannist
Michael Foot, as Labour leader, made the claim that he would take the UK out of the EEC/EU in the Labour Party Manifesto of 1983 - but I never believed him. I was quite convinced that had Labour won that election it would not have kept the promise (i.e. there would have been another sham so-called 'renogotiation' of the UK membership terms of the EEC/EU).
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Of course Foot's support of Nuclear Disarmement made him unlectable in any case at a time when the Cold War was at its height.
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Mr Delors said that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community, The Commission to be The Executive and The Council Of Ministers The Senate. NO! NO! NO!
(Margaret Thatcher 30 Oct 1990)
Ignore List: The Prophets of ST Al the Unelectable.
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