General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

annemarie

The Heath government took us into the EEC (the common market) on the 1s January 1973 and shortly thereafter prices started to shoot up, and there was a public outcry over it, because there had not been a referendum on whether the UK should join the EEC.

In the general elections of 1974 (there were two) the Labour Party who at that time were against Britain joining the EEC, promised in their election manifesto to have a referendum on whether to remain in the EEC, or leave, and after being elected in 1974, the Labour Party held the 1975 referendum on whether to reman in the EEC, in which the British public voted to remain in the bloody thing.