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"Those of us who have campaigned for years to alert the
British people to the damage our country suffers from EU
membership have to face a paradox; we have won all the
arguments, but British public opinion nevertheless seems
reconciled to the inevitability of continuing membership
....looking back at the warnings offered in the late 1960's
and early 1970's by anti-EEC opinion, what is striking about
them is their moderation..the longer we stay in the EEC, the
more difficult it becomes for us to achieve that national
success which alone will restore our confidence in ourselves"
ex-Labour Party MP Bryan Gould
in 'Bound to Fail' published 1989 by
the Anti-Common Market League.
"We must both ask and answer the question - how it is possible
that our politicians have accepted a constitution for Europe
that is so totally contrary to the traditions of democracy..
first came the Common Market [EEC]. We were told that its purpose
was to form a large free trade area. Then we moved on to a
scrapping of nations and we, also, were promised that we would
retain essential national soveriegnty.. the proposal of
irreversibilty was also introduced, preventing any nation from
leaving the EU. And now the trap is being closed. We are being
led blindfold into a federal super state...as we see this tragic
accident unfolding before our eyes, we are unable to be passive,
we have no option other than to fight."
Sir James Goldsmith
"On joining the Common Market and in the 1975 referendum, we
were repeatedly promised there would be 'jobs for the boys'.
From 1974 to 1996, the unemployment rate rose by four times.
Since joining the EEC we have seen the loss of shipbuilding,
steel and coal industries and we now import more manufactured goods than we export.
All this has contributed to long term mass unemployment and little hope for young people..
there are now one in three children on the breadline, and one in five
homes without a breadwinner"
From the 'Democrat', newspaper of
Campaign against euro-federalism.
"In 1971 Prime Minister Edward Heath told us that the EEC
was not a federation of provinces and there was 'no
question of any erosion of essential national
soverignty'. Two decades later, the primacy of
EU law over those passed by our own democratically
elected parliament humiliates ministers who would
like to stop animal exports, but are powerless to
act without the permission of all EU governments.
The Single European Act of 1986 removed
the UK's veto in a large number of areas where
national interests are subjugated to EU law.
Maastricht envisiged the replacing of monetary
policies designed to meet national objectives
by EU, whose policy would be set by unelected
Europesn Central Bank...we have been misled
and the economic consequences of membership
are far from the rosy picture painted by EU apologists.."
from the book 'There is an Alternative'
by Burkitt, Bainbridge and Whyman
published by Campaign for an Independent Britain
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