Thread by @EmporersNewC

@mattletiss7 This is horse shit from the first thing I saw. "Heath refused to consult the electorate partly because he knew he would lose"

There was a vote in Parliament.

How about I save my time not reading the rest of it, because it's obviously been written by a twisting bullshitter.

@mattletiss7 "were keen to portray the EC as nothing more than a “Common Market”"

If "interesting" is "I find interesting things that have been written to set the opinions of the gullible". Here is Ted Heath talking about the political union to come in a televised 1875 debate

@mattletiss7 The front page of the Liberal party's Common Market campaign leaflet. Funny, it doesn't read like a Common Market....

@mattletiss7 I mean it was a bit later since Edward Heath had made it clear when we went it wasn't a Common Market...

@mattletiss7 Not to mention….you know the debates.

@mattletiss7 Then there were the serious documentaries.

@mattletiss7 The twee documentaries

@mattletiss7 The press

@mattletiss7 The book that Ted Heath published in 1970 🙄

@mattletiss7 The interviews where the head of the negotiating team said that what matters is we create some sort of political union.

@mattletiss7 The fact that pro-marketeers were actively arguing the sovereignty issue. Don't take my word for it. Listen to Enoch Powell.

@mattletiss7 That would be the sovereignty that Edward Heath talked about in parliament.

@mattletiss7 And the political union the government said they were going to a summit to discuss.

@mattletiss7 Then had the summit

@mattletiss7 Then came back and announced European Union

@mattletiss7 Then wrote that the result of Paris summit concluded this was more than just a Common market.

@mattletiss7 As for people thinking we had been excluded from monetary union, that is not what was said. There was always the possibility of an EMU over the long term.

Guess what? We didn't end up in it.

@mattletiss7 That would be the EMU that was on the 10 year plan that was published when we entered with....a summit to discuss European Union. Surprise...surprise.

@mattletiss7 Excuse me if I don't read and address any more of that "interesting" article, I hope you've seen enough now to know that it's just horseshit. That's without talking about how the anti-Marketeers described the Marketeer argument.

@mattletiss7 Or the way they ran their campaign.