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