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    50 anni fa oggi, il 5 giugno 1975, il Regno Unito ha votato per rimanere.

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    1. MonsieurA on

      [For context:](https://unireadinghistory.com/2019/01/25/the-1975-european-community-referendum-the-first-of-two-or-of-three/)

      >On 5 June 1975 the UK held a referendum in which the electorate were asked the following question:

      >Do You Think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?

      >Voters were required to answer either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. In total 17,378,581 (67.2 per cent of those voting) voted ‘Yes’ to staying in the Community, a number uncannily close to the 17,410,742 who voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 EU referendum. The turnout in 1975 was 64.5 per cent, considerably lower than the 2016 turnout of 72.2 per cent. […]

      >The referendum in June 1975 was the culmination of a fourteen-year process through which the UK joined the EEC.  It had sprawled across five governments, two Conservative and three Labour. […]

      >The UK became a member of the Community on 1 January 1973.

      >Inauspiciously, within a mere 15 months of the UK’s accession, a renegotiation of the UK’s terms of membership of the Community began, at the UK’s request. This followed Labour’s victory in the February 1974 General Election, during which Labour had promised in its manifesto to renegotiate Britain’s entry terms, stating that “The Labour Party opposes British membership of the European Communities on the terms negotiated by the Conservative Government.” The areas they wished to renegotiate were the Common Agricultural Policy, the Community budget, economic and monetary union, sovereignty, and VAT. 

    2. ConfusedAdmin53 on

      We need a trigger warning tag. Was not prepared to see the witch this early in the morning.

    4. MissyLissa04 on

      THEY HAD JOINED IN 1973

      WTF DO YOU MEAN THEY HAD ANOTHER VOTE IN 1975

    7. lhrbos on

      The days we had some rationality in our political world. Brexit has been an economic disaster. Pathetic that Labour does not hold a referendum to re-enter the EU. We have tried Brexit and it has manifestly failed.

    8. Catholic-Celt-29 on

      They were only in it like 3 years by this time and and already wanted a referendum on getting out?

    9. squeekysatellite on

      British exceptionalism. An illness back then, an illness today, an illness tomorrow.

    10. Prize_Tree on

      They voted no cus margaret thatcher was heading the brexit movement that time. Trust.

      Nevermind.

    11. Jindujun on

      Lol. That poster there is wild.

      “Let’s get britain out of the common market” yeah… the main reason to be in the EU, lets get the hell out of that one…

    13. Queldorei on

      Say what you will about Thatcher, but that flag knit top is proper fit.

    14. Think_Grocery_1965 on

      Shame De Gaulle’s predictions weren’t listened to.

      He was right and Brexit proved it.

    15. Xenon009 on

      This is what I mean when I say britian never has been, or likely ever will be part of europe.

      By that I don’t mean part of the union or the continental shelf, but we fundamentally never have, or likely ever, will see ourselves as part of a european whole. Any membership or relationship with the EU is from the british perspective, purely transactional. Which will never work with the european dream

      Don’t get me wrong, I think that britian should always be a partner to a wider EU, but I don’t think the UK has any position in that regard.

      Instead, I imagine britian will end up playing something of a role as the bridge between the EU proper and the anglosphere, much as slovienia operated as the bridge between east and west during the cold war, and prospered for it.

    16. Irishman4000 on

      I didn’t have Maggie Thatcher wearing an Irish tricolour on my bingo card today.

    18. Shot-Personality9489 on

      You could extrapolate a lot of data from this. Almost all of which leads to the same conclusion, people use referendums as a protest vote. We should probably hold more of them to lessen that impact.

      The other conclusion you can draw, and this one upsets me, is that its great proof that people turn conservative as they age. Also that the boomer generation held unbelievable voting power(which is only just lessening now). They voted to stay in the EU when staying in the EU benefited them. Cheap holidays to the med become available, financial allied with the eu, more jobs, more spending power, more movement. Then, when they got older and started to retire, they didn’t want to fund all that and wanted to keep the profits for themselves. It sickens me how selfish an entire generation ended up being. We should really call millennials the lost generation now tbh, and boomers the selfish generation.

    20. LabMermaid on

      I think I need to go out for a walk on my own to process Thatcher wearing a top with the tricolour on it to be honest.

    23. chodgson625 on

      Tony Benn’s economic plans for far left of Labout Party at the time – pull out of EEC(EU), pull out of NATO, sweeping tarrifs on all imports, rebuild manufacturing.. spookily Trump

    24. Limesmack91 on

      50 years ago, people were actually somewhat smart enough to read information critically

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