The 1975 Referendum on the Common Market

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

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🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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1975 - the first time Britain had a referendum on being in Europe and the ugliest things ever got was the fashion for flares, tank-tops and mullet haircuts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the We Are History podcast. I'm John O'Farrell. And I'm Angela Barnes.
0:13.7	What are we talking about today, Angela? Well, John, I think you'll agree that Great Britain has not had enough of talking about referendums.
0:21.9	Very good.
0:23.1	So we have decided to talk about the EU referendum, but not 2016 EU referendum.
0:29.5	The 1975.
0:30.9	The EEC referendum.
0:32.3	EEC, of course it wasn't the EU then, wasn't it?
0:34.0	The common market.
0:34.9	Yes, absolutely.
0:36.2	Yeah, we thought people would
0:37.5	be fascinated to know what happens when a government goes to the polls and says to the people,
0:44.8	you decide whether we're in the common market or not. Yeah, it's always a roaring success.
0:50.8	I think what's interesting is, you know, there's lots of talk at the moment. Here we are at the moment in 2019 of whether we can have a second referendum.
0:57.9	But of course, the referendum we had in 2016 was the second referendum.
1:00.9	Never hear Nigel Farage say that, do you?
1:03.8	No.
1:04.2	It's one each at the moment.
1:05.2	It's one all.
1:06.1	Right?
1:06.5	It's going to extra time.
1:08.0	We have a decider.
1:08.7	We have a decider. I have a decider. And then it's penalties with Anne Whittakerming goal and Gina Miller stippin up, puts in at the back of the air.
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