On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:47:04 -0700, whisky-dave wrote:

I wish I could believe that as I think IIRC the vote to go into the EC
in 1973/4 was 47% less than 50%

Nope - 67.2% of those who voted said "Yes".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
United_Kingdom_European_Communities_membership_ref erendum,_1975