On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 03:37:41 -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

You can't even get the year right.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...ies/january/1/
newsid_2459000/2459167.stm

we joined in 1973 after being rejected in 63, 67.

sigh

So what was the 1973 referendum result, and why was there a second
referendum in 1975...?