"Rod Speed" wrote in news:f2o5f8Flgs7U1
@mid.individual.net:

"pamela" wrote in message
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In fact de Gaulle refused to allow Britain to
join and Britain did join after he had died.

Because the Etonian elite (who had a majority in Eden's cabinet) decided
not to unite with France (had that great opportunity been taken up, there
probably would have been no EEC the following year) and threw their lot in
with the US instead.

De Gaulle's position is far more often quoted than the reason for it - the
****ing idiotic policy of the British Tory government towards France and
its compradore Atlanticist policy which was backed by Labour but which
still hasn't been put to a vote.

In today's changed circumstances, a Britain outside of the EU would have no
friends, would be even weaker relative to the foreign power that keeps
military bases here, and would be totally up **** creek without a paddle,
however much Theresa May - the rival of Eden and Macmillan for sheer
incompetence - goes to India and the UAE with a begging bowl. Funny money
from such places may keep the Tory party afloat but it won't keep Britain
afloat. There's a difference.

For God's sake, stay in the EU already.

Harry