UK's 1975 EEC Membership Referendum: campaign leaflets

UK's 1975 EEC Membership Referendum: campaign leaflets

All in one colour PDF scan, no OCR, image only, 20 pages.

Well, I'm not expecting this one to go like a train, but it might interest someone out there.

I still have from 1975 hard copies of the leaflets sent in the campaign prior to this Referendum. Not readily finding images of them all on the net I thought I might post them. They are as follows:

1) Britain In Europe's 4 page leaflet, with Dove/union jack motif (the ever popular Semiramis).
2) Britain In Europe's "Why YouShould Vote Yes" leaflet, 8 sides.
3) National Referendum Campaign's "Why YouShould Vote No" leaflet, 8 sides.
4) Conservative Central Office's "The Case for Staying In the EEC" leaflet, 2 sides.
5) HMG's "Britain's New Deal In Europe", 16 sides (the leaflet mentioned in Wikipedia below with its link [10] to transcript).

Reading these documents more than 35 years later in the light of subsequent developments makes for an interesting exercise in comparison between what was forecast and what actually happened. Perhaps the most that can be said is from the 'Vote No' leaflet:

"_Britain a mere province of the Common Market_?

The real aim of the Market is, of course, to become one single country in which Britain would be reduced to a mere province. The plan is to have a Common Market Parliament by 1978 or shortly thereafter. Laws would be passed by that Parliament which would be binding on our country. No Parliament elected by the British peple could change those laws."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Communities_members...

"United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, 1975
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The United Kingdom referendum of 1975 was a post-legislative referendum held on 5 June 1975 in the United Kingdom to gauge support for the country's continued membership of the European Economic Community (EEC), often known as the Common Market at the time, which it had entered in 1973 under the Conservative government of Edward Heath. Labour's manifesto for the October 1974 general election promised that the people would decide "through the ballot box"[1] whether to remain in the EEC. The electorate expressed significant support for EEC membership, with 67% in favour on a 65% turnout.
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_The campaign, funding and media support_

The government sent a pamphlet to every household in Britain in support of EEC membership.[10] According to this pamphlet, "the most important (issues in the renegotiation) were FOOD and MONEY and JOBS".

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[10] ^ HM Government (1975). Britain's new deal in Europe. http://www.harvard-digital.co.uk/euro/pamphlet.htm. Retrieved 26 November 2009."

I've included a couple of backup trackers in the torrent file but I dare say they'll be stripped out by ConCen's upload script when it adds the CC tracker passkey to the copy of the file it hosts.