Even in 1962, when this Look at Life was made and being shown in cinemas, it was realised that the ultimate aim of the founders of the Common Market was to turn it into the United States of Europe.
@Jack Warner You see how we do as an isolated collection of small islands just off the coast of Europe. You thickos will one day deny ever thinking Brexit was a good idea.
As opposed to the four (at least) Nations that make up the UK which has two Parliaments and two Assemblies? The United States of The British Isles in other words. Don't understand your point. Love and peace.
I remember seeing this Special Edition Look At Life (nearly 18 minutes instead of the usual 9) at the cinema in August, 1962. As can be heard about 14 minutes in, the politicians ultimate goal for the Common Market was a United States of Europe. So they knew it even in 1962, eleven years before we in the UK joined.
It became an absolute disaster for us, that's why we had to leave.They became power crazy. Unfortunately our leaders wanted to stay.
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99% of the European government was men, women hardly in evidence at all. I wonder if the founders had any idea what was going to happen once they added member countries accessible from Africa and the Middle East? 2000 civil servants even back then, I wonder how many there are now.
I ❤these Rank Look At Life Such different times, different people. I remember all this EEC stuff General De Gaulle saying ‘NO, NO, NO to Britain joining It took some extra years but we joined under Heath Government Look where we are no with BREXIT done. Well NOT quite 🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🥴🥴
+richard kendrick Amazing isn't it? We've been at war with most of our so-called european partners in times past. Now the french president says he's not going to boot foreign criminals out and revoke their froggie citizenship. The EU won't be happy until they've turned the whole of itself into a multiculti dump. Where I live in England they're doing a good job of that too. Go out of my front door, and you will probably hear a foreign language before English. Not to mention all the Jeremy Kyle style chavs...
Bent? It was all going swimmingly until David Cameron decided to allow the thickest cunts in Britain to decide what we should do next. We’re the only country ever to impose economic sanctions on itself.
We didnt know we would have zero power to prevent or change shoddy laws and we didnt know they would destroy our fishing industry to name but two on a long list of scandal
@@annother3350 - I’ll stop you there. We had full sovereignty and power of our borders and laws. You’ve been lied to. And I don’t know if you follow the news [the factual type] but Brexit has finished off our fishing industry. What annoys me more than anything is David Cameron’s decision to allow thickos like you to decide the direction of our country. It’s like asking a dog to drive a train.
@@davesaunders3334 I'm well read mate -- you havent got a clue about me or what brexit was about. Cant you see it yet? or perhaps you dont want to -- every time a country goes against the wishes of the EU they're threatened with sanctions and fines. Nobody can vote out the presidents of the EU, even if another Hitler was to come along -- that's a crazy system we should want no part of. Then there was the vaccine debacle where the EU raided astra zeneca and tried to hold the vaccines to ransom just because the EU hadnt bothered to order the vaccines in time. No, I love Europe -- want nothing to do with the EU as an organisation -- totally corrupt.
+richard kendrick The british steel firms? All sold out to TaTa of India. Lovely I don't think. China flooding the place with junk too. More like TaTa England...
And here we are in 2020 reviewing superb snapshots of the EU history and its vision. And realising the failings this eutopic view then has become now. The Italian car industry dead, the United states of Europe unable and unwilling to support COVID overwhelmed member states, those much praised barriers or lack of them all dropped whe the pandemic arrived. The happy clappy club that is the EU reverted back to self governing independence as they sought to look after "their own". The UK moves closer to removing itself from this stranglehold of a monopoly, much maligned and abused for responding to a massive democratic vote to leave. Notably the highest turnout of the electorate in British history, and with the biggest majority. Not a fact the idiot #fbpe brigade of abusers prefer to discuss, they prefer calling us fascists and Nazis. Incredible abuse all for using my vote. 30th June 2020 see's the UK effectively leave the EU. It is broken and only time will tell whether it can recover and actually share its wealth & trade opportunities to all its members.
Meanwhile, here in Britain, we wage through two world wars, see millions dead and then spend billions in reconstruction and developing a new infrastructure. We also invest thousands of man hours and many years into peace negotiations and trade agreemeents, to become a founding member of a united Europe, without barriers and without confliction. Years later, we elect a self-serving Prime Minister called Cameron, who guides the nation into a referendum called Brexit, where we literally take a century of political upheaval and throw the whole lot back into the face of all those who toiled, fought and died so that Europe might remain united in solidarity. But not to worry. The UK government has since hired the former PM as the Secretay of State, so he can represent the UK in Europe. You couldn't make it up. The GREAT BRITAIN you see in the Look at Life videos made 60+ years ago, is long, long gone....
I remember seeing a programme on the telly years ago, they showed an old reel-to-reel tape player playing Ted Heath's thoughts on this Common Market. One passage sticks in my mind " The Public must NEVER know what this could lead to" Says it all really. Treacherous sods. When I go out of my front door now, I can be 90% certain the first words I will hear won't be English. They'll be from Eastern Europe. Followed one tonight ,obviously pissed as a fart, driving his Romanian registered car. He was all over the road. His brake lights didn't work. Marvellous. Then we get the EU court telling us we can't kick foreign criminals or terrorists out as its "against their yuman rites innit".
Except that's NOT the EU court; that's the European court of human rights, which is separate form the EU, and nothing to do with the European court of justice, a mostly trade based body. The UK helped to set up the European court of human rights as it came out of the council of Europe, founded in 1949. Most people who support leave never bother to learn the difference.
The silver lining of the Euro fiasco was the fall of the Berlin wall. Eastern Europeans are savvy and know exactly what's going on in 2021 - they can smell BS before we do because they were subjected to it under communism. Most Eastern Europeans are an example of what decent people were like in Western Europe before the EU rot set in.
@@Mr71paul71 - Nigel Farage will end his days soaked in cheap vodka in a tower block on the outskirts of Moscow. You’ve been conned by Russian propaganda and the magnitude of your mistake will become more and more apparent over time. I don’t expect you to ever work it out. Thicko.
"Kept competition healthy by preventing harmful mergers and monopolies" how the fuck do you think the Apple/Microsoft thing and the Nike/Adidas thing and the Rolls-Royce/Pratt & Whitney thing and the Chinese/Indian thing are still going and there profits are growing at the fastest fucking rate? Even these bastards were conning us in 1962!
we joined because we were broke we had IMF bailouts and since then life has improved as for jobs going aboard that's down to owners selling up to either foreign firms or investment companies and stuff being made say in china with the old household brand names still on them this where we lost are jobs and pride .
So we decided to join, and then they stole our fish, gave themselves the right to make our laws, forbade us to make our own trade agreements, forced us to take in half a million low skilled immigrants every year, and charged us an annual fee of £13 billion. What mugs we were.
The unelected Eurocrats have a majority vote on something and then get the rubber stamping parliament to vote on it, The euro parliament can not propose of modify a bill ,just vote yes or no,
What the LAL never mentions is the incredible cost of securing the CM against the then real threat of Soviet domination. Easy to prosper if your defence relies on the UK & US (via Nato) doing the job.
I have stopped this video at 9-26 ... here is the factual account from a U.K./G.B. perspective. Our governments from the early 1960s tried to join all the way up to 1973 when we did join the European Economic Community the "E.E.C." now the E.U. in the 2016 referendum, the "little englanders" got what they wanted ... "little england!"
If the project had remained a free common market and not destined to be come a 'super-state', maybe all would have been well. At the time, the UK was concerned to retain the tariff-free status of the Commonwealth. When we eventually joined, it meant for instance, imposing tariffs on New Zealand produce thus creating big financial difficulties for their relatively small economy. With regard to 'ever closer union', the moulding of individual nations into a mega state is a frightening prospect. It would put enormous power in the hands of very few people; the famous novel 1984 is set in such a society and should be an awful warning to us all. Be careful what you wish for!
