Word: antimarket
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...Britain faces a divisive three months before the vote during which pro-Market industry and antiMarket unions will line up on different sides. Laborites will fight Laborites, and many British families will be more politically divided than they have been since the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. In short, Wilson may have worked out a formula for saving his own political neck-at the cost of hopelessly dividing the party that elected him as its standardbearer...
...will also have trouble when he seeks "fundamental renegotiation" of the terms under which Britain entered the Common Market. He hopes to obtain lower food prices for Britain and a reduction in London's contributions to the Market's budget. Any renegotiation must partially satisfy the strong antiMarket feelings of Labor's left wing and of Renegade Tory Enoch Powell (who claims that his endorsement of Wilson during the campaign won the election for Labor) and yet not go so far as to unite the pro-Market Tories and Liberals. Wilson has set a twelve-month deadline...
...reason, however, was that the newly arrived British delegation had declared its ambitious intention of turning the European Parliament into a sort of continental Westminster. "We are going to operate as if this were our own Parliament." declared Peter Kirk. 44. leader of the 21-person British delegation (the antiMarket Labor Party declined to send its allotted 15 delegates). "We will make this a real backbenchers' Parliament." He added, somewhat undiplomatically: "Too bad it will be difficult to interrupt all those foreign-language speeches, but I suppose it can't be helped...
...predicted by numerous opinion polls, the referendum's results shocked Common Market capitals. In Denmark, Premier Jens Otto Krag, who had warned his people that a negative Danish vote could mean devaluation, unemployment and a reduction of welfare services, was forced to suspend foreign exchange transactions. In London, antiMarket forces claimed that Norway's rejection would reduce Britain's influence on EEC decisions and demanded a referendum for Britons, even though Parliament has already assented to EEC entry. In Brussels, where news of the vote was received by worried Common Market officials, a feeling of despondent resignation...
...voters put economic reality before nationalist rhetoric. In a highly emotional antiMarket campaign, Sinn Féin (Gaelic for "We Ourselves") distributed almost 1,000,000 pamphlets urging voters "once and for all to break the link with England by voting no to England's interests." One antiMarket billboard showed an ugly, cigar-chomping German industrialist saying "We need your little daughter in the Ruhr," a reference to the prospect that unemployed Irish workers might have to seek jobs on the Continent. Labor unions worried about "the oppressive open competition of European industrial society...