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Last week British Prime Minister Edward Heath also won a small but helpful vote of confidence on the EEC. Pro-Market Labor Party M.P.s, led by the rebellious Roy Jenkins (TIME, April 24), abstained on an antiMarket resolution, proposed by a group of backbench Tories who are fighting Heath on British membership, that would have submitted Britain's entry into EEC to a national referendum. The handy margin of Heath's victory on the vote-284 to 235-suggests that Britain's formal entry into the Ten will proceed unimpeded...
That inevitability has not quashed the passions of antiMarket Britons. Last week a determined group of them boarded the ferryboat Invicta at Dover and sailed across the English Channel to Calais to demonstrate against Britain's entry into the Common Market. The police were sanguine when the demonstrators unfurled banners reading "L'Entente Cordiale mais pas un mariage." But when they began to shout "Down with Pompidou!" French flics rushed aboard the ferry, tossed the banners overboard and reportedly roughed up some of the passengers...
Ever since, some parliamentary observers have been predicting an open break between Wilson and Jenkins. What finally brought it about was the recent effort of antiMarket Labor M.P.s to force a referendum on the Common Market, which might show that a majority of Britons were against it. Initially, Wilson opposed a referendum on constitutional grounds. After French President Georges Pompidou called for a popular vote in France, which will take place next week, and after Heath suggested the possibility of a plebiscite on the Northern Ireland border issue, Wilson again reversed his stand. He backed a proposal by the chairman...
There were domestic political considerations behind Pompidou's proposal, but its major impact was in Britain. Most notably, it put a new weapon in the hands of Britain's antiMarket politicians, who have been trying to force Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath to put the issue before the British public in just such a referendum. In Parliament, one group of antiMarket M.P.s in Heath's own party tabled a motion hailing Pompidou's "fundamentally democratic decision...
...Humbugs. Faced with a second and closer vote last week on some of the legislation necessary to put that decision into effect, Heath announced that he would resign and dissolve Parliament if the bill were defeated. The Prime Minister very nearly had to make good on that promise. As antiMarket Tory M.P.s defected to the opposition lobby, his government was saved by only eight votes, five of them from the tiny Liberal Party. Labor M.P.s danced up and down shouting "Resign!" and "Out! Out!" Opposition Leader Harold Wilson, who as Prime Minister had sought Common Market membership for Britain...