Word: antimarket
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...high food prices and fearful of losing British sovereignty to the Brussels-based Eurocracy. Britain's most powerful trade union leaders are dead set against the EEC. The pressures already are so great that the Labor Party may soon be forced to take an antiMarket position. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Deputy Party Leader Roy Jenkins would have preferred to keep the party's options open until the regular party convention in October. But a group of antiMarket Labor M.P.s, led by fiery Barbara Castle, last week forced the party leadership to agree to hold a special...
...irony is that this time it is the British who may keep themselves out of the Common Market. British sentiment has turned sharply against a linkup. Aware of the strong antiMarket tide, Heath said last week that he would not submit the entry issue to Parliament until after the summer recess and the annual party conferences in early October. By that time he hopes that an extensive government publicity campaign will have rallied grass-roots support for EEC membership, but it is just as possible that the opposition will have become more deeply entrenched. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...managed the recent Heath campaign. The view on the Continent is that the Conservatives' victory has enhanced Britain's prospect of joining Europe. Not necessarily. Some observers believe that Harold Wilson, who has never been as deeply committed to Market entry as Heath, may try to rally antiMarket sentiment in both parties as a means of thwarting the new Prime Minister's ambition...
Britain's new antiMarket mood was disappointing to EEC members. In 1961 and 1967, London submitted earnest, almost desperate applications for membership, only to see them unceremoniously vetoed by Charles de Gaulle. When the general was replaced last June by a French government more sympathetic to British entry, the Common Market ministers quickly began studying the possibility of reopening negotiations with Britain and three other applicants (Ireland, Norway and Denmark...
Plea for Wealth. Government big guns blasted the antiMarket forces. Said Heath in a solidly professional, fact-filled speech: "Europe is incomplete without Britain, and we in Britain are incomplete without Europe." Savagely, Deputy Prime Minister Rab Butler tore into the Labor Party's antiMarket position, called Hugh Gaitskell's antiMarket address at the recent Labor Party conference "a passionately backward-looking speech." The Socialists. Butler said, "have decided to look backward. For them, 1,000 years of history books; for us, the future." Foreign Secretary Lord Home eloquently tied economics to world politics: "With every restrictive practice...