Word: antimarket
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...ministerial massacre had undermined public confidence in the government and caused Macmillan's popularity to plunge to new lows in the public-opinion polls. Committed though he was to British entry into the Common Market, his leadership seemed to be faltering. There were alarmed predictions that rising antiMarket sentiment would split the party. In this atmosphere of fretful uncertainty, the Tories met for their annual party conference in the Welsh resort of Llandudno -and ringingly endorsed both the Common Market and Harold Macmillan...
...public debate later, the antiMarket forces, led by two former Health Ministers. Robert Turton and Sir Derek Walker-Smith, forcefully invoked the catch phrase of "Queen, country and Commonwealth.'' But the old arguments failed to rouse a cold audience. When an anti-Marketeer said that Britain's young people were against going into the Market. cries of ''Rubbish'' and "Nonsense" filled the hall...
Remember Vimy Ridge. Sounding even more antiMarket than the Commonwealth Prime Ministers last month, Gaitskell argued that British entry "means the end of Britain as an independent national state. It means the end of 1,000 years of history. It means the end of the Commonwealth. For how could we serve as the center of the Commonwealth when we had become a province of Europe?" More and more resembling a Tory empire-firster, Gaitskell drew massive applause by reminding the party of the Commonwealth's support in two World Wars. "We at least," he intoned, "do not intend...
...Tory right wing is anti-Common Market, believing Britain is still physically powerful enough to go it alone as a great power; e.g., they regret the abortive Suez invasion only as a failure of nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought...