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...Government's reaction, after all this time, remains tepid; even the decision to apply for membership in the E.E.C. was voted in a fashion extraordinarily nonchalant. The reaction of Labour remains officially non-existent. The Common Market has got the attention it deserves only from the press, notably the Economist, the Guardian, and the Observer, who have studied it, shouted about it, and provided most of the intelligent debate about it for months. Their opinion is strongly pro-European (for membership), and unlike their friends in Westminster they are not afraid to proselytize...
...efforts the economic questions, at least, have grown more familiar, though scarcely less complex. Nobody doubts that the E.E.C. is a highly dynamic group of nations. Aided by the Marshall Plan and an ever-increasing amount of U.S. investment, it has accomplished far more among the Six than the Labour Government of 1945 ever hoped for in Britain. The members have developed new raw materials, a newly skilled labor force, and a new approach to long-range planning; both capital and labor begin to move freely among them. By 1970, when the last internal tariffs are removed, the Common Market...
...Labour much better off. At the Blackpool conference Hugh Gaitskell managed to persuade the delegates to adopt a moderate platform ("Signposts for the Sixties") and to vote overwhelmingly against the unilateral disarmament policy that they approved last year. The unilateralist left under Frank Cousins has growled that it will not be reconciled to defeat, and indeed Mr. Cousins has not done too badly. Although the majority of the party's National Executive is Gaitskellite, the minority is almost exclusively, extremely and intransigeantly leftist...
...Labour, which recruits its members from all classes, nonetheless suffers from its extremists for more or less the same reasons. Mr. Cousins would like nothing better than to lead a general strike, and, if he had the chance, to nationalize practically every major industry. At the moment when Mr. Gaitskell pleas earnestly for a classless society the leftists manage to sharpen and accentuate class differences...
...that the electorate couldn't care less about the Common Market. At Brighton, Mr. Macmillan mentioned neither that the Government had been shockingly hesitant and inconsistent about applying for membership in the E.E.C. nor even that Britain could not join without sacrificing to some degree Commonwealth relations. At Blackpool, Labour refused to come to any decision at all; resolutions for and against were tabled rapidly, and there...