Ας δούμε και λίγο την ιστορία της Βρετανίας στην Ε.Ε.
Παρακαλούσαν να μπούν και οι Γάλλοι δεν τους ήθελαν γιατί τους θεωρούσαν οικονομικά ασύμβατους. Οι δύο πρώτες αιτήσεις τους απορρίφθηκαν. Μόνο όταν ο Ντε Γκωλ έφυγε έγιναν δεκτοί.
Η αγωνία των Βρετανών να μπούν στην Ε.Ε., ήταν το γεγονός ότι ήδη απο τα 60ς, το εμπόριο με τις χώρες της Ευρώπης είχε ξεπεράσει αυτό με τις χώρες της Κοινοπολιτείας. Χρειαζόταν την ευρωπαϊκή αγορά.
The UK was not a signatory of the three original treaties that were incorporated into what was then the European Communities, including the most well known of these, the 1957 Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community (EEC). Britain first began talks to join the EEC in July 1961. The UK's applications to join in 1963 and 1967 were vetoed by the President of France, Charles de Gaulle, who said that "a number of aspects of Britain's economy, from working practices to agriculture" had "made Britain incompatible with Europe" and that Britain harboured a "deep-seated hostility" to any pan-European project.
Once de Gaulle had relinquished the French presidency in 1969, the UK made a third and successful application for membership. By this time attitudes to Britain joining the EEC had shifted in political and business circles in both the UK and France: by the late 1960s exports from Britain to western Europe outstripped those to countries participating in Imperial Preference and British investment in the EEC was faster than that going to the Commonwealth. Large firms in advanced manufacturing became increasingly vocal advocates of joining the EEC, and the Confederation of British Industry, whose predecessor the Federation of British Industries had originally opposed the establishment of a European customs union after World War II, stressed the importance of pan-European investment, collaboration and coordinated industrial policy. In France, government and business opinion were increasingly aware that American firms were dominating high-tech sectors and were better at organising integrated production networks in Europe than local companies, in part due to the fragmentation of European businesses, as argued by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber in his 1967 book Le défi américain. In response, senior French civil servants and the country's main employer's organisation, the Conseil national du patronat français, lobbied to reverse de Gaulle's policy regarding British membership.
The question of sovereignty had been discussed at the time in an official Foreign and Commonwealth Office document. It listed among "Areas of policy in which parliamentary freedom to legislate will be affected by entry into the European Communities": Customs duties, Agriculture, Free movement of labour, services and capital, Transport, and Social Security for migrant workers. The document concluded (paragraph 26) that it was advisable to put the considerations of influence and power before those of formal sovereignty.
The Treaty of Accession was signed in January 1972 by the then prime minister Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative Party. Parliament's European Communities Act 1972 was enacted on 17 October, and the UK's instrument of ratification was deposited the next day (18 October), letting the United Kingdom's membership of the EC come into effect on 1 January 1973.
Παρακάτω, το 1974 οι Εργατικοί πουλούσαν σανό ότι θα πιέσουν και θα πάρουν προνομιακούς όρους απο την τότε ΕΕ, και έτσι 1975 έγινε δημοψήφισμα για την παραμονή η όχι (με το οποίο θα χτυπούσαν νταούλια για να πάρουν καλύτερους όρους), το οποίο και κέρδισε με 67% το ΝΑΙ.
Το 1990, και τα δύο κόμματα εξουσία ψήφισαν την Συνθήκη του Μάαστριχ. Στις επόμενες εκλογές, ένας περίεργος κατέβηκε με κόμμα δημοψηφίσματος και πήγε άπατος:
Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French financier, tycoon and politician who was a member of the prominent Goldsmith family.
In 1994 he was elected to represent a French constituency as a Member of the European Parliament. He founded the short-lived Eurosceptic Referendum Party in the United Kingdom, and was one of the key power-brokers in British political circles that initiated party political opposition to the country's membership of the European Union.
Πάμε και λίγη συνομωσιολογία:
His father Frank Goldsmith changed the family name from the German Goldschmidt to the English Goldsmith. The Goldschmidts, neighbours and rivals to the Rothschild family, were a wealthy, Frankfurt-based, Jewish family, who had been influential figures in international merchant banking since the 16th Century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goldsmith 
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