The Eurosceptical Reader

419 Pages·1996·41.429 MB·English

by  Martin Holmes (eds.)

THE EUROSCEPTICAL READER
Also by Martin Holmes
BEYOND EUROPE: Selected Essays, 1989-93
BRITAIN AND TIlE EMS
FROM SINGLE MARKET TO SINGLE CURRENCY
MRS TIlATCHER, LABOUR AND THE EEC
POLITICAL PRESSURE AND ECONOMIC POLICY: British
Government, 1970--74
THATCHERISM: Scope and Limits, 1983-87
TIlE CONSERVATIVE PARTY AND EUROPE
THE FIRST THATCHER GOVERNMENT, 1979-83: Contemporary
Conservatism and Economic Change
THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, 1974-79: Political Aims and
Economic Reality
YUGOSLAVIA AND THE EEC
The Eurosceptical
Reader
Edited by
Martin Holmes
Lecturer in Politics
St Hugh's College
Oxford
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on the Contributors IX
List of Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1
Martin Holmes
PART I THE VIEW FROM THE LEFT
1 The Common Market 13
Hugh Gaitskell
2 The Common Market: Loss of Self-Government 38
Tony Benn
3 Speech to the Bruges Group, Reform Club,
24July 1990 42
Peter Shore
4 The Labour Party and Europe 50
Chris Rowley
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PART THE VIEW FROM THE RIGHT
5 Britain and Europe 75
Enoch Powell
6 The European Family of Nations 88
Margaret Thatcher
7 Selsdon Group Speech, 11 October 1994 97
Norman Lamont
8 The Conservative Party and Europe 110
Martin Holmes
PART In EUROSCEPTICAL POUTICAL ECONOMY
9 Trade Policy ofthe European Community 129
Brian Hindley
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10 The Price of Monetary Unification 149
Patrick Minford
11 Britain and the European Community: Past,
Present ... and an Unravelling Future? 167
Brian Burkitt and Mark Baimbridge
12 Europe and Regulation: The New
Totalitarianism 186
Christopher Booker
13 Agricultural Policy by the Year 2000 and
its Effects 205
Richard Howarth
14 Worlds Apart? 219
Bill Jamieson
PART IV HISTORICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL
EUROSCEPTICISM
15 National Self-Hatred and the EC 261
Kenneth Minogue
16 Churchill and Europe 269
Max Beloff
17 Monetary Policy after Maastricht: How Much
Independence will Britain Possess? 285
Martin Howe
18 British Scepticism and the European Union:
A Guide for Foreigners 303
L.] Sharpe
19 Sense on Sovereignty 342
Noel Malcolm
20 Britain and the Community: The Right Way
Forward 368
NevilJ ohnson
21 The Common Market: No Middle Way 389
Neil Marten
Index 401
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank all the contributors to this book for permission
to reprint articles or speeches which had already entered the
public domain. I am particularly indebted to those contribu
tors who reduced in length previously published longer arti
cles which could not appear in full in this volume because of
necessary space constraints.
My thanks are also due to my superb secretarial assistant,
Penelope Whitworth, for the speed and precision with which
she worked.
I would also like to thank the Principal and Fellows of St
Hugh's College for providing an atmosphere conducive to
scholarship and appreciative of research. Tim Farmiloe at the
publishers handled the manuscript with customary courtesy
and efficiency and I am grateful to him.
Needless to say, any errors in the following pages are my re
sponsibility alone.
St Hugh's College MARTIN HOLMES
Oxford
January 1996
The editor and publishers would like to thank the following
for their kind permission to include copyright material: the
Labour Party Information Resource Centre for the extract
from Hugh Gaitskell's 1962 Labour Party Conference speech;
the Selsdon Group for Norman Lamont's speech to the Group
at the 1994 Conservative Party Conference; 'Churchill and
Europe', © Max Beloff 1993, reprinted from Churchill, edited
by Robert Blake and Wm. Roger Louis (1993), by permission
of Oxford University Press; the Centre for Policy Studies for
'Britain and the EC: the Way Forward' by Nevil Johnson
(1993) and for 'Sense on Sovereignty' by Noel Malcolm
(1991); Lady Marten for Neil Marten's 'The Common Market:
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No Middle Way'. published by the Common Market Safeguard
Campaign (1974); Martin Howe for 'Monetary Policy after
Maastricht', published by the Centre for Policy Studies (1992);
and all the other contributors.
Notes on the Contributors
Mark Baimbridge is Lecturer in Economics at the University of
Bradford. He co-authored What 1992 Really Means: Single
Market or Double Cross? (1989), From Rome to Maastricht (1992)
and There is an alternative: Britain and its Relationship with the EU
(1996) for the Campaign for an Independent Britain. He has
published over fifty articles, mainly concerning Britain's rela
tionship with the EU, in learned and current affairs journal in
economics, sociology, politics and social policy. He has re
cently submitted his PhD thesis on Britain's membership of
the EU. He is a frequent contributor and commentator on
economic issues to radio and in newspapers.
Max Beloff is Emeritus Professor of Government and Public
Administration, and Emeritus Fellow of-All Souls College,
Oxford. His books include The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia;
Wars and Welfare: Britain, 1914-1945; and the two volumes of
Imperial Sunset: Britain's Liberal Empire 1897-1921 and Dream of
Commonwealth, 1921-1942. He is a Fellow of the British
Academy, and was created a Life Peer in 1981.
Tony Benn has been Labour MP for Chesterfield since 1984.
He was formerly Labour MP for Bristol South East 1950-60,
and 1963-83, and served as a minister in the Labour govern
ments 1964-70 and 1974-9. He contested the leadership of
the party in 1976 and 1988. His publications include his Diaries
and A Future for Socialism.
Christopher Booker is a journalist and author who writes regu
larly for the Daily Mail and Sunday Telegraph. His book with
Richard North, The Mad Officials, heightened public awareness
of the regulatory abuses of the EC's Single Market pro
gramme. Amongst his other publications are The Seventies and
The Games War: A Moscow Journal.
Brian Burkitt is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University
of Bradford in the Department of Social and Economic
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