ronib
My husband thought it was a mistake to join the EU in the first place. He would argue that we were misled then.
Your husband might well be one of those who've made it their business to 'keep-up' (as they say) with all the ins-and-outs of what our membership entailed.
As for being misled then - well governments always 'slant' their rhetoric don't they according to the outcome they hope for? However, technology has now made it possible to 'persuade' or steer people in a chosen direction - 'Vote Leave' spent upward of £2.5 million on targeting ads at specific groups of people on Facebook, for example. Something that wasn't possible during the initial referendum. No social media to propagate fake or misleading news - either way.
However, whether we were really misled when we joined the EEC is debatable.
In 73, Heath wrote for the London Illustrated News:
"The community which we are joining is far more than a common market. It is a community in the true sense of that term."
“It is concerned not only with the establishment of free trade, economic and monetary union and other major economic issues, important though these are — but also as the Paris Summit Meeting has demonstrated, with social issues which affect us all — environmental questions, working conditions in industry, consumer protection, aid to development areas and vocational training.”
... and this government pamphlet (I've still got mine) sent to every household in 75 which makes it clear that by remaining in the EC...
Britain has a ‘say in the future economic and political development of the Common Market.’
Were we misled? Did you see the NO campaign literature at the time, also distributed to every household - that made it quite clear?
