Robert Saunders

@redhistorian

Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Co-director , Reader

Oxford
Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2013.

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    15. ožu 2018.

    It's out! My book "Yes to Europe: The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain" is published today - a snip at £24.99. Warmest thanks to everyone .

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    Congratulations to my Westminster Journalist colleagues for standing firm against Number 10's Baby Trumpism. Quite right.

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    Refreshingly honest of the Telegraph to reveal that they weren't reporting news, or informing their readership but rather waging a war against the EU for 40 years.

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    This was another good line from : "They say we're a small island punching above our weight, never stopping to ask why it is that we're punching at all".

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    This should be a no-brainer: if an honours system is to be open to all, it cannot shut out those who refuse to wear an association with "empire" as a badge of "honour".

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  8. 31. sij

    "Remain with us, for evening comes and the day is spent". As we come to the end of the road, some music of beauty and consolation. Rheinberger's "Abendlied", or "Evening song".

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    31. sij

    This is really excellent. Best thing I’ve read on Britain & Europe in ages.

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  10. 31. sij

    16. Brexit requires a fundamental recasting of Britain’s national strategy. Achieving that will require more imagination, more humility & a more clear-eyed appreciation of the options than anyone has yet offered in Britain’s tortured Brexit debate. [ENDS]

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  11. 31. sij

    15. Brexit means we are going to have to find new answers to some serious strategic dilemmas. If we pretend those dilemmas do not exist, or if we simply go back to old answers because we have forgotten why they were rejected in the first place, disaster lies ahead.

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  12. 31. sij

    14. The danger is that a Euroscepticism birthed in the 1990s - when trade wars, security threats & great power competition seemed a thing of the past - and marinated in mythic visions of a past when Britain "stood alone" - refuses to face the strategic dilemmas that lie ahead.

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  13. 31. sij

    13. Those assumptions were broadly accepted by every government until 2016. Their collapse re-opens all the big strategic questions of British politics. It is possible that better answers might emerge in future; yet there has been little sign of the new strategic thinking needed.

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  14. 31. sij

    12. Campaigning in 1975, Thatcher dismissed the idea that Britain could reclaim its national sovereignty simply by leaving the EEC.

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  15. 31. sij

    11. Diplomatically, Thatcher bowed to no one in her determination that Britain should cut a dash in the world. But she saw membership as a continuation, not a rejection, of Britain’s global role.

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  16. 31. sij

    10. That consensus held in government from 1961 to 2016. Even Margaret Thatcher, in her most Eurosceptic phase as prime minister, insisted in the notorious Bruges Speech that "Our destiny is in Europe, as part of the Community".

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  17. 31. sij

    9. The result was a fundamental reorientation of British strategy. The goals would remain the same, but Europe would become the central instrument of British policy.

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  18. 31. sij

    8. By the early 1960s, Britain's national strategy seemed to have run out of road. That was brutally exposed by Dean Acheson, in a famous speech at West Point.

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  19. 31. sij

    7. Meanwhile, sovereignty seemed to be leaking away to currency markets, the International Monetary Fund and trade blocs setting the rules of trade.

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  20. 31. sij

    6. Yet each of those strategies collapsed over the "long" 1950s. While the EEC surged ahead economically, Britain's share of Commonwealth markets contracted rapidly. Neither the Commonwealth nor the "Special Relationship" provided the hoped-for platform for British power.

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  21. 31. sij

    5. Britain in 1945 confronted a series of major challenges. Its economy was exhausted, it was heavily in debt and it was battling colonial insurgencies. It initially attempted to rebuild its strength outside Europe: chiefly through the Commonwealth and the "Special Relationship".

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