• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Indeed. But she was a vehement opponent of the Maastricht Treaty, and opposed further EU integration the whole time she was in the House of Lords.

    Her Bruges speech in 1988 made it very clear what she thought about moves towards a more federal Europe.

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                  1 year ago

                  So they are defacto the same? And probably Maggie’s views on it would have been more nuanced than you first suggested? Shed like the EEC bits not the others?

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                    1 year ago

                    I imagine she would have supported the economic union (EFTA/EEA etc) but she opposed the political union and any legislation related to it in the House of Lords, so I think it’s a stretch to say she’d have been a supporter of Remain.

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      1 year ago

      It seems like a leap to believe that the architect of the single market would have supported the UK leaving the single market.

      Not all Eurosceptics became Brexiters. David Cameron, George Osborne, William Hague, Philip Hammond - all genuine and vocal critics of political aspects of the EU who voted and campaigned Remain.

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        1 year ago

        Who said anything about leaving the single market?

        You don’t have to be in the EU to be in the single market.