Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 December 1973.
Mr Joel Barnett
, Heywood and Royton
12:00,
5 December 1973
Does the right hon. Gentleman understand that one does not have to be an anti-Marketeer to believe that it is a nonsense to come to the House with a statement covering so many subjects? Would he accept that we are likely to get the worst of all possible worlds if we pretend that we can get an economic and monetary union as quickly as he is suggesting until individual nations stop making national interests their paramount interest?