Meaning of "the Treaties" and "the Community Treaties"

Part of Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill – in the House of Commons at 6:45 pm on 3 December 1997.

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Photo of Steve Pound Steve Pound Labour, Ealing North 6:45, 3 December 1997

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that information, which I will add to the small store of knowledge that I have accrued in the short time I have been in the House. I was under the impression that the work was called "The Wealth of Nations", but I understand that Adam Smith originally wrote it in Scottish so it may possibly have lost something in translation when we first read it in Fulham.

7 pm

We have heard about things hurtling across the channel like V Is or doodlebugs. That to me is indicative of what I called the inherently anti-European emotions that we have heard from Conservative Members. Indeed, I feel that if someone offered some Conservative Members a Christmas pudding for nothing and it was revealed that it had been boiled in Brussels they would strike it from the hand of the donor, and should there be French brandy on the Christmas pudding it would be drop-kicked into the Thames without a second thought.