{"id":1397,"date":"2013-02-18T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T08:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=1397"},"modified":"2013-02-18T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T08:46:20","slug":"ft-voters-normally-say-yes-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"FT: Voters Normally Say Yes to Europe!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting historical list of 37 EU referenda taken from the Financial Times Westminster Blog, with the headline that Voters normally say yes to Europe, as Britain trundles towards a possible referendum on EU membership<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. France 1972 (Enlargement) 68.3% YES
\n2. Ireland 1972 ? EEC Membership 83.1% YES
\n3. Norway 1972 EEC Membership 53% NO
\n4. United Kingdom 1975 (Renegotiation) 67% YES
\n5. Denmark 1986 (Single Act) 56% YES
\n6. Ireland 1987 (Single Act) 69% YES
\n7. Ireland 1992 (Maastricht) 69% YES
\n8. Denmark 1992 (Maastricht) 51% NO
\n9. France 1992 (Single Act) 51% YES
\n10. Denmark 1993 (Maastricht) 56% YES
\n11. Austria 1994 (Membership) 66% YES
\n12. Finland 1994 (Membership) 59% YES
\n13. Sweden 1994 Membership): 53% YES
\n14. Norway 1994 (Membership) 52% NO
\n15. Ireland 1998 (Amsterdam Treaty) 56% YES
\n16. Denmark 1998 (Amsterdam Treaty) 55% YES
\n17. Denmark 2000 (Euro) 56% NO
\n18. Ireland 2001 (Nice Treaty) 53% NO
\n19. Ireland 2002 (Nice Treaty) 62% YES
\n20. Sweden 2003 (Euro) 53% NO
\n21. Slovakia 2003 94 % YES
\n22. Malta 2004 (Membership) 53% YES
\n23. Slovenia 2004 (Membership) 89% YES
\n24. Hungary 2004 (Membership) 84% YES
\n25. Lithuania 2004 (Membership) 89% YES
\n26. Poland 2004 (Membership) 77%YES
\n27. Czech Republic 2004 (Membership) 77% YES
\n28. Estonia 2004 (Membership) 64% YES
\n29. Latvia 2004 (Membership) 67% YES
\n30. Spain 2005 (European Constitution) 7% YES
\n31. France 2005 (European Constitution) 54% NO
\n32. Netherlands 2005 (European Constitution) 61% NO
\n33. Luxembourg 2005 (European Constitution) 56% YES
\n34. Ireland 2009 (Lisbon Treaty) 53% NO
\n35. Ireland (Revised Lisbon treaty) 67% YES
\n36. Ireland 2012 (EU Fiscal Compact) 60% YES
\n37. Croatia 2012 (Membership) 67% YES<\/p>\n

According to the FT, this past experience would suggest that PM David Cameron could get away with his gamble that the British public would vote to remain in the EU if he can renegotiate some powers away from Brussels and back to the UK.
\nIs this sufficient evidence of his good judgment or is he taking too much of a gamble eg because UKIP and\/or elements within his own party have left him with no choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting historical list of 37 EU referenda taken from the Financial Times Westminster Blog, with the headline that Voters normally say yes to Europe, as Britain trundles towards a possible referendum on EU membership. 1. France 1972 (Enlargement) 68.3% YES 2. Ireland 1972 ? EEC Membership 83.1% YES 3. Norway 1972 EEC Membership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,157,154,113,1,147,152,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ft-voters-general-yes-to-eu","category-referendum-on-eu-membership","category-the-wrong-battle-federal-eu-chairmans-blog","category-tories-europe","category-welcome","category-what-about-ukip","category-what-to-do-about-ukip","category-yougov-lab-maj-30-con-maj-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}