On Britain joining the European Economic Community:

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state … it means the end of a thousand years of history.


Speech to the Labour Party Conference, 3 October 1962. As reported in: The Growth of the British Party System: 1924-1964 (J. Baker, 1965), p. 253

Hugh Gaitskell Quotes

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state … it means the end of a thousand years of history.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state … it means the end of a thousand years of history.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state … it means the end of a thousand years of history.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state … it means the end of a thousand years of history.