The Great Deception by Christopher Booker

Author:Christopher Booker
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472939678
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-03-18T11:24:15+00:00

1 Jamieson, Bill (1994), Britain Beyond Europe (London, Duckworth), p. 72.

2 Corbett, op. cit., pp. 299–300.

3 The Independent, 13 December 1990. Cited in Grant, op. cit., p. 151.

4 Time International, 17 December 1990, p. 42.

5 Ibid.

6 Grant, op. cit., p. 172.

7 Grant, op. cit., p. 151.

8 Time International, 4 February 1991, p. 45.

9 Major, John (1999), John Major – The Autobiography (London, HarperCollins), pp. 231–232.

10 Time International, 11 February 1991, p. 46.

11 Ibid.

12 Grant, op. cit., p. 186.

13 Time International, 22 April 1991, p. 24.

14 Grant, op. cit., p. 186.

15 Hogg, Sarah, and Hill, Jonathan (1995), Too Close To Call: Power And Politics – John Major in No. 10 (London, Little, Brown and Company), p. 78.

16 Ibid.

17 Major, op. cit., p. 269.

18 Ibid.

19 Hansard, 26 June 1991, col. 1005.

20 Ibid., col. 1009.

21 Ibid., cols. 1028–1029.

22 Almond, Mark (1998), Europe’s Backyard War – The War in the Balkans (London, Heinemann), pp. 32–32. See also The Death of Yugoslavia.

23 Ibid., p. 42. It was Britain’s Douglas Hurd who had first proposed that the Community should look forward to welcoming the Yugoslav federation as a member.

24 Ibid.

25 Ibid., p. 33.

26 Ibid.

27 Hansard, 4 July 1991, col. 328.

28 Major, op. cit., p. 271.

29 Ibid.

30 Ibid., p. 274.

31 Forster, Anthony (2002), Euroscepticism In Contemporary British Politics (London, Routledge), p. 97.

32 Hansard, 20 November 1991, cols. 297–298.

33 Ibid.

34 Grant, op. cit., p. 197.

35 Ibid., p. 198.

36 Ibid., p. 200.

37 Major, op. cit., p. 276.

38 Cited in Major, op. cit., p. 277.

39 Ibid., p. 280.

40 Ibid., p. 284.

41 Ibid., p. 287.

42 Hogg and Hill, op. cit., p. 155.

43 Cowgill, Anthony (1992), The Maastricht Treaty in Perspective – the Consolidated Treaty on European Union (Stroud, British Management Data Foundation), pp. xvii–l.

44 Cited in Grant, op. cit., p. 203.

45 Hansard, 11 December 1991, col. 862.

46 Ibid., col. 873.

47 Major, op. cit., p. 288.

48 Hansard, 18 December 1991, col. 275.

49 A few days later Germany was to make a mockery of the ‘common foreign policy’ when, on 23 December, it defied agreed EC policy by unilaterally recognising the independence of Slovenia and Croatia. This might have seemed an admirable recognition of the right of these nations to self-determination, particularly since Croatia was fighting desperately for survival against a ruthless Serb invasion, but it brought much opprobrium on Germany for having broken ‘Community solidarity’.

50 Hansard, 18 December 1991, col. 292.

51 Ibid., col. 323.

52 Ibid., col. 357.

53 Ibid., col. 378.

54 Ibid., col. 506.

55 Ibid., col. 507.

56 Hurd’s admission that he had not read the Treaty was later to be more famously echoed by his Cabinet colleague Kenneth Clarke.

57 It was produced by Brigadier Anthony Cowgill at the British Management Data Foundation. The 1,500 copies were bought by Sir Keith Joseph of the Centre for Policy Studies for distribution. A definitive version with analysis was published in October 1992, and distributed, inter alia, by HM Stationery Office, thus giving it semi-official status.

58 Hansard, 20 May 1992, col. 270.

59 Ibid., 21 May 1992, col. 519.

60 Forster, op. cit., p. 88.

61 Hansard, 20 May 1992, col.

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