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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
trade will continue, tariff free ... all the rest is politics, and peoples political preferences. There was never agreement in this area and never will be and thats why Tony Blair didnt ask for a referendum when we signed the Maastricht treaty. This is all pay back for that
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Tony Blair didn't sign the Maastricht treaty, that was the Cons and Major.
Tony Blair wasn't even leader of the Labour party at the Maastricht treaty time.
All the treaties signed most under the Cons in their 18 years of unbroken power, were never put to the UK in a referendum.
There were amendments later as other Nations joined.
Blair definitely was in favour of joining the Euro too.
Which he wasn't given the green light to do by his then Chancellor Gordon Brown.
However the whole concept of the Maastricht treaty was in 1992, when Major was PM.
In fact he had a nightmare time of things apparently then from his own backbenchers.