Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Rethinking the birth of the EU" video.

As a kid overseas in the late 60s-early 70s, I knew this completely as fact. Thanks to the late and excellent Alistair Cooke who used to write his erudite, thought-provoking and perfectly composed Letters from America and send them off to the BBC World Service. I was an avid listener. Mr Cooke had an abiding interest in Monnet and Schumann's big wheeze. Over countless episodes, he laid out the covert plan in great and well-researched detail. Of course, these Letters were not broadcast in GB. That would probably have scuppered any talk of GB membership. The BBC was in its nascent woke period even then. Mr Cooke was plain: it was all about making a United States of Europe by stealth. I thought it all dastardly. By the time of the 1975 referendum I was only just about old enough to vote. My very first vote was a resounding NO! to what I knew was to be the USE. Because we had been conned into it, because they'd lied about their purpose, because you cannot vote for something without knowing what you're getting. There was no informed consent. It was an absolutely illegitimate , entirely deceitful referendum.
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