Foreign Issues And EEC Membership

Question 1

Common market EEC membership under Wilson ?

Answer 1

1967 veto by De Gaulle
- satisfied eurosceptics in it’s failure and pro European cabinet members in its attempt

Question 2

Vietnam ?

Answer 2

Caused more discomfort amongst party and public on both sides
- left saw policies as aggressive and colonial with spread of communism to some seen to be acceptable with polls showing 81% of public against the war in 1966

Question 3

What did Johnson do ?
What did Wilson do

Answer 3

Urged British troops to fight going so far as to in 1967 offer a fix to economic problems

Refused war but supported the US against the ‘communist infiltration’
- internal conflict of interest seen as failure as neither side were satisfied and by 1970 voters accociated Wilson with right wing policies