Lincolnshire Voice

Partial extract from the UK Column newspaper:

In 1947 a group of back bench MP's led by Conservative Peter Thorneycroft, formed a "Design for Europe" committee which concluded in a report:

"No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance for the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European integration must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of its defence."

It is hard to believe that MP's were saying this just after the war had just been won, Ed

More info on Peter Thorneycroft here including:

He was instrumental in persuading the government in 1954 to abandon the party's support for protectionism.

Thorneycroft lost his seat at the 1966 general election and received a life peerage, taking a seat in the House of Lords as Baron Thorneycroft, of Dunston in the County of Stafford.

So you sell your country out and get made a Baron - Nice!, Ed