Roy Jenkins interview | Common Market | Europe | Labour Party | 1980

Next month Roy Jenkins returns to Britain after four years as President of the European Commission.
Before leaving Brussels for good, Mr Jenkins has agreed to an exclusive TV EYE interview.
Faced by Liew Gardner, he will talk of his views on the state of the Common Market and whether or not his four years in Europe
have tempered his enthusiasm for the Market. And they will talk about his political future and the possibility of a new Centre party
First shown: 11/12/1980
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[@MVERLAINE1]

Great politician who really understood and avocated the real value and immense benefits of the European Union

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

CAP and CFP were a disgrace, a shocking scandal.
We paid over £300 BILLION during 47 wasted years, a shocking rip-off.

[@rfurdaylee]

Oh! So he wasn't very knowledgeable then. Ok.

[@ParcelOfRogue]

Britain's alternative future, to be more open, better invested in, more productive, faster growing, higher living standards and properly manned.

[@jonathanleblanc2140]

How apropos, thanks ThamesTV, more like this!!!

[@merrymonarch]

Good to see this

[@sportstrader2175]

A great politician/statesman, dripping with integrity.

[@rfurdaylee]

He couldn't roll his tongue round his arse.

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

Just like his side-kick Shirley Williams, he woofs and waffles about ''the benefits of Europe''
but dodges the point Llew makes about the decimation of the UK fishing industry.
The EEC was a Franco/German stitch-up to asset strip the UK.
By now the scandal of the CAP was all too obvious and it was costing billions of UK cash to fund it
but it barely benefitted the British farmer. The French troughers were neck deep in our cash.

[@rfurdaylee]

There are no benefits for the UK in Europe. Ergo, BREXIT.

[@johnmoore9862]

It’s so much better now……… post Brexit 😂.

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

@@rfurdaylee UK exports to EU now at record levels..in spite of their obstructive red tape and intransigent attitude.

[@rfurdaylee]

​@@malthusXIII-fo3epBrexit was ONLY about sovereignty. Nothing else. Unfortunately the Tory government effed it all up.😢

[@SteppenwolfHarryHall]

He would have been such a Remoaner had he lived longer. GET BREXIT DONE.

[@wy4817]

And look where you are now you troglodyte.

[@nautilusshell4969]

Get Brexit Done? Still?

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

Thank dear God, we are out,...a shocking disaster from Day One, a massive Franco/German rip-off.

[@rfurdaylee]

​@@malthusXIII-fo3epBrilliant.🎉

[@johnmoore9862]

This is it! The EU exit all you superior intellectuals wanted & voted for.

[@briandelaney9710]

Woy! The old elitist