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Status anxiety

I'm voting 'leave' to go back to the 1970s. What's wrong with that?

Staying in the European Union will mean the ebbing away of everything that makes our nation different and ­special

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

I don’t remember the last European referendum being nearly as dramatic as the current one. In 1975, we were being asked about our membership of the Common Market, not the -European Union, so there was less at stake — at any rate, that’s what the inners -wanted us to believe.

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