ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationship between Britain and European Economic Community. The Community to which Britain was now apparently committed was not, however, a static entity. It was a momentum which left British governments and a substantial section, perhaps a majority, of the British people, distinctly uneasy. It reflected the particular tensions within the Labour Party rather than any fundamental conversion on the part of parliamentarians to the view that such matters should be put to such a test. And, although there appeared to be a finality about the referendum outcome, there remained deep divisions within the British political class, and within the country at large, about what the British place in 'Europe' should be. Intrusion, is not confined to scrutinizing corporate commercial behaviour. European Community law, as interpreted by the European Court, takes precedence over domestic law. The public rituals of British life seem, at certain levels, to continue as if 'Europe' did not exist.
