Left Right and Centre: 23.03.1981: Common Market

Summary

Bruce Grocott visits Uttoxeter in Staffordshire on market day to gauge opinion towards the European Union.

Year:

1981

Duration:

0:07:30

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Vox pops in Uttoxeter with people giving both positive and negative views towards the UK membership of the EEC. Shots of Uttoxeter town centre on market day followed by views of a cattle sale at the livestock market. With over production a factor in European farming the European Commission has now begun to pay farmers to stop milk production. Bruce Grocott talks to farmers in the cattle market bar about rising food prices. Views of sheep in pens. Interview with George Neish of the Agricultural Workers Union who is against the current terms of Common Market membership and Brian Baker of the NFU who is in favour.


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