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I realized just now that it was fifty years ago today that the referendum whether to remain in the then EEC (European Economic Community) was held.

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1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Unit … referendum

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Fifty years? Wow!

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Each day then, as now, called 'today' at the time.

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“Tomorrow never comes.”

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Alfred wrote:

“Tomorrow never comes.”

Tomorrow -- and tomorrow --- creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

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Tomorrow -- and tomorrow ---

… and tomorrow,

creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

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Is that why the 1960s television series All Our Yesterdays had the title that it did?

The programme each week showed cinema newsreels fom 25 years ago that week.

So long ago to me was 25 years ago when I saw those programmes.

Yet now, remembering election night broadcasts from the 1970s ...

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Is that why the 1960s television series All Our Yesterdays had the title that it did?

That seems an entirely reasonable assumption! It should be easy enough to look it up if you feel inclined to check.

The programme each week showed cinema newsreels from 25 years ago that week.

So long ago to me was 25 years ago when I saw those programmes.

Yet now, remembering election night broadcasts from the 1970s ...

It always feels slightly alarming that I can remember things from forty or fifty years ago more easily than I can remember things from forty or fifty minutes ago! Having said that, I don’t actually remember much detail from old election broadcasts. I do, however, remember the flavour of them, as so neatly encapsulated in a Monty Python sketch:

Interviewee: Can I just say this is the first time I’ve been on television?

Interviewer: I’m sorry, there isn’t time.

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One very interesting thing I remember from one of the results programmes of the 1979 election, the general election when Labour lost power and Mrs Thatcher became Prime Minister, was that the Labour Home Secretary was one of the guests in the studio.

The car bringing Mr Callaghan from Buckingham Palace after his resignation was shown and the television man asked the Home Secretary whether that meant he was no longer Home Secretary. The Home Secretary replied no, that it would all be sorted out in the next few days, but he was still Home Secretary at the present time.

I think it was the 1979 election when in the night television crews were in the street outside Mrs Thatcher's residence and the BBC presenter said they were going to take us to outside Mrs Thatcher's residence and on came the picture, showing Anna Ford, a then ITN news reporter, and the BBC man said "Oh, I don't think we should be seeing her."