20 March 1965: broadcast of “The Centre”, sixth episode of the story we now call The Web Planet. The Doctor and Vicki are captured by the Animus; but Ian and the Optera attack from below, and Barbara and the Menoptera from above, and Barbara destroys it.
20 March 1971: broadcast of second episode of The Claws of Axos. The British are determined to control the world’s supply of Axonite; the Axons, however, are a parasitic organism intending to suck the planet of all its energy.
You may well be right: my futurological powers in matters of party politics have been proved feeble on several occasions. But what I would hope would happen is that in the context of a referendum (were it to happen) the pro-EU faction would get off their bottoms and make a populist case to compete with the rhetoric of their opponents.
The pro-EU cause isn’t helped by a largely hostile press, certainly, but its proponents seem very disinclined to make a positive case for staying in, at any rate in a populist forum. Their two tactics seem to be a) to talk vaguely about “the incalculable benefits this country derives from membership of…” but without managing to make these seem real or tangible, and b) to use threatening/insulting language about how Britain on its own would be a pitiful off-shore island harvesting nothing but drizzle – which, if they haven’t seen how badly it plays I’m not going to be the one to tell them. A crisis such as a referendum might awake them from their slumbers – or I would hope so, anyway.