Twenty years ago, I was an anti-European. Today, I am a pro-European. The strange thing is that my views have not changed. I have always thought that Britain should stay out of the euro but inside the EU. During the John Major and Tony Blair years, when the euro was the dominant issue, that position made me a eurosceptic. But now the argument has become about whether Britain should leave the EU altogether. The front-line in Britain’s civil war over Europe has moved and, because I have stayed in the same place, I find myself on a different side of the battle-lines.
20年前，我是反歐洲者。現在，我是親歐洲者。但奇怪的是，我的觀點并未改變。我一直主張英國應當置身于歐元區以外，但留在歐盟(EU)。在英國前首相約翰?梅杰(John Major)和托尼?布萊爾(Tony Blair)當政的年代，歐元是主導一切的議題，因此我的立場讓我成為歐洲懷疑論者。但如今的爭論已變成：英國應否徹底脫離歐盟？英國在歐洲問題上的“內戰”前線已經轉移，而由于我停留在原地，如今的我身處戰線的另一邊。