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，我是反欧洲者。现在，我是亲欧洲者。但奇怪的是，我的观点并未改变。我一直主张英国应当置身于欧元区以外，但留在欧盟(EU)。在英国前首相约翰•梅杰(John Major)和托尼•布莱尔(Tony Blair)当政的年代，欧元是主导一切的议题，因此我的立场让我成为欧洲怀疑论者。但如今的争论已变成：英国应否彻底脱离欧盟？英国在欧洲问题上的“内战”前线已经转移，而由于我停留在原地，如今的我身处战线的另一边。