We Britons who remain Remainers 28 months after the referendum are used to being called unpatriotic, undemocratic, boring, out-of-touch, elitist bad losers. The home secretary Sajid Javid labels us “deeply unhelpful”. We are urged to get behind the project and are blamed (along with the “EUSSR”, Ireland and supposed master-puppeteer George Soros) for Brexit’s difficulties. When I criticised Brexit in a talk to Conservatives recently, very polite Leavers exhorted me afterwards: “Be positive! If we believe, we can do it.”
我們這些在英國舉行退歐公投的28個月後仍然堅持留歐的英國人，往往被稱爲不愛國、不民主、無聊、不接地氣、輸不起的精英主義者。內政大臣賽義德•賈維德(Sajid Javid)給我們貼上「深度沒有幫助」的標籤。我們被敦促支持退歐，並被指責造成了退歐的困難，與「歐聯」（EUSSR，諷刺歐盟類似於蘇聯——譯者注）、愛爾蘭、以及所謂的木偶操縱大師喬治•索羅斯(George Soros)一同淪爲罪魁禍首。我最近在向保守黨人發表講話時批評了退歐，彬彬有禮的退歐派後來告誡我：「積極點！如果我們堅定信念，我們就能做到。」