主题：【原创】旁观英国 之 法国是英国的春药 -- 风雨声

这不是照抄英国80年代电视剧“是大臣”的台词嘛，就根据时代把土耳其加进去了:

Don't the Foreign Office realise the damage to the European idea?

Well I'm sure they do. That's why they support it.

The Foreign Office is pro-Europe, isn't it?

Yes and no. If you will forgive the expression.The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it's really anti-Europe. The Civil Service was united in its desire to make sure the Common Market didn't work.That's why we went into it.

What are you talking about?

Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that course, we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now, when it has worked so well?

That's ancient history, surely?

Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work.Now that we are inside, we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing. Set the Germans against the French, Set French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like the old times.

But surely we're all committed to the European ideal?

Really, Minister...

No? But why are we pressing for an increase in the membership?

Well, for the same reason. It's just like the United Nations, in fact. The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.

What appalling cynicism.

Yes. We call it diplomacy, Minister.