思想曾深刻影响过英国政治体系的埃德蒙·伯克会震惊于脱欧群体对任何民族连贯性的随意无视 — — 并且为他们将这样的决策诉诸公投的迫切意愿而蒙羞。
Edmund Burke, whose thought has profoundly shaped the UK’s political system, would have been appalled at the Brexiteers’ casual disregard for any sense of national continuity – and mortified by their willingness to put such a decision to a referendum.