这种现象造成某种真空，人们坐视妄想和欺骗抹杀了欧洲合作的一切好处，并促使民众认为英国已经投靠布鲁塞尔为奴。
This created a vacuum, allowing delusion and deception to blot out the benefits of European cooperation, and encouraging the view that the British had become the slaves of Brussels.