Petulance: the English way, under David Cameron ( Comment )
What would you call a country that called for “a structure under which (Europe) can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom... a kind of United States of Europe” at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Community, 1957)?
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