Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
На каждую инициативу ЕС мы по традиции отвечаем "нет", голосуем против, проигрываем голосование и нехотя принимаем её, виня всех остальных.