and the walls came a tumbling down ...

           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
it was never about patriotism            
it was about power          
about taking control          
about undermining parliamentary democracy          
about putting forward the seemingly wonderful idea    
of a referendum
for anything you like    
and with the probably fair assumption that people      
rather than parliament            
would respond somewhat better  
to a little emotional rhetoric            
no matter what          
the facts          
and yes even the facts          
such as they were          
meant nothing ...