Out with hyperbole...the doom and the gloom,

Just wait and see - and give hope some room.

Are we pale shades of all those who bore us

Who lived through the centuries that existed before us?

With a fierce love of home and indomitable pride

And a history of hard times that can't be denied.

They sacrificed much for the sake of democracy

To ensure it prevailed when threatened by autocracy.

Would they have been ruled by this made-up institution

Whose evolution was deceitful, a political pollution?

Conceived in pretence and maintained through illusion

So it's believed by the willing in converted confusion.

I think they would have scoffed and been in no doubt

Of being taken in - and taken themselves OUT!.

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