EU Referendum. Brexit, the English -and their Welsh neighbours - have spoken!

THE SECRET PEOPLE.

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget;
For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
There is many a fat farmer that drinks less cheerfully,
There is many a free French peasant who is richer and sadder than we.
There are no folk in the whole world so helpless or so wise.
There is hunger in our bellies, there is laughter in our eyes;
You laugh at us and love us, both mugs and eyes are wet:
Only you do not know us.  For we have not spoken yet.

We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet,
Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street.
It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first,
Our wrath come after Russia's wrath and our wrath be the worst.
It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our rest
God's scorn for all men governing.  It may be beer is best.
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us.  But do not quite forget.

G K Chesterton

Well, the English spoke on June 23rd - with a vengeance!