Polly on the black ships of the British

Polly Toynbee, in the Guardian, warns us of the withdrawal of the British from the lands of Europe:

The symbolic power of that would have an unpredictable trajectory of its own, unleashing forces that are hard to bottle up again. It might finish off any hope of ever winning a referendum on the European constitution: as the rest of the EU moves on this would mark the start of Britain's road to the margins and withdrawal.

The elves are leaving, they’re sailing away
All beauty is slowly crossing the sea
What did we fight for? What did we gain?
We can’t ever win. We’ll never be free.