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Hello, I'm Matthew Price and this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

Today can anyone explain the chaos?

Living through history is strangely tiring,

living through history is strangely tiring especially for people who actually want to

follow every twist and turn of what's going on.

The really sad thing and I sort of hesitate to admit this is I do actually dream about Brexit.

I do actually wake up thinking about Brexit thinking,

well if that vote goes that way and they do that, then this, which is alarming, isn't it?

It is alarming, he's right.

That's Nick Robinson.

He's the big beast, if like of British political media and if you're someone like him

then you are supercharged at the moment you're really excited about all of this you're analyzing every single twist and turn of what's going on.

And what's going on in March 2019 is massive. It's seismic. In 20 years time there'll be history books,

there'll be political books written about this, and with the benefit of hindsight,

they will look back and tell us what happened.

But right now, it's all as clear as mud, and if you're someone like me who Philly takes the

piss out of for wanting everything in order you do don't you? I like to know

where I'm going that's all I'd like to know what's happening not just in my life but generally and I'm looking around at the moment I'm thinking I have not a clue where this is going that is quite anxiety producing so what we wanted to do today what we wanted to do today, what I wanted to do today was have a guide

as to what's going on. So Nick's going to do some of the heavy lifting on that and talk us through

where he thinks this is all heading in terms of the big

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