Britain was October 31st. And this is the story of why that date kept slipping, how Brexit tied the British Parliament

in knots, how an institution fortified with centuries of precedent and experience descended from statesmanship to soap opera, complete

with wildly implausible plot lines, painful overacting, and a cliffhanger at the end of every

episode. Order.

Order.

We have become an international laughing stock.

Anxious, angry, uncertain, divided death threats to our constituency offices. I shall vote no, no and no.

With my heart and soul I vote for the promise of Brexit that must be fulfilled.

There is no dividend for our country in Brexit.

The Prime Minister has been forced to pull tomorrow's vote in a stunning display of

pathetic cowardice.

What are you doing?

I'm Mark Darcy, the BBC's parliamentary correspondent

and chasing the roller coaster of Brexit, the British exit from the European Union

or the EU, has been my life for more than two years.

So where to begin?

Maybe here, in June 2016, the moment David Dimbleby the grand old man of BBC news

announced the result of the referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

The British people have spoken and the answer is we're out.

At that moment an entire establishment, politicians, civil servants, grandees and commentators flinched

a collective flinch.

This was the result they'd never believed would happen. The first

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