Today, at 23:00 hrs, the UK was due to leave the EU and enter into a 21 month long TA.
That has now been delayed at least by two weeks to April 12, maybe longer to May 22nd if MV3 passes today, or even longer if it does't.
No one knows.
This morning, the papers are full of banner headlines demanding that MPs vote for the WA and stop boring the country with Brexit and respect the referendum.
Respecting the referendum after the illegality that took place during it is now like saying we should still honour Lance Armstrong's Tour de France wins, as he was first over the line. Respect the result.
Well, over spending, sharing data, target fake news stories, and the simple fact that Brexit would be a disaster for the country, for almost every one of us, means that the fight goes on.
And if the UK does leave, then we begin the fight to rejoin.
MPs are part of our representative democracy, they see the bigger picture. We vote for them every 5 years, and they go to Parliament to represent our interests. If they believe are interests are served by something different to the public's opinion, then they should stick to what they think, and what facts and economic forecasts say.
People might be bored of Brexit, but it is not going to stop.
Westminster is doing little else other than Brexit. Justice is falling apart, transport is in chaos, there is a shortage of police, schools cannot afford to be open 5 full days a week in places, there's not enough housing. All ignored and put on the funeral pyre of Brexit.
Trade deals, negotiations, over 70 of them, simultaneously, to be negotiated by Liam Fox. That should scare us.
Should scare the media, but instead they cheer the Brexiteers on.
Today was never going to be independence day, it was going to be a day for mourning. It probably still will happen, the UK will be no more prepared for it than now.
We will all be poorer, less free, healthcare will no longer be free, however. And that wasn't on the side of a bus.
I will have, "told you so" tattooed on my forehead.
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