It took the biscuit, but there was great toast

I've covered elections in France, Thailand, the former South Vietnam, Laos and my native United Kingdom, but reporting on the referendum here, which saw Britons record an unprecedented vote to quit the European Union, hit home for some reason.

I suppose the older I get, the more knowledge I acquire, and in the case of my own country, the more emotionally involved I become.

This one, as we say in English (at least in my part of London) took the biscuit.