I HAVE lived in Britain for nearly 40 years and in Bournemouth for 18 years.

I have worked throughout those years, paid my taxes, given blood, supported local charities and generally done my best to be an upstanding citizen.

My children and grandchildren are UK born and bred. However, our passports are French.

We now find ourselves in limbo, feeling like second-class citizens, with rights we had taken for granted suddenly up for discussion and being used as bargaining chips.

Our sense of betrayal is massive and it extends beyond our personal circumstances as EU citizens long settled in this country.

Very few in the UK voted for the opaque, hard Brexit we seem to be headed for, with our supposedly sovereign Parliament, far from ‘taking back control’, now cowed into submission or bypassed by ‘executive prerogatives’.

It is never too late to take a stand against injustice and that’s why the EU flag will be flying from my rooftop on Wednesday.

GENEVIÈVE TALON

Chine Crescent Road, Bournemouth

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