No rights... and no voice

Published Friday 24 February 2017 - 14:37 Modified Friday 24 February 2017 - 14:37

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Nobody mentions that Brits who are long-term residents in France were granted the right to do so by an earlier referendum. We planned our lives accordingly. It is hard to have those rights removed in our old age, particularly when we were allowed no voice in the latest farce.

Christopher Sears, Dordogne

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