UK lawmakers seize control of Brexit process from Theresa May's government - CNN
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It’s nearly three years since I, along with 17. 4 million other Britons, voted for Brexit. Today I have to admit that the Brexit project has gone sour.
Brexit has paralysed the system. It has turned Britain into a laughing stock. And it is certain to make us poorer and to lead to lower incomes and lost jobs.
We Brexiteers would be wise to acknowledge all this. It’s past time we did. We need to acknowledge, too, that that we will never be forgiven if and when Brexit goes wrong. Future generations will look back at what we did and damn us.
So I argue, as a Brexiteer, that we need to take a long deep breath. We need to swallow our pride, and think again. Maybe it means rethinking the Brexit decision altogether.
Certainly it means a delay when we can think about it all in a period of calm. Europe is offering us this opportunity. President Tusk is ready to offer a year’s extension. I say: grab it with both hands.
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"Murielle Stentzel, a French expatriate in Kent, had to return to France after being the victim of xenophobia and racism linked to Brexit. She tells how her daily life has become a hell.
Murielle Stentzel is not afraid to use hard words . Contacted by phone, we feel disappointed, " betrayed ". " It's been 8 years since I lived in England, and from the Brexit referendum it has become catastrophic, " she says.
The story started well though . In love with England - " a tolerant, open country that I loved " - the young woman moved to Kent in 2009 , in Herne Bay, a small coastal town. There she works as a secretary in an accounting firm, which regularly contracts with London. Until the day when the Brexit arrives in the news of the country.
" Overnight, my company lost contracts and I was fired. I sent 30 resumes a week when I had an interview, it discriminated on the fact that I am French. Some ads showed even "British Nationals Only" (" Reserved for the British " nldr) which is completely illegal at the moment! ", indignant Murielle Stentzel.
"Like when Jews had to wear the yellow star"
From day to day, she suffers more and more xenophobic remarks . " One day I was taking the bus, the windows were wide open and it was cold and when I went to see the driver to ask him if I could close the windows he said, " If you're not happy return to frogland "(" If you're not happy, go back to the land of frogs ") I was in shock, " says the French.
Fear settles. " Once I was on the phone with my daughter, someone recognized my French accent and called me " bitch "-" bitch ".no one dared to speak French in the street . "Murielle Stentzel also tells how the government forced associations to send lists of foreign homeless people ." These were deported to transit camps before being sent back to their country. The banks have also asked the Europeans to provide evidence that they had the right to be in England . We really thought we saw the rise of fascism in Germany . "
The comparison, terrible, Murielle Stentzel continues by evoking the" UK settled status", that will have to get all the Europeans residing in England, before 2019." We were asked to provide 5 years of administrative documents , taxes, health insurance ... 5 years is huge. All to have a small plastic card that will show everywhere, all the time , always with you. With that, we will immediately be targeted as "foreign". Like when Jews had to wear the yellow star. "
Forced at the start
It's too much for Murielle Stentzel. Pushed daily to return home , without work or unemployment allowance, she decides to return to France, leaving behind her daughter and granddaughter . " It hurts . " Now she is trying to rebuild her life in La Rochelle, far from the English coast. " It's terrible because on the one hand I still love this country, but on the other I do not trust anymore, it's over, " says Murielle Stentzel.
Like her, other expatriates among the 3 million who live in England suffer like her these xenophobic attacks, fueled according to her by the government's speech. She tells us the story of this French married to an Englishman, living there for more than 30 years . Who was asked to leave because she was sick. Stories as dramatic as each other , partly told in a book , in which Murielle Stentzel participated: "In Limbo", "In limbo". A series of expat testimonials that tell how the Brexit changed their lives overnight .
" It's important that the French people, the Europeans, know how we are treated there, there are separated families, torn apart, I'm not a" drama-queen " : cases like me, there are some full and worst, "concludes Murielle Stentzel. And to add, sadly: " I will not go back ." "
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