Baroness Grey-Thompson DBE writes for Ability Needs
WHATEVER your feelings on Brexit, there is one thing I know and that it is going to take over the next year of my life. I voted Remain for a complex set of reasons. I don’t think the arguments for either side were terribly good, and the rather stark question of being in or out was, to say the least, a blunt tool. It didn’t allow people who give a view on the single market, or customs union or a whole host of other things. I always thought it was going to cost a lot to leave, and the negotiation was going to be long and difficult when there were plenty of other things that I thought we should be dealing with, like austerity. There will be huge unforeseen consequences of withdrawing from the EU and there are loads of areas that have not even vaguely come up for discussion yet.
This story is from the Winter 2017/18 edition of Ability Needs.
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