I feel dismayed after the EU referendum, the most divisive vote in my lifetime, which risks a move towards a more unequal, divided and racially intolerant society, a broken UK and a breakdown of relationships across Europe. When I arrived at work on Friday morning, a female colleague was in tears simply because she is Irish. Other colleagues sat in stunned silence that their environmental regulation work (at the Environment Agency) of the last 40 years could be undone. When I got home, my daughter, who has hopes of going to university in the Netherlands, asked why her future had been taken from her. Have we learned nothing from Europe’s history? Is there anything we can do to take a better path forward from here?
Dr Mark Whiteman
York
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