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A Southport pensioner has offered a unique reason to back Brexit - she reckons the EU left her stranded on her broken-down stairfift.

The woman, who asked no to be named, said EU regulations were to blame for leaving her helpless when the lift at her home broke.

She told Visiter.co.uk : “I’m in favour of Brexit because European regulations let me down.

“I use an electric chairlift to get up and down the stairs. I was carrying something heavy on my arm as I was coming down the stairs and my chairlift suddenly stopped on me.

“According to the manufacturer, EU regulations meant an unnecessary on-off switch was put on the chair. The parcel I was carrying knocked this switch on and I was left stranded halfway up the stairs.

“The EU is nonsense. We need to leave otherwise we’ll be bankrupted.”

The woman, who has lived in the town all her life, has also issued a request for people to stop referring to Brexit as a “divorce”.

She added: “We are not legally married to the EU. This is a separation.”

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