'You should ALL be my biggest fans' Gina Miller BLASTS Brexiteer attacks after court case
THE CAMPAIGNER who won the case for Parliament to vote on Article 50 has spoken of “dark clouds gathering” after being subjected to of a torrent of racist abuse.
Gina Miller: Everyone in the UK should be my biggest fan
Investment manager Gina Miller said she was not surprised by the reaction to the High Court ruling on Thursday before branding the government a “tinpot dictatorship”.
Speaking to Andrew Marr on BBC One this morning, she said: “It’s brought out a side of society, [where] the dark clouds are definitely gathering and it’s every ‘ism’ you can think of – sexism, racism, homophobia, everything is there.
“But I was aware that there would be nastiness because anything to do with the word Brexit, people lose their minds and it’s all about heart.
I was aware that there would be nastiness, because anything to do with the word Brexit, people lose their minds and it’s all about heart
“Actually, it’s about your head and your heart and as I said earlier the elephant in the room was that the government were going to use something that would give them basically dictatorial powers.”
The comments come after she accused Prime Minister Theresa May of attempting to “sidestep” Parliamentary democracy.
She said: “The case is that she cannot use the royal prerogative to do it [trigger Article 50], because we do not live in a tinpot dictatorship, we live in a country that has a sovereign Parliament."
Gina Miller: We don't live in a 'tinpot dictatorship'
“You can’t win back Parliament sovereignty, as everyone was talking about, at the very moment that you sidestep it.
“We have the rule of law and it’s British judges in a British court who have made decision about how we leave and so now get on a leave, why is she so afraid of having this debate?”
Ms Miller went on to add that the British public should be her “biggest fans” after creating “legal certainty” and dismissed the idea the referendum was not advisory.
She said: “In the black letter of the law, it was advisory, but again not relevant in this.
“This is about creating a legal certainty, and actually, everyone in the country should be my biggest fan because I’ve used my own money – a few of us – used our money to create the legal certainty for Mrs May to move ahead.”