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Originally Posted by martyh
What she did ,and lets not forget the brexit voter that accompanied her, is make sure the government didn't overstep their authority.The court case was the public's assurance that Parliament and thus democracy is followed at all times .If you truly believe that she achieved nothing then you are another brexiter that didn't know what they voted for .The reality is that the UK government caused the obfuscation by trying to bypass Parliament ,if they had sat down and thought about it for 5 mins they would have realised that she perfectly correct in what she said but they decided to pursue matters through appeal and in doing so wasted taxpayers money.
All she did was return Democracy to the people which is exactly what you and I voted for.
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I think you're being rather charitable to Ms Miller if you don't mind my saying so.
Her high-minded appeal to democracy was nothing of the sort. As with so many of the entitled, they love democracy to the extent that they believe it serves them. The referendum was tolerable only so long as she and her set believed the outcome would be that we would remain in the EU. Once the result was Leave, and everyone started thinking seriously for the first time about what that might actually mean, it was perfectly understandable that remainers with the resources to do so would begin to seek ways to restrain Brexit from going to its logical conclusion (you know, the one many of us were absolutely up front about all along, though we have repeatedly been accused of not understanding, namely that leaving the EU means actually leaving the EU and not trying to keep one foot inside the very institutions that make it intolerable).
In those very early days post-vote, putting Parliament front and centre was an attractive option because firstly, the court process promised a way of holding the whole thing up and secondly parliament did, and still does, have a natural remain majority of about 75-25. It has only begun to become clear in the last couple of months, long after the court action was initiated, that most MPs, certainly enough of them at any rate, value their seats enough to listen to their constituents on this issue rather than pleasing themselves.
I don't believe for one moment that Gina Miller spent even a second contemplating the outcome of the English Civil War and the way the relationship between Crown and parliament has subsequently developed.