Thread by @robinthemint

How disgusting it is that Tory MP,s are cutting & pasting an utterly false equation of Parliamentary sovereignty in the Miller Supreme Court case with UK’s obligation to obey the law especially as many disagreed with the SC at the time. Here @thatginamiller puts them straight.👇

2/ Which is exactly what I have been hammering on about for days now. The @neill_bob backstop amendment has nothing to do with parliamentary sovereignty - it is all to do with providing political cover for existing illegality. It is too late by then because if the IMB is passed-

3/ by that time the IMB is already existing evidence itself of the UK’s illegal behaviour because it breaches a negotiated treaty obligations recognised in international law under articles 4:2 & 5. The Rubicon to illegality will have already been crossed by our pound shop Caesar.

4/ and to mix the classical or Shakespearean Roman analogies all Parliamentarians will be doing in the amendment will be dipping their blades in the existing illegality of the extant Bill albeit they may have option to approve or disprove but not cure its very unlawful existence.

5/ So @thatginamiller is right. This has little if anything to do with the suddenly popular with Tories Miller case on supremacy of Parliament. The IMB never threatened that at all nor is Supreme case needed to bolster the case for the amendment. The original sin is illegality.

6/ The whole country is being subject to an attempt to ‘gas light’ us all into thinking the amendment cures the illegality of the IMB. It doesn’t because that illegally comes into force forthwith on the passing of the bill & a delayed amendment thereafter doesn’t alter that fact

7/ There are a few Tory politicians that understand that but far to few to defeat this illegality in the Commons as they have chosen to dip their blades in the blood of the twitching corpse of UK’s reputation for compliance with law having been bought off by this bogus supremacy

8/ argument which was never relevant in the first place to the issue of lawfulness. So bizarrely it will be up to the unelected House of Lords to try to salvage UK’s tarnished reputation for legality & integrity. I hope they will ignore equally bogus threats about the Salisbury

9/ Convention as betrayal of our international legal obligations was never part of the Tory manifesto so the convention does not apply. Apart from that what would the Lords be for if they did not act as a check on the Commons in the extraordinary circumstance of law breaking?

10/ finally I apologise for the length of this but these are complex matters beyond my poor capability to summarise is a simple paragraph. If you got to then end I admire your stamina and fortitude and thank you