Thread by @lunaperla

The stock statement in response to #Brexit petitions needs to be called out. "There must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, & no 2nd Ref" is fundamentally UNCONSTITUTIONAL as it binds Parliament and the People too.

/1.

Parliamentary sovereignty means one Parlt cannot bind another. This invalidates the "cannot reverse #Brexit" subtext of the above statement, as we've had a general election since #Article50 was triggered, so technically this is a different Parlt not bound by the previous one. /2.

The idea the People cannot speak again is ludicrous. It'd take a MAJORITY to #ExitFromBrexit. How is that undemocratic?Given the false prospectus on which #Brexit was sold, the chicanery & cheating of #VoteLeave & Brexit impact, it's the DUTY of Govt to give us #FinalSay Ref. /3.

I wrote to the Head of the Petitions Committee about this, but she replied it was the relevant Govt Dept who wrote the responses (DExEU?). I've also written to Baroness Taylor, chair of the Lords Constitution Committee, but have so far received no reply.

/4.

These details matter. It feels as if every jot of our Constitution is under assault by this #Tory Govt - part of the massive scope-creep of their malign #Brexit project. Ironically we are only now losing the parliamentary sovereignty #Leave pretended it cared so much about.

/5.

Sadly those who voted #Leave seem either not to have the constitutional background, or else not to care, or else to be taken in by the *they're trying to thwart #Brexit* mantra the #BrexitTaliban shrieks every time somebody points out they're trampling our Constitution.

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