Lead Brexit Claimant Gina Miller Flooded With Racist Death Threats After High Court Ruling

[Grey Lemercier]

"Kill her, she's not even British," read one tweet.

http://europe.newsweek.com/lead-brexit-claimant-gina-miller-flooded-racist-death-threats-after-high-court-516992

The woman who brought Brexit to the High Court has received death threats and racist online abuse after judges ruled that the U.K. government must get parliamentary approval if it wants to leave the European Union.

In June, during the aftermath of the U.K.'s referendum, businesswoman and philanthropist Gina Miller privately hired City law firm Mishcon de Reya in order to challenge the authority of the British government over implementation of Brexit and its power to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, arguing that Parliament had a say in the matter.

Miller’s victory on November 3 means that the process cannot begin until U.K. lawmakers vote, a decision that has added more frustration and delay to a government that has yet to lay out its Brexit plan.

In an article titled "Who do EU think you are?", U.K. newspaper The Sun called Miller a “foreign-born multi-millionaire” and “the woman who may have sabotaged Britain's Brexit deal.” But comments on social media took criticism to a whole new level, with some users calling for Miller to be "shot" or "hung,” The Huffington Post reports. “Kill her, she’s not even British,” one Twitter account-holder posted.

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Gina Miller Article 50 Judgement Fallout Sees Campaigner Receive Death Threats Online

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/article-50-fallout-sees-gina-millar-receive-death-threats-online_uk_581ba19fe4b020461a1bec57

A prominent campaigner who helped bring about the successful legal challenge to the government over Brexit has received death threats online.

Gina Miller, 51, led the action against the government’s plan to commence Article 50 negotiations to leave the EU without parliament’s consent.

But since the decision of the High Court to accept her claim, Miller has received online threats against her life.




A link about Miller shared into the Facebook group ‘UKIP Peoples Forum 2020’ received the comments “Kill her! 2 behind the ear. Throw her in the garbage. Dustbin, whatever...” and “I hope she gets f...king killed”.

Elsewhere, people on Facebook wrote that Miller “should be shot” and “hung”.

SNP MP Stewart McDonald described the threats as “utterly horrendous”.

[cilla4progress]

1. Interesting

Seems like their public discourse is on the same trajectory as ours.

[Panich52]

4. I was thinking the same thing.

The violent undertones, frequently not so subtle, are threatening Western democracies far too often. Just as soon as humans seem to be on the verge of a civilized breakthrough that maintainable, the ugly heads of fascism and misplaced nationalism start roaring.

[Grey Lemercier]

5. the RW tabloids here in London are HORRID

The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star, etc etc

[tammywammy]

2. Also, Gina Miller a DFW sports reporter also received threats.

[Grey Lemercier]

3. so idiots thought the USA Gina Miller was our British Gina Miller???

wtf

[world wide wally]

6. This is Putins coup attempt in progress

It's ironic how he has used nationalism in both the UK and USA as his tool to accomplish it. People will be waving their flags as the two countries fall to the Russians.