The Remoaner cranks are finally giving up

The last time I saw Gina Miller was outside the Supreme Court in 2019, after Baroness Hale, of spider-brooch fame, ruled Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament to be “unlawful”.

Surrounded by fellow Remainers, Miller, who had taken the case to the highest court in the land, emerged victorious to the cheers of EU-flag wavers.

“Today is not a win for any individual or court,” she said, reading a prepared statement in her trademark Euro-blue blazer. “It’s a win for parliamentary sovereignty.”

It was an interesting hot take from the woman who spearheaded two legal attempts to reverse a “once in a lifetime” democratic vote to leave the EU in 2016, supported by 17.5 million people.

It came after she had led the People’s March for a(nother) People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal, alongside Vince Cable, Caroline Lucas and Anna Soubry (remember them?).

By her own admission, Miller was the poster girl for Remain – a cause that she recently revealed may have been a contributing factor to her developing cancer.

The 59-year-old said she was even abused while hooked up to a chemotherapy drip at a London hospital, when a fellow patient shouted: ‘You’re that Brexit woman. I f---ing hate you’.

Yet it was a cross she was willing to bear.

Even after Johnson claimed to have “got Brexit done”, Miller continued campaigning through her True and Fair party, standing as the candidate for Epsom and Ewell at the last general election.

She was not elected, coming sixth out of the seven candidates and losing her deposit with a 1.5 per cent share of the vote.

Now it appears that the British-Guiana-born lawyer turned campaigner has finally had enough of politics altogether, after it emerged that True and Fair was dissolved via voluntary strike-off last week. It means the party will not make an appearance at next month’s local elections.

Could this finally signal the end of Project Fear? Let’s jolly well hope so. While we still have some Brussels backers trying to make out that Brexit had nothing to do with Sir Keir Starmer being offered a favourable 10 per cent tariff by Donald Trump, compared to the 20 per cent slapped on the “protectionist” EU, the time has surely now come to celebrate the end of Euromania once and for all.

I remember witnessing peak Remain in the back of a taxi with Labour MP Barry Gardiner as we returned from a Question Time appearance in Dewsbury in 2018.

Gardiner, then shadow trade secretary, tried to argue that if Brexit went ahead “there wouldn’t be a sheep left in the fields of England”.

From memory, his argument centred on the idea that a free trade deal with America would wipe out our entire livestock. A most unlikely claim when it comes to sheep, as Wales alone harbours around 70 per cent more sheep than the entire United States.

Such was the level of scaremongering during that fretful period that even this didn’t seem especially bonkers alongside claims that leaving the bloc would “spark a year-long recession” (George Osborne), cause World War Three (David Cameron), result in Scotland winning a second independence referendum (Cameron again) and decimate Britain’s influence on the world stage (Emmanuel Macron).

Far from being “at the back of the queue”, as Barack Obama once threatened, the Prime Minister is now in pole position for a US trade deal that even he and his fellow Eurolovers once claimed would result in Brits being force fed hormone-injected beef and chlorinated chicken. These were the very ideologues who once balked at the idea of turning the UK into Singapore on Thames – now they’re hankering after its functioning low-tax state and seven per cent growth rate – as Leavers suggested they should nearly a decade ago.

We’re in this mess precisely because we haven’t maximised our post-Brexit freedoms – and instead stuck with the big state, high tax, virtue-signalling globalism that has turned Europe into such a basket case that it cannot even adequately defend Ukraine from a Russian invasion.

The Remainers claimed Brexit would break Britain. But in reality it’s fallen foul of their own smug status quo-ism and the kind of anti-democratic lawfare waged by Miller and her Remainer ilk.