Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Gina Miller

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Guyanese activist Gina Miller.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Gina Miller

Gina Nadira Miller is a Guyanese-British business owner and activist who initiated the 2016 R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union court case against the British government over its authority to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament. In September 2019 she successfully challenged the government's prorogation of Parliament, formally supported in the legal case by the former prime minister Sir John Major and the shadow attorney general, Shami Chakrabarti. She founded the True and Fair Campaign in 2012, calling for an end to financial misconduct in the investment and pension industries.

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.
The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.
Vagueness and good law are simply incompatible. — © Gina Miller
Vagueness and good law are simply incompatible.
If Canadian companies want to sell products to the E.U., they have to prove those products conform with E.U. product safety, health and environmental rules. This involves extra bureaucracy, controls and paperwork. If the U.K. had a Canada-style deal with the E.U., U.K. companies would have to do the same.
I fought for MPs to have the right to vote on article 50 not because I was against Brexit, but because I was, and remain passionately, an advocate of parliamentary sovereignty.
Our democracy only works when the official opposition does its job of opposing the government of the day and offers a clear alternative vision for our country, including giving a voice to the voiceless.
Mr Corbyn, I accuse you of failing to do your duty by not opposing in any real sense our government on the most important issue of our times - Brexit.
Article 50 is very poorly written and raises more questions more answers.
In more stable political times, a low turnout in the E.U. elections was a luxury we could afford.
All I want is for Remain United to lift the fog so that people who oppose Farage - and his chilling authoritarian vision for our country - can deploy their votes strategically and effectively.
I'm a marketeer, and I thought the message discipline in the Leave campaign was extraordinary.
I've worked for everything I've had, and I can't think of a better way of using it than standing up for what's right, and what's required to build a better society.
It is obvious to voters that Brexit has caused both of our principal parties to take leave of their traditional and historic purposes and principles, if not also their senses.
It was a privilege to play a leading role in helping to safeguard our parliamentary sovereignty, and as such I am, on any view, a person with a genuine and substantial interest in the matter of defending MPs' voices.
I am a private citizen with no political affiliation - the recommendations Remain United will make are based on robust polling and scientific methodology never before used in an E.U. election.
It is one of the most beautiful things about our country that just one individual, so long as he or she has the law on their side, can take on the most powerful institutions or people in the land and win.
Ever since David Cameron took it on himself to prise open Pandora's box and call the E.U. referendum, the only thing that's been predictable has been the utter unpredictability of what has followed.
All our elected representatives - and our government - have a responsibility to keep their people safe and well. — © Gina Miller
All our elected representatives - and our government - have a responsibility to keep their people safe and well.
So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.
I've managed to achieve a lot because I sleep very little. I tend to survive on about four hours a night, but when I'm stressed it's even less.
Brexit will lead to a flight of talent, money and taxes - and the country will have to take on more and more debt.
The decisions MPs make as our representatives affect every aspect of our daily lives, from energy bills to the quality of our hospitals, schools and emergency services.
British electoral law forbids different campaign organisations acting in concert unless they have a shared cap on spending.
From teaching, the NHS and social care, to cleaning and building, the U.K. economy depends heavily on E.U. workers. Under a Canada-style deal for the U.K./E.U., the ability for E.U. workers to live and work freely in the U.K. would stop.
Democracy abhors a vacuum.
I am no shrinking violet.
An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.
The problem with article 50 of the Lisbon treaty is that it is not substantive in its content or conditions, and only concerns itself with procedural requirements.
I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.
As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard's 'Women & Power: A Manifesto' brought me a sense of solidarity, power and determination.
A Brexit Britain that will navigate its way in the world without a moral compass.
I don't think one moment that we should sink to the levels of the Brexiters - the dodgy money, the electoral lawbreaking and the lying - but I do wonder if those of us who remain deeply concerned about the consequences of Brexit are really landing all the blows that we can.
Once the country voted for Brexit, I wanted the prime minister to make a success of it, but I knew that unpicking 45 years of entwinement with the E.U. would be impossible without our elected lawmakers being fully involved.
If the U.K. wants to leave the E.U., we need to stay in the single market.
Leaving the E.U. is only the first phase of the Brexiter agenda to shake us free of the laws, rules and rights that many see as a constraint on the implementation of their frighteningly rightwing vision of Darwinian capitalism.
As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.
I didn't realise how much of a personal vendetta Dominic Cummings had against the establishment.
If the court case I brought against the government over article 50 was about anything at all, it was about parliamentary sovereignty. — © Gina Miller
If the court case I brought against the government over article 50 was about anything at all, it was about parliamentary sovereignty.
The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has become.
It is a tenet of representative democracy that MPs are not delegates for their constituents. This means that their decisions and actions are ultimately governed by putting the best interests of all their constituency before all else.
What a travesty it is that the high priests of Leave in 2016, who insisted to all of us that Brexit would mean a return to parliamentary sovereignty, are undermining and circumventing parliamentary sovereignty in order to deliver their hard Brexit.
The things being smuggled in under the cover of Brexit will damage so much of what we hold dear. A cabal of tycoons would see their wealth and influence turbocharged, while the mass of the population would see their prosperity, their security and, ultimately, their liberty dwindle away.
Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.
My day job, running a fund management company, means I know that I and my team can't afford not to read every word of every document about assets or markets we propose to invest in, and to be absolutely clear we are complying with all the legal and regulatory requirements involved.
No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.
My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.
Under Ceta the E.U. checks products coming from Canada to ensure they do not originate in any other country - because if they did, they would be subject to E.U. tariffs. The same would happen if the U.K. had a Canada-style deal with the E.U.
I never doubted that our parliamentarians would vote to trigger article 50 but I expected a detailed, pragmatic debate around the options of how to execute Brexit and the processes involved.
I do not doubt that there are many countries that will wish to trade with the U.K. post-Brexit, but understandably they will wait to see what the U.K.'s ultimate relationship with Europe will be.
Yes, I believe in parliamentary sovereignty, but irrespective of what the Electoral Commission decides, I am now even more convinced that there must be a people's vote on the Brexit deal, including an option to remain, or remain voters will have good reason to shout foul play.
At 14 I had no choice but to live with my brother, on our own, without adults, with all the responsibilities, decisions and day-to-day practicalities of living independently. I had, though, the joy of earning my own money.
I welcome the Independent Group as it is committed to saving the country from a catastrophic hard Brexit.
The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold. — © Gina Miller
The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.
The British are a people who are generally happy, under normal circumstances, to trust politicians to tell us the truth and to leave them to run the country as we get on with our lives. But we reserve the right, always, to make it clear that they are our servants, not our masters, and, when necessary, we can and will take charge.
Poll after poll has shown that a no-deal Brexit is emphatically not what the public wants - whatever the Leave campaign-staffed No 10 press office may tell lobby correspondents.
I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.
I'm an adrenaline junkie but also a petrol head.
It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law - even the prime minister - and no one, not even him, is above it.
As transparency campaigner for more than 10 years, I have long had a sense that something was not quite right about the E.U. referendum. I warned back in November 2017 that the leave campaign seemed to be awash with dark money that may have circumvented rules designed to uphold the integrity of our democratic process.
The E.U. elections provide an opportunity for the people of the United Kingdom to knock some sense into the heads of their political leaders.
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