Tory Brexiteer MP John Redwood has thrown a nice little rock into the Remainer ant-Brexit pond.
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John Redwood has published a couple of Tweets that seem to have triggered a few of the more Remain minded people out there.
What he put out about this surrender bill that's gone through parliament was:
"The law Parliament is seeking to pass is an unusual law seeking to control the conduct of the Prime Minister in an international negotiation. It is not a criminal law creating a new crime. There are no proposed penalties, fines or prison sentences in it should the PM not obey it."
And then he replied to his own Tweet saying:
"It is not a general law applying equally to all of us, nor even a law always applying to government. It is a Parliamentary instruction or political opinion on one issue at one time passed as a law."
And he's right in that this surrender bill makes absolutely no mention of any sanction at all, should the Prime Minister fail to follow its instructions.
There has been talk that, if Boris does ignore the law then he should be subject to impeachment or even a Bill of Attainder.
Now impeachment means he has to go to the House and explain himself, which is something I think he'd do anyway.
But an ancient Bill of Attainder is where a person can be punished by the Commons without trial. You know, a sort of breach of human rights thing.
But the route would more likely be that Boris would have to end up in the Supreme Court where Remainers hope he would be told by court order to ob..
