Gina Miller calls pro-EU organisation she founded 'UNDEMOCRATIC' after secret Remain PLOT
PRO-EU campaigner Gina Miller has furiously slammed the Remain-supporting campaign group she founded for being “undemocratic” after claims were made they were raising money to bring down the Government.
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Her extraordinary remarks came after it was revealed billionaire investor George Soros had handed £400,000 to the Best for Britain campaign group, which is trying to overturn Brexit with a nationwide advertising campaign and Momentum style rallies.
Ms Miller, who stepped down as Director of Best for Britain after the 2017 general election, hit out at the organisation for their secretive fund raising and their attempts to undermine Theresa May.
She said: “It is undemocratic. One of the objectives cannot be to bring down a Government, not without an election or a referendum.
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“This idea of bringing down a Government and guerrilla warfare, I don't agree with any of that. I'm a transparency campaigner, it doesn't matter which side of the argument you are on.
“If you are going to have funders who are getting involved in something that could determine Britain's future then the public has a right to know who is backing it.
“This is about the future of our country.”
A leaked memo from a meeting of Best for Britain says their campaign effort will “wake the country up and assert that Brexit is not a done deal”.
I went on to say the group was planning to use “a range of guerrilla marketing tactics in preparation to build early public impact by seizing attention and indicating a building momentum”.
Speaking to the Telegraph about her thoughts on the memo, Ms Miller added: “When I read the coverage I pulled back and thought this is not where I think this should be going.
“It was a good decision to part ways.”
Mr Soros is one of the world's richest men who is known as the man who “broke the Bank of England” after he profited billions of dollars from betting against sterling on Black Wednesday in 1992.
The 1990s economic event saw the UK lose £3.4billion in a single day after it disastrously joined the European Exchange Rate mechanism.
The affair left Mr Soros with the nickname “the man who broke the Bank of England”.
Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy, who backed the Leave cause, used his newspaper column to claim that Best for Britain wanted to bring down Mrs May's Government.
In the Telegraph he wrote: “The objective is to convince MPs to vote against the deal Theresa May negotiates with Brussels, regardless of its content and despite the risk that doing so could mean Britain leaves the EU with no alternative agreement in place.
“Malloch-Brown (the Chairman of Best for Britain) and his backers believe that, if Parliament rejects the Brexit deal, the Government will fall, and Brexit can then be stopped.”
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However, Lord Malloch-Brown has defended the group’s actions.
He said: “We have never hidden our agenda; we have been campaigning hard to win a meaningful vote on Brexit, which we did, and to keep all options on the table, including staying in the European Union.
“We, like millions of people, believe that Britain should lead, not leave Europe.
“We work with campaigners, businesses, unions, politicians and community groups to make sure everyone has a strong campaigning voice.”