The vote last night in Parliament was of course a minor point in a much bigger process and anyone who either supported Amendment 7 (as I did) or who opposed it (as the tweets here display) knows that there is a long way to go to achieve either an effective exit from the EU or a possible alternative approach that gives us as a nation as many of the objectives as the Vote – Leave Campaign promised, that are realistic or achievable, but possibly without the full trauma of a hard Brexit. The whole point behind Amendment 7 was simply to formalise a promise of Theresa May and David Davis to give Parliament a full and proper vote on the outcome from the negotiations that Theresa and David are cack-handily trying to carry out. When the Tory Rebels stated they intended bringing this forward and voting for it Theresa apparently reiterated that she would give Parliament a vote. No one believed her and frankly that is why the tweets such as by Julia Hartley Brewer exist. However the headline in today’s Daily Mail states “Just as the newly confident Tories inch ahead in the polls, 11 self-consumed malcontents pull the rug from under our EU negotiators, betray their leader, party and 17.4m Brexit voters and – most damning of all – increase the prospect of a Marxist in No 10”  Of course the 52% of the voters who voted for Brexit back in June 2016 before many of the lies were revealed (on both sides of the ‘debate’) may well now vote differently today, and even then the vote was on a knife edge. It is for this reason that I have written numerous postings suggesting that we hold a second referendum so our position is clear and unambiguous. However to see that knife edge result in the Commons albeit with the miniscule majority in the other direction should be seen as a way of Parliament reflecting the 16.7m voters plus those who did not, or could not vote in calling for the very thing that Vote Leave argued for. Indeed that is why the nonsense from people such as Montgomerie and Hartley-Brewer and the Mail need exposing. The vote last night gave Parliament the very thing that Vote Leave called for – Parliamentary Sovereignty. Anyone who argues otherwise is a traitor both to Brexit and to Democracy and should, if a Politician, step down from their position as a matter of urgency.