Tory councillor wants to make supporting the UK rejoining the EU after Brexit ‘treason’ A Conservative councillor has launched a petition to make backing the UK’s membership of the EU after Brexit an act of […]

A Conservative councillor has launched a petition to make backing the UK’s membership of the EU after Brexit an act of treason.

Christian Holliday, a member of Guildford Conservative Association and a coordinator for Vote Leave according to his Twitter profile, has so far garnered signatures from more than 140 people who are also in favour of amending the Treason Felony Act to include any support of the UK as a member of the bloc after the formal divorce planned for Spring 2019.

The amendment would also include conspiring with foreign powers to make the UK part of the EU again.

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The petition reads: “The Treason Felony Act be amended to include the following offences: “To imagine, devise, promote, work or encourage others, to support [the] UK becoming a member of the European Union “To conspire with foreign powers to make the UK, or part of the UK, become a member of the EU.”

Mr Holliday, the Tory councillor for the ward of Burpham, has until 14 April 2017 to garner 10,000 signatures in order to get a response from the government. If he acquires 100,000 names, the petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.

‘Democratic decision’

Mr Holliday said it was “becoming clear” than politicians were “unwilling to accept the democratic decision of the British people to leave the EU”.

“Brexit must not be put at risk in the years and decades ahead,” he wrote. Guildford voted 43.8 per cent in favour of Leave during the EU referendum on 23 June. Britain as a whole voted 51.9 per cent in favour of divorcing from the bloc.

Under the Treason Felony Act 1848, it is a crime to “compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our most Gracious Lady the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors, from the Style, Honour, or Royal Name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom”. Crimes under the act are punishable by up to life imprisonment.

i has contacted Mr Holliday for a comment.