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Nicola Sturgeon is not only exceeding the powers given to her by Scots in The Scotland Act, she's now trying to SUBVERT the democratic process by FORCING Scots to treat the next General Election as a referendum. She's ANTI-DEMOCRATIC to the core. 1/9 #BoycottThePretendyRef
Regarding a 'plebiscite' or proxy referendum: Do we really want the situation where pro-UK Scottish voters feel they might have to boycott the General Election? 2/9
WE SAID NO IN THE REAL REFERENDUM. WE MEANT IT. Stop trying to SUBVERT DEMOCRACY, by making every election into a referendum. 3/9
Using an election as a referendum, a so-called 'plebicite election' is completely unenforceable. The SNP already has 44 of 59 Scottish MPs in Westminster and can do nothing. A Unilateral Declaration of Independence is a non-starter, after a free and fair referendum. 1/4
It's also a perversion of democracy. Elections are NOT referendums. The purpose of the General Election is to determine who forms the UK government, not to act as a proxy referendum for breaking up the UK. 2/4
It's also deeply cynical: many people will boycott a #PretendyRef, but few will want to boycott a General Election. Are our votes then to be used as a proxy referendum, just because Sturgeon says so? @ElectoralCommUK needs to close this down. 3/4
