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
By forcing Scottish voters to vote on constitutional terms in an election that is supposed to be about forming a UK Government, Sturgeon is once again exceeding her powers as the head of a DEVOLVED administration. 4/9
And how is this proxy referendum going to be enforced? The UK Government and the majority of Scots who voted in the REAL referendum, are not going to agree to the result. 5/9
So what then? VIOLENCE? Sturgeon's shocking ABUSE of power must be stopped, before the divisions she's promoting get out of hand. 6/9
We've seen this time and time again through history. Nationalist leaders ALWAYS think they're entitled to more power than they have. They always want MORE POWER and justify their GREED, as Sturgeon does, as being 'for the good of the nation'. But the UK is a nation of laws. 7/9
The legal framework of the UK, the laws and rules that the people have granted politicians, must put an end to Sturgeon's POWER GRABS. We simply cannot have leaders of DEVOLVED administrations TRAMPLING on the UK Constitution. 8/9
The Supreme Court must strike down her #PretendyRef. The Electoral Commission must stop her PERVERSION of the General Election. And ordinary people must unite to stop her ABUSE of the powers she has been granted. 9/9
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STURGEON'S CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCAM: Sturgeon said that Dorothy Bain, The Lord Advocate, will ask the Supreme Court whether her proposed referendum would be legal. But that's not how the process works. The Supreme Court isn't a place where you go for legal advice. 1/5
The Supreme Court, like any court, doesn't deal in hypotheticals. Martin 'Claim of Right' Keatings asked the Court of Session whether the Scottish Parliament has the power to hold an independence referendum without requiring the consent of the UK Government. 2/5
The judge dismissed Keating's action, saying it was HYPOTHETICAL and PREMATURE. The Scottish Government has to have passed a bill AND the Lord Advocate has to have declared as being within its competence BEFORE it goes to the Supreme Court. But, why is there no Bill? 3/5
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
THE BIG LIST OF NATIONALIST MYTHS...
Scotland subsides the UK - FALSE
It's Scotland's oil - FALSE
Scotland found oil, became poorer - FALSE
Secret oil fields! - FALSE
Scots will be wealthier after indy - FALSE
Scotland has no deficit - FALSE
Scotland cannot borrow - FALSE 1/10
Scotland pays for HS2 - FALSE
Scotland pays for Crossrail - FALSE
Scots Whisky Tax is counted in England - FALSE
GERS is made up by Westminster - FALSE
GERS isn't accurate - FALSE
UK would still pay pensions - FALSE
UK has developed world's worst pensions - FALSE
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England steals Scotland's water - FALSE
Scotland exports more to EU than England - FALSE
Scotland doesn't need to pay UK debt share - FALSE
'The Vow' wasn't delivered - FALSE
SNP didn't say 'once in a generation' - FALSE
A political generation is 7 years - FALSE 3/10
What do Nationalists mean when they say they should get a second referendum because Brexit is a 'material change'? It means NOTHING, because UK constitutional law doesn't include conditions. Nicola Sturgeon made it up. It's self-serving BS. 1/4 gov.scot/publications/s…
There is no law, convention or guidance that has ever said that nationalists could get a second chance due to Brexit or any other circumstance. The Scotland Act is clear: constitutional referendums are reserved to the UK Parliament IN ALL CONDITIONS. 2/4
Not to mention that Brexit was a UK-wide vote, taken after the majority of Scots overwhelmingly voted to remain in the UK. The only way for nationalists to get a second referendum is to get an S30 order, which the UK Government can refuse for ANY reason. 3/4
A thread of extracts from Wings Over Scotland's suicide note... 1/19
'There is no "independence movement" any more, just an independence industry. It provides a very lucrative living for perhaps a couple of hundred people – SNP MPs, MSPs, party staff and apparatchiks...' 2/19
'...special advisers, quango heads and favoured civil servants lavishly rewarded for their personal loyalty to Nicola Sturgeon despite track records of incompetence, bungling and impropriety that have cost taxpayers a vast fortune.' 3/19