The @ScotTories, @Conservatives, and their dog-whistling pals in the right wing press have spent 5 long and painful years telling us that this is what democracy is. Irrefutable that there is a stronger mandate for #IndyRef2 than Theresa May had to pursue the withdrawal agreement https://twitter.com/ScottishSun/status/1391505124716163074

After the 2015 general election, were the Sun, Telegraph, Daily Mail and Express telling people the Tories should focus on recovery from the global financial crash rather than a "divisive" EU referendum? No chance. Democracy only matters when their side wins. This time they lost.

Let's compare apples and apples

-Johnson's hard Brexit mandate was won with
43.6% FPTP vote share
56.2% of FPTP seats
46.5% of all FPTP votes against #PeoplesVote

- Sturgeon's mandate was won with
47.7% FPTP vote share
85% of FPTP seats
49% of all FPTP votes for #IndyRef2

And that's intentionally using FPTP votes, specifically because we're comparing like for like. Because on the list, #IndyRef2 parties actually won more than 50% of the vote share.

Based on @ScotTories & @Conservatives OWN precedents, there is a stonewall mandate for #IndyRef2

Just to bookend this thread, of course this is still the overwhelming reason why there is a mandate for a second independence referendum https://twitter.com/kennywastell/status/1391295031030464513?s=20