Genuinely feeling mortified for Jo Swinson

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Wow that was kick in the balls if ever I have seen one. Jesus how absolutely humiliating. I was curling up just watching the footage last night, and then the clip about her claims that she will be PM.

Just mortifying on every level.

I hope she is able to leave with a shred of dignity, because I am not sure she is ever going to recover her creditability after last night's carnage. She was seriously out of touch, and she paid the ultimate price.

How long is it since a party leader lost their seat at a GE?

Peter Robinson losing to Naomi Long in East Belfast in 2010 I think.

To me, this was the only highlight in a very bad night

The early claims that she could be PM, wouldn't do deals with labour etc. indicated that she was out of touch with reality.
I have a high profile MP - with a v large majority - very irritating that she is rarely seen in the constituency itself, even in the run up to the election, aside from a flurry of twitter pictures of her in the constituency yesterday. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that they were actually taken yesterday.
That she is a poor constituency MP resulted in my not voting for her; today she has a reduced but still huge margin. - for someone with a narrow margin, such as jo swinson, ignoring your own constituency is total madness.

out of interest how many spoilt votes where there in ED

Swinson is a Savignon Blanc swirling, woke, virtue signaller and the British people want action, not patronising.

Even after England turned blue on the map, she still didn't get that people have decided what they want and it is not the LibDumbs.

According to the council website, 80 spoiled papers.

No sympathy for her here,the speech she gave when she lost was cringeworthy,she went on and on and on and................Weird woman.

No sympathy whatsoever, she was happy to throw all women under the bus to prove her ‘wokeness’
I hope she’s reading Mumsnet and weeping. She will have plenty of time on her hands

Thanks pineapple

She was always massively out of her depth and under-prepared for the job and it showed. To hear / watch her being interviewed was cringeworthy and uncomfortable. She started every answer to every question with 'Look, I mean...'

Woefully inadequate style, completely lacking in gravitas.

And that's before we even get started on her willingness to throw democracy and women under a bus. Which is ironic really, considering being a woman is in her biology and being a democrat is in her job title.

Or should I say was in her job title.

I thought her speech was very ungracious and tone deaf. Smearing people as being 'nationalists' because they didn't vote for her or her party showed zero self-awareness

Zero pity here.

Why not give the woman a break and focus on the fact we now have a PM who won’t even admit to how many children he’s fathered? Or Is that ok because he’s a man? The hypocrisy on here is ridiculous sometimes.

@cosima1

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3755259-AIBU-to-tell-you-that-Boris-Johnson-hates-women-with-evidence

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3760318-Children-of-working-mothers-are-more-likely-to-mug-you

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3755155-Pot-Kettle-Misogyny-Hypocrisy-Boris-Johnson-of-course

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3755659-to-be-furious-at-my-children-being-described-like-this

Plus many, many, many threads that will have discussed everybody's feckless father within general scathing threads about him.

I wanted to vote for someone other than Tory or Labour, but a vote for LibDems was a vote against women's rights, so I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Women have a voice and we WILL use it!

She was seriously out of touch, and she paid the ultimate price.

She lost her seat, not her life!!!

I'm in Scotland and agree with previous Scottish posters - she didn't lose her seat because of anything to do with her gender beliefs, it's mainly down to the SNP popularity, with a large dash of her being generally crap.

No sympathy for her.

She lost her seat, not her life!!!

There were some concerns on that front when she went AWOL for over an hour on her way to the results. 😉

I feel sorry for her, at the start of the election campaign there was a 4 way split in popularity between Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Brexit party, so it wasn't really that out there for her to aim at being the next PM.

Now she has lost her seat by less than 200 votes even though the Lib dem vote share has increased nationally.

I didn't agree with all the lib dem policies but that goes for all the parties.

I think there was a degree of misogyny in people's reactions to her

She lost her seat because the working class didn’t like being patronised. She assumed everyone thought like her and it backfired.

She also has an awful manner - as does Corbyn.

I felt mortified on her behalf many many times during the campaign. Last night was not one of them.

Oh, please! She's a lying git whose voting policies show she's the one willing to throw women under a bus (AND the disabled, the poor and working poor, the sick). Boohoo. She was willing to grab any banner going to increase her power. Her voting record was appalling.

I feel sorry for her, at the start of the election campaign there was a 4 way split in popularity between Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Brexit party, so it wasn't really that out there for her to aim at being the next PM.

Then she should have remembered the Clegg effect of 2010.

I must admit I stayed up for 2 reasons last night after the result became clear - to watch:

• Swinson get booted out
• my constituency change from Tory to SNP.

The two glorious spots in a night of hell.

In every single interview or speech, she came across like a gauche teenager participating in youth parliament or a secondary school debate. Embarrassing.