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.

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Just listened to her exit speech, she hasn't got a shred of self-awareness.

She's an arrogant, self-opinionated and un-empathetic as well as being oh so confident' I'm going to be the next PM'.

Agree 100%. So full of herself and deluded. I felt embarrassed for her.

All she did was swipe at anyone everyone else who wasn't a Libdem, and champion the 'sisterhood' in her party. PMSL!

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Every single SNP vote is being taken today as an endorsement for yet another bloody referendum

Well to be fair you know what you are getting for if you vote for the SNP, they want independence. So no complaints can be made then.
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Agree 100%. So full of herself and deluded. I felt embarrassed for her.

If I wasn't watching a new telly, I would have thrown something at the screen. Tone deaf and completely in love with her own perceived brilliance.

In which he says she is a victim of sexism.

Um, he is aware the new SNP MP in East Dunbartonshire is a woman?

Victim of her own hubris more like.

Lib Dem’s actually increased the numbers voting for them but due to our shit system they lost out

But the other parties got more too.

A reminder of how Jo got here:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/09/jo-swinson-no-feminist-thrown-women-bus-woke-vote/

Fortunately the Unionist parties still got more votes than the SNP.

Jo Swinson came across like a student in training who was unsupervised and had no advisors.
Jo Swinson was really just a sole operator floundering in her own inexperience. Her attempts to have a flexible outlook just came across as indecisiveness and lacking conviction. They are not one and the same.
If I was her, I'd be also laying the blame at the door of the Lib Dem Campaign Manager...if there even is one!

Just as an example, do you know how many times she voted, with the Tories, in favour of the bedroom tax? Nine.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/04/jo-swinson-lib-dem-apologises-for-backing-coalition-austerity-policies

And I can find plenty of right wing sites saying exactly the same thing.

So no, I don't have any sympathy for her, or the Lib Dems, at all. If they hadn't colluded with the Tories previously as they were so desperate for a whiff of power we wouldn't be in this mess now. The same goes for the DUP.

From a voter's perspective, she's been invisible in the constituency for the last 2 years. First time she was a MP, so 2005 to 2015, she was around a lot. She came to our school summer fair. You'd see her out and about and attending all the sorts of things a MP would be expected to be at.

The only time I can remember seeing her at anything local in the last 2 years was at the 2018 remembrance day parade where she laid a wreath. This lack of visibility has backfired on her spectacularly when confronted with a young, motivated woman who is local and doesn;t kid on she lives in the area when her real home is 300 miles away.

Don't like having a SNP MP. But really Jo, we're not daft.

She's just one of many who lose their jobs at every election, it's not an unusual state of affairs (although she was party leader, so that's a bit different). She doesn't seem to particularly care about women, so I'm not going to waste any of my feelz on her. She's a tone deaf patronising penis-panderer. My only sadness is that she's unlikely to be unemployed for long, but will be snapped up by some woke organisation to champion the poor oppressed wxmenz.

And the baton of wokeness is passed to Sal Brinton for now.

Her performance on GMB, spluttering when asked how many sexes there are. Failing to prioritise actual women and
a massive "yes!" from her that women should share intimate spaces with men too.

Do they get the Genderbread cookie cutter out?

The more exposure she got the more the public realised how useless she is/was. Self identifying by gender is dangerous. She was totally arrogant in claiming she would be future PM in early part of election and her policy on revoke article 50 with no further referendum was bonkers and so undemocratic. I have no sympathy for her, she is delusional.

....and JS also voted in favour of fracking, check out her past voting record.

She was too confident and was always going to fail ... a bit like Corbyn ..

Whoever is feeling sorry for her or even just cringing on her behalf: That's female socialisation for you.

Her interviews were car crashes and her policies were car crashes waiting to happen. In her speech this morning after losing she still doubled down, hoping that the UK could some day become more 'inclusive'...what can she even mean, when her version of inclusiveness requires the exclusion of women??

Nope! This is entirely her own fault. Not just the bad policies on the gender stuff, the being unprepared to answer questions about them and thus making herself look unsuitable to lead a kiddies tea party, never mind a country.

I have written to the LibDems this morning, explaining why their policies on self-ID are making me find it nigh impossible to support them - and that JS deserved to lose her seat, for this alone. I also said that, unless they have a rethink, they are going to have to hope they can manage without the support of biological women.

I am not holding my breath for a positive or reasonable answer.

I am not holding my breath for a positive or reasonable answer

Watch out they don’t have you lifted for hate speech.

She is the face of the authoritarian liberal elite posing as naice.

Ignoring the referendum then pushing the ridiculous idea that biological sex isn't a clear thing any more showed it. She sees ordinary people as thick gammon to be educated away from wrong-think, certainly not for listening to.

Will she go I'm a Celeb 2020 or Strictly 2020?

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

I think people reacted to her misogyny. There, corrected it for you.

She got what she deserved imo.

I don’t think self ID has emerged as being the reason Jo Swinson lost, I don’t know what the LibDems think it was down to. It would be good to let them know that it was a contributory factor- all those adult human females with the vote.

She deserved it and then some! She can use the free time to revise some basic biology.