Jo Swinson


[[File:Jo Swinson.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Support the working class[?] No[,] right-wing policies[!]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191001192330/https://twitter.com/tronaldodumpo/status/1179110865385246720 Twitter.]</ref>]]
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{{cquote|If a [[Liberal Democrats|Liberal Democrat]] majority government is elected, then we should revoke Article 50 and I think it's about being straightforward and honest with the British public about that.|||Jo Swinson, September 2019<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49698800 "Liberal Democrat party to consider scrapping Brexit"], [[BBC]] News, 14 September 2019</ref>}}
{{cquote|[[Boris Johnson]] is determined to have a general election, but the best way to resolve the Brexit chaos is to have a people’s vote and give the British people the final say about their future.|||Jo Swinson, October 2019<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/15/lib-dems-in-renewed-push-for-second-brexit-referendum-vote "Lib Dems in renewed push for second Brexit referendum vote"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 15 October 2019</ref><ref group=note>'Straightforward and honest', huh?</ref>}}
'''Joanne Kate Swinson''' {{lived|1980}}, better known as '''Jo Swinson''', is a [[United Kingdom|British]] politician. She is the former leader of the [[Liberal Democrats]], taking over from Vince Cable in 2019, and resigning five months later, still in 2019. She led the [[Liberal Democrats|Lib Dems]] to campaign hard against [[Brexit]], although it's unclear exactly what they were campaigning ''for'', seemingly taking the strategy of every theoretical position at the same time — whether it was ignoring the [[Brexit|2016 Brexit referendum]] and simply revoking Article 50, whether it was holding a second referendum, or whether it was vocally supporting literally any [[Boris Johnson]] deal so long as he pinky swore to hold a second referendum.<ref>[https://twitter.com/JamesEFoster/status/1184371714454708225 Twitter.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20191016114807/https:/twitter.com/JamesEFoster/status/1184371714454708225 Alt link /w video broken]</ref> But a [[Jeremy Corbyn]] interrim government, the only legitimate way a second referendum could have actually been held,<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/06/only-one-route-out-of-brexit-maze-jeremy-corbyn-must-lead-way "There is only one route out of the Brexit maze and Jeremy Corbyn must lead the way"], Will Hutton, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 6 October 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/04/jeremy-corbyn-mps-labour-leader-legitimacy "For those who want to stop no deal, Jeremy Corbyn is the only hope"], Gary Younge, 4 October 2019</ref>, was out of the question.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qViLF9oNupY "Jo Swinson says Corbyn cannot become temporary PM"], [[YouTube]], 15 August 2019</ref>

As a result of a self-contradictory [[Brexit]] stance, being yet another leader from the Con-Lib coalition, and even Remain voters hating her the more they saw of her,<ref>[https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/11/20/has-familiarity-jo-swinson-bred-contempt "Has familiarity of Jo Swinson bred contempt?"], YouGov, November 20 2019</ref> Swinson, led the [[Liberal Democrats|Lib Dems]] to yet another catastrophic election defeat, not only seeing their seat total fall from 21 MPs to 11, but also losing her own seat to the [[Scottish National Party]] (SNP), forcing her to resign with immediate effect. This has made her the shortest elected [[Liberal Democrats|Lib Dem]] leader in history, only being in power for less than 5 months. Rather than working with the [[Labour Party]] to install [[Jeremy Corbyn|Corbyn]] as a temporary [[Prime Minister]], Swinson chose to back the general election that destroyed both [[Labour Party|Labour]] and her party, giving [[Boris Johnson]] a supermajority of seats, and full power to do whatever kind of Brexit he wanted. In an election where both parties had gone farther to their ideological extremes than ever before in the [[Liberal Democrats|Lib Dems]]'s history, Swinson led the sole centrist party ([[Change UK|that mattered]]) to ''lose'' seats. Some have used polling statistics to say this signifies the death knell for British centrism,<ref>[https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/13/the-center-blows-itself-up-care-and-spite-in-the-brexit-election/ "The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the ‘Brexit Election’"], David Graeber, YouGov/NYT Daily, 13 Janurary 2020</ref>. However she was just that bad a leader, not to mention a hypocrite.

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