“Unfortunately, by being deleted, the choice of the people was taken away.”
Ms Bailey said she was too afraid to go anywhere after the swing-gate incident.
“When you’re in a role as a politician you make a lot of judgment calls. and this was obviously a bad one,” she said.
“I was getting direct messages. The social media stuff was just vile. It was so toxic.”
“Some of it I can’t repeat, and they’re words I wouldn’t use. Another of it was just words like ‘fraud’, things I should do to myself. Fairly horrible things.”
“At the time, when you feel that vulnerable - and believe me I felt vulnerable - and ashamed, you’re under a rock and you’re just trying to get out from under that rock.”