#5006

my mum has a friend whose husband is a Tory councillor, I just leave the house any time she comes round now and don’t return until their car is gone. Will continue to do this in perpetuity

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#5007

I haven’t seen my uncle for 8 years since he declared himself a UKIP supporter (though there are other more personal reasons as well), but he’s still a Facebook friend and he occasionally posts shite that I try to ignore.

Weird navigating these treacherous waters at times.

#5008

Scotland innit. Come potential referendum time though, that’s when it would all kick off.

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#5009

I just hide them usually but I saw one today about Labour wanting 16 year olds to vote being “hypocrisy” when they claimed Shamima Begum was too young to be responsible (did Labour ever actually say that?) and it just made me feel really ill

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#5010

I just don’t understand how, whatever your position, you could look at the Tories and think they’ve done a great job. Obviously, plenty of people blame the whole thing on Corbyn, but there we go.

#5011

This is the horrible emotional stuff that I sometimes feel we don’t like to unpick for obvious reasons, sorry for picking on you here and thanks for responding to me openly and honestly!

Like obviously we are all human and cannot create unrealistic ideals for ourselves but should we be working on a path to be more or less flexible towards people? I truly don’t know but it feels like a vital question sometimes.

#5012

never thought about it like that before, but corbyn really is responsible for the conservative party in many ways.

#5013

like when I was drunk at the pub and arguing with “tories are too left wing” “england is the best country in the world for human rights” dickhead, at the end of it all after shouting at him and putting him in his place, at the end of the night I still fucking shook his hand and tried to disarm awkwardness. Why did I do this? Consider it a personal character flaw that I will put my desire to be liked above my principles sometimes

#5014

Very envious of most of you :frowning:

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#5015

Yeah I struggle with it a lot, because lots of my closest friends from university have gone on similar journeys where they as they’ve got older and bought houses and shit they’ve definitely started drifting rightward. Not in a scary fash way - they’d all support gay marriage, they have BAME friends, are pro-choice etc - would socially, in culture war terms, be seen as liberal (and most of them were passionate remainers). But when it comes down to the nitty gritty, I suspect I wouldn’t like to hear their real views on benefits, or immigration. And none of them like Corbyn. Part of the reason I love DiS is that it reassures me there are people out there who share my views and I can talk about this stuff.

Should say obvs the incident I mentioned above was properly gross and I shouldn’t have let it slide like I did. I haven’t seen him again since, but then again we don’t see other often anyway.

Will probably see him again at a friend’s Christmas party, where last year I ended up on the balcony drunkenly arguing for full Communism with some awful City lawyer :joy:

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#5017

It’s a leftist coo!

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#5018

The view from this across the water office is that everyone is sick of UK politics and just want them to get on with it (they don’t particularly care what ‘it’ turns out to be).

#5019

sorry again to draw attention to you over this, really horrible behaviour on their part but reflecting on it it doesn’t feel right to chastise people for not wanting further grief and trouble in their lives and letting stuff slide.

I used to have a friend who was pretty weirdly right wing, personally generous and friendly with everybody, happy to lend a hand but also would look for ways out of paying tax and thought Farage was great and speaking for ordinary people. What to make of people like this?

#5020

maybe it’s best not to make friends so they can’t disappoint you and make you compromise on things that matter

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#5021

I’d watch a movie about Corbyn travelling back in time to 1678 and accidentally establishing the Tory party.

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#5022

‘accidentally’

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#5023

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#5024

always happy to see this meme return

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#5025

Reminder that I did a post a few months ago saying the south west is going to go to labour. I’m going to look like a soothsayer.

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#5026

I shall do my best.

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