He honestly often sounds like a cross between Alf Garnett and Victor Meldrew .
The clangers last night were:
the "Europeans" are clogging up the NHS sitting there waiting for treatment when they aren't ill
and
he is glad that our daughter is not at an orthodoncy practice in a particular area of London (I chose the other one offered to us as it is more convenient to get to) as he does not want [insert people of a particular faith] to be fiddling with her mouth
Other favourites are
- he had to work several jobs to get a house so people should do it now if they want to get on the housing ladder
- the people running the anti knock our library down (to build expensive flats - a new library has been built but the land does not belong to the council, we lost a bookshop and a car park as well as a little public square) campaigns are "fish wives" who spout things that are not true
- it is not true that places like Germany have more asylum seekers than the UK because they come here for the benefits
and so on .
I counter and argue with every single one of his clangers and tell him he is prejuiced etc.. (incidentally he himself is part of an immigrant family and he came to England as a child).
I sometimes get a bit worried he might be developing dementia as he does seem to forget a lot (or maybe he doesn't listen in the first place) and they say that people with dementia become more and more tactless .
He does have a warm and kind side. He seems bitter. I wish he didn't say bigoted and small minded things .