AIBU to stop therapy after learning my therapist’s husband is Reform?

It is characterised by dictorial power and this poster promoting violence against people who don’t subscribe to her way of thinking is where the far left goes round and reaches the far right

That's not actually what fascism is.

You’re just repeating yourself, so I’ll assume you don’t have any more information yourself.

What Reform have proposed would cut bills by about £80-170 per household per year - funded by cuts to public spending, much of which the poorest households rely on - but it would still be much more expensive than comparator countries.

What absolute codswallop. Nobody is under any obligation to go to any particular therapist and - notwithstanding whatever notice period etc. may have been agreed - they can stop any time they like for whatever reason they like.

And not wanting to ostracise parts of the population doesn't mean you have to tolerate people who actually ARE doing things that are morally repugnant or, more importantly, practically harmful to the rest of us.

Why would you say something so aggressive?? That is what facsim is. Telling someone they can’t beleive something and they can’t vote that way. I don’t vote reform but neither do I stoop to the level of just being horrible.

From a cannon?

Poor little Reform supporters. All they want to do is vote through a referendum that decimates our economy and stifles our children's futures; shout their tits off about immigration policy that is both potentially devastating to thousands and economically self-defeating anyway; render the climate of the very Earth we live on uninhabitable; jump to conclusions about every damn crime that gets reported about how it must have been those horrible muslim asylum seekers (and then go strangely silent when they're wrong); go to marches to hear the likes of Tommy Ten Names spout vile, bigoted crap about their bogeyman du jour; vote for a party that openly plans to remove free access to healthcare, destroy the government's tax base and therefore all possibility of decent public services with it, and turbo-charge our already spiralling economic inequality...

And people won't even be nice to them and be their fwiends!

The far right insanity taking over the world at the moment is a revolting disease, and the people who openly and proudly attempt to impose it upon our futures can go wallow in their festering hole of self pity and do whatever they have to do. It's not our responsibility to make them feel better about their racism or their gullibility. Our responsibility as citizens and as parents is to fight back and salvage whatever sliver of hope for humanity we can.

I'm not going to tell you you should find another therapist, but that's what I'd be doing. And I'd tell her exactly why.

You should get out more then.

No it's not. Have literally never heard of anyone firing their therapist or being fired by their therapist having worked in the field for 30 years. It's errant nonsense.

'Fired' in respect of therapy is usual parlance. Sometimes clients fire their therapist and sometimes therapists fire their clients. Yes therapists are often, but not always, self employed but that makes them more not less vulnerable. They won't have employment protection rights. If everyone took the stupid approach of op, firing someone they have no actual problem with but based on the political views of her husband, then she would struggle to earn a living right? It would be a witch hunt. Any time a group of people decide that another section of the population are scum based on beliefs or politics or religion or skin colour, and and that such section of the population should be boycotted and ostracised, you are basically looking at oppression and mob rule. It's the antithesis of a civilised society and not the kind of society I want to live in.

And to all the posters who expect higher standards of therapists than other professionals it shows a deep seated misunderstanding of what therapy is. What op should actually do is raise his issues with the therapist and talk it through - that would be far more productive and therapeutic. But I dare say he won't because he sounds like a pompous arse who prefers to see others as lesser than himself.

Cutting carbon taxes, green levies and VAT will bring costs down

If you want to judge a woman for the company she keeps then it seems like feminism still has quite a way to go

This has nothing to do with feminism, or misogyny, or the gender of the therapist. The OP would probably feel exactly the same if her therapist was a man married to a Reform councillor. It just so happens that the therapist is a woman.

What is your view on what Kenyon has said? I

It makes perfect sense. What doesn't make sense is why as a person who purports not to support Reform you started a thread to discredit Andy Burnham in the stated hope it would make people in Makerfield not vote for him.
Every person in Makerfield who doesn't vote Burnham (or Shepherd if right leaning) is contributing to a Reform win.
What also doesn't make sense is why you took such a strong stance about Burnhams remarks, yet are pretty much silent about Kenyon's, while framing yourself as the neutral voice of reason, seeking only to raise the quality of debate and protect women's rights.

You've known, and liked this lady for a year. She is good for you, but you plan to cut the relationship because you dislike her husband's politics

It's not just that the OP dislikes her husband's politics, it's what it says about the therapist that she married a Reform Councillor. The OP may feel that she needs to be alined with the therapists own standards and beliefs, and this has broken that alignment. The relationship that a client has with a therapist has to be one of trust for it to work, and if the OP feels no longer feels that the therapist has her trust (for any reason at all), then she can, and probably should, end it.

Yes. Ahead in the polls but still with a minority of the population supporting them.

Get over yourself.

The left is far more of a threat to women than Reform will ever be. I've given this click bait shit enough of my day.

You can build out nuclear, renewables whilst not taxing fossil fuels and making end user bills more expensive. We can use the north sea for while it lasts and explore shale gas reserves.

I thought I had made myself abundantly clear but apparently I haven't so I will try again.

Reform should absolutely be held to account

There is plenty wrong with their policies

They have plenty of people in the party who should not be

As they are leading the polls, they need and deserve even greater scrutiny than other parties (though so do the Greens) and I very much welcome it

I'm not voting for them

The way we hold them to account is by clearly and intelligently criticising their policies, manifestos and actions.

It is not by shouting Nazi, Far Right and race supremacy. Because those accusations are demonstrably false and it gives Reform's defenders - not me - the ammunition needed to dismiss those emotional attacks

When what is actually needed is clear firm, not emotional, critiques of their position.

Does that make sense?

I am appealing for a higher quality of political debate because otherwise we really are in trouble.

I would add however there is no party on the left that has a clear unequivocally supportive stance on female rights to safety, privacy and dignity in single sex spaces. And that worries me a lot.

Racial banter! I think that is just racism.

Jesus - you can find a new therapist for whatever reason - why do you think we should have an opinion - a bunch of random strangers? Or is this just to bash reform? Come on OP - at lease find a different angle! (i am a foreigner as well before you accuse me of being some racist)

If you’ve raised teenagers who use ‘racial banter’ then well done, you’ve raised racist teenagers. My brother was racially abused by children at primary school, he was 5. He stopped going to school for the best part of a year and tried to scrub himself white, was that just banter? He should shrug it off, I’m sure those kids grew up to be decent people. Except they didn’t, and two of them are now in prison for a racially motivated murder.

Oh, they are politically left-leaning alright - they live in a fantastic, unreal world, their own world, not available to us - take GPs, for instance - they are private partnerships when it comes to profits and work, yet they are paid by the taxpayer. So they can decide on their working hours, salaries, profits (which are increased by not sending patients to specialist consultants, thus conserving the money pot for themselves) - they operate like private businesses. Yet they are totally free of the pressures of private business - don't have to find clients, don't have to worry about how clients will pay, don't have to work, like dogs, with insurance companies, etc. because the state, taxpayer, will find them clients and will pay for each and every client. Why not be left-leaning? Oh, yes, and the state first educates them for free (please don't tell me about home tuition fees - those pathetic fees don't cover anything, it is foreign students who pay real tuition fees) trains them for free to become a consultant. Oh, wait, not for free - the state PAYS them to train to become a consultant. And then consultants are able to work at the same time on the NHS and privately - conflict of interest, much? And create queues on the NHS by doing the bit (in the same speciality!!!!) on the side.

Of course they are left-leaning - they live in a made-up world!