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

I agree we need new infrastructure. But you are skipping over the central problem: we cannot afford to destroy what is left of our industrial base while building it.

The UK already has some of the highest industrial electricity costs in the developed world. That is not a small detail. It means factories, steel, chemicals, manufacturing and heavy industry become less competitive, investment goes elsewhere, and we end up poorer and more dependent on imports.

That is not “embracing the transition”. That is outsourcing our emissions and calling it virtue. It's not reducing carbon output either it's just moving it to another country.

Nobody serious is saying “never build renewables” or “never build new infrastructure”. The point is sequencing. Build nuclear. Build grid capacity. Use solar and wind where they work. Keep domestic oil and gas while we still need them. Do not kneecap British industry before the replacement system is actually there.

And remember, the rest of the world is not looking at Britain’s energy policy and thinking “what a brilliant model”. They can see the bills, the deindustrialisation risk, the grid constraints and the fantasy timetable.

Net zero may be admirable as an aim. I agree with the philosophy. But pursuing it in a way that makes the country poorer, weaker and more dependent is self-defeating and obviously so.

More than half of Reform party members want non-white British citizens to be forcibly removed or encouraged to leave the UK. Nearly a quarter of party members feel the same about non-white British citizens who were born in the UK to non-white parents who were also born in the UK. Not "illegal migrants". British citizens who happen to have the wrong colour skin.

That's more than half of Reform party members wanting my DH to leave the country and nearly a quarter wanting my DD to leave as well. So you can tell me that they aren't far right or racist until the cows come home, but I won't believe you because the evidence simply doesn't back you up.

As for people feeling ignored, I'm suggesting that we shun them once they have already gone over to the far right. Pointless even bothering them once they have been radicalised. I'm absolutely not suggesting that we ignore anyone else.

Hopefully it ends in people with far right racist views being ostracised and losing trade.

Im in a very pro person employment similar to your therapist and consider myself to be very person centred so dislike reform immensely. However my husband would vote for them in an election tomorrow and not necessarily for their immigration policies but because he thinks something drastic has to happen for things to get better. Do I agree? Nope. Is he entitled to his own political opinion - yes 100%. Does his political views impact my job role? Nope I don’t give it a second thought. Actually probably makes me less judgemental as I know someone’s politics or beliefs don’t necessarily make them a good/bad person as it’s just part of them.

Aren't Farage's ex wife, his children and his current girlfriend EU citizens? Very hypocritical to make sure his children have EU passports and access to things the rest of us do not. I'm sure they don't have any fears of being deported as they are clearly the right kind of immigrants.

It’s not about our role in climate change. It’s about embracing the transition and reducing our reliance on expensive imported oil and gas. We have to build the new infrastructure at some point. Or we can act like Trump and abandon the industry to the Chinese and then reap the consequences down the line.

I'm not pro-reform and will vote tactically to keep them out, but shunning people does not bring a country to a more united centrist view.

Hopefully it ends in people with far right racist views being ostracised and losing trade.

You can stop therapy for whatever reason you want and if you feel uneasy around your therapist it’s probably best that you do.

There’s a reasonable chance that your therapist does not agree with her idiot husband’s views, which I hope you realise. But at the same time, I’m always puzzled by relationships like this- this man has married a woman who according to his own beliefs should not live here? And she’s apparently fine with that. To each their own.

Or she’s one of those who thinks she’s one o the Good Immigrants.

…….I may or may not have immigrant relatives that support Le Pen. All it took was a few decades for them to forget the bidonvilles.

Yes, and it's something you might bring to therapy.

Yes, I can read very well thanks. That doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with what I’m reading. OP has lost trust in their therapist simply because they don’t agree with the politics of their spouse. Nothing whatever to with the standard of care they are receiving. Once we start down this road, where does it end ?

That is a lot of abuse in place of an argument.

Saying “people vote Reform because they feel ignored” is not gaslighting. It is a basic political observation. You do not have to like their reasons, but pretending millions of people are just racist fuckwits is lazy and self-satisfied.

You keep repeating “far right racist party” as if saying it often enough makes it true. It does not. We do not have a major far-right racist party in this country. Reform certainly is not that when judged by its actual policies and actions, rather than by the worst things people have heard about it second or third hand.

Wanting lower immigration, stronger borders, less net zero cost, or a different relationship with the EU is not the same thing as racism or fascism.

It also devalues the language we need for actual Nazis and actual political extremism. If every immigration sceptic is treated as a fascist, the word loses force when we really need it.

This kind of polarised debate is awful for nuance. It turns every disagreement into a moral emergency and makes honest discussion impossible. People are accountable for their votes, yes. But so are you for the way you talk about ordinary voters. If your response to their concerns is contempt, abuse and moral grandstanding, do not be surprised when they stop listening.

Well all the arguments I see for it - 'they're not our kind of people, they're a danger to our women and girls, they're sexual predators, our cultures are incompatible, we can't afford to keep them, they aren't educated, they'll be a drain, they're criminals' etc etc were the same as I've just read in a book about the proposed abolition of slavery in Georgia, US.
We're entitled to our opinions, yours is that you're not racist, mine is that if you are using the same arguments as those who didn't want slaves to be set free, you are racist.