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

Why do they have to "tackle" bias and discrimination? You mean they have to treat all their clients equally. This is getting even more bizarre.

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.

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!

For the same reason, I don’t know. And I’m not sure why it matters. Why is it important to you?

Yes, you can detect racist tradesmen or businesses and those who would vote Reform.
Yes, I would encourage all to avoid.
Far right views can appear everywhere.
Avoid them all.
Ps Not all other non British builders are Polish.
Also, not all Polish builders are racist.
Racist to assume that.
But then...
Trust u will recognise the reform/ far right racists tradespeople or businesses.
We want our country back and all that.
Too many of them here bla bla.
Avoid giving them your money. Ever.
Let their toothless fanclub hire them if they can afford to.

Party wise, they hate brown people. They wheel out a few misguided token people.

Bet they would cancel you if they knew.
Trust

In that case why aren't there ex school mates and teachers rushing to defend him?

ETA I don’t know how many are named

How many of the complainants are Jewish or ethnic minority?

Sky analysed the same data

To be fair - your link says Sky analysed two sets of data;

Using the census figures, we get 9.0 sexual offences per 10,000 Afghans, and 2.9 per 10,000 Britons. The Afghan figure is three times higher.

Using the APS figures, we get 59.2 offences per 10,000 Afghans, and 2.7 per 10,000 Britons. That's where Mr Farage's higher figure of 22 times higher comes from.

I wouldn’t assume any of them are lying to be honest. It’s entirely possible for someone to be racist towards some people and not to others of the same group. A bit like all those racists who ‘have black friends’ right? The respectable immigrant, the one who knows their place, they have a better chance if survival/success, depending on context. It was ever thus, from colonialism to camps to capitalism.

ETA I don’t know how many are named, or why that’s important. Must a complainant always put themselves in the public eye to be taken seriously?

His is one the the reason's the BNP collapsed. Again teenage boys say stupid things. This was 50 years ago and completely unsubstantiated

He's praised Indian Hindu immigrants to the UK. He wants control of the immigration so we choose who we let in.

Even Farage didn’t claim that. He said the data showed Afghan nationals were convicted at 22 times the rate of British nationals.

Sky analysed the same data and found it’s more like 3-4 times. Which sounds shocking until you remember that most dales and sexual assaults are committed by perpetrators known to the victim and a vast number go unreported for that reason. Who is more likely to be reported? A stranger. Who is more likely to be convicted? A stranger.

And this is why people are suspicious of Farage and his acolytes. He lies, making an already worrying thing worse and without context, and they parrot. I can see what he has to gain 💰 but those who spread his lies?

https://news.sky.com/story/fact-checking-farage-are-foreigners-more-likely-than-britons-to-commit-sexual-offences-13407029

BTW Bit odd to claim the government tried to hide it when the data was released under a government scheme - FOI - which allows them to prevent release on several grounds.

To be fair - several Jewish and ethnic minority former pupils have also come forward to say that Farage was not racist or antisemitic. Are they lying?

Farage is alleged - by about 30 separate former pupils

How many of the 30 are named and how many are Jewish or ethnic minority?

Just racial banter isn’t it? Not a big deal at all. Those black and brown and Jewish people are probably lying anyway, they just want to see him fail. Tall poppy syndrome isn’t it? Some people just don’t like someone doing well for himself do they.

Just banter:

At school. Farage is alleged - by about 30 separate former pupils - to have:

• Said things like “Gas them” or “Hitler was right” (alleged by one former pupil)
• Used racial slurs toward non-white pupils (specific words vary by account and are disputed in detail in reporting)
• Told fellow pupils of minority or overseas backgrounds to “go back home”
• He himself admitted saying “ridiculous things” but disputed they were racist
• Then a bit later said his comments were not “with intent” and framed them as teenage “banter” (a bit like you have)
• As an adult and politician he’s consistently linked immigrants and all kinds of negativity (not his wife, or his girlfriend, or his latest girlfriend though)
• he’s shared platforms with known racists and used words and imagery associated with the far right
• His party (remember, a limited company not a democratic organisation ) have repeatedly selected candidates who are known to have made racist and anti semitic statements, to have been members or associates of the BNP, EDL or NF
• he repeatedly shrugs this off as ‘in the past’ (teenage banter, perhaps)

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but his behaviour seems pretty consistently racist if you ask me. He’s certainly comfortable in the company of some very unsavoury men.

Just racial banter isn’t it? Not a big deal at all. Those black and brown and Jewish people are probably lying anyway, they just want to see him fail. Tall poppy syndrome isn’t it? Some people just don’t like someone doing well for himself do they.

Just banter:

At school. Farage is alleged - by about 30 separate former pupils - to have:

• Said things like “Gas them” or “Hitler was right” (alleged by one former pupil)
• Used racial slurs toward non-white pupils (specific words vary by account and are disputed in detail in reporting)
• Told fellow pupils of minority or overseas backgrounds to “go back home”
• He himself admitted saying “ridiculous things” but disputed they were racist
• Then a bit later said his comments were not “with intent” and framed them as teenage “banter” (a bit like you have)
• As an adult and politician he’s consistently linked immigrants and all kinds of negativity (not his wife, or his girlfriend, or his latest girlfriend though)
• he’s shared platforms with known racists and used words and imagery associated with the far right
• His party (remember, a limited company not a democratic organisation ) have repeatedly selected candidates who are known to have made racist and anti semitic statements, to have been members or associates of the BNP, EDL or NF
• he repeatedly shrugs this off as ‘in the past’ (teenage banter, perhaps)

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but his behaviour seems pretty consistently racist if you ask me. He’s certainly comfortable in the company of some very unsavoury men.

A friend of my DC told me his gf and his gf's sister get regularly hissed at by the asylum seekers who were moved into the area.

A friend of my DC told me his gf and his gf's sister get regularly hissed at by the asylum seekers who were moved into the area.

They'd lie because he's a big political figure and they'd know it'd hurt him

Are you saying that the Jewish people accusing him of being anti-semitic as a teenager are lying? Why would they do that? Why would the students from black and ethnic minority backgrounds also lie about his racism? Why would his ex-teachers?

My friend’s sister’s neighbour’s brother-in-law’s cousin, twice removed, said he saw asylum seekers being booked into The Ritz for afternoon tea.

Unfounded and unsubstantiated claims from 50 years ago.

Unfounded and unsubstantiated claims from 50 years ago.

Only Hindus?
What about the Sikhs,Muslims and atheist brown people?
Don't they have educational drive and work hard?
Wait didn't Farage like making gas hissing noise to jews and
he subjected black and ethnic minority students to racist abuse, including telling them to "go back to Africa" or "go back home.

If that isn't HATING brown people kindly explain what is?