Colleagues photo op with reform MP - AIBU

[OhNoItsThePinkyPonk]

I do some ad hoc work for a medium-sized healthcare charity. We have a group Facebook page and I regularly get updates as to what’s been going on.
The most recent update contained images of smiling colleagues hobnobbing with their local MP who happens to be a member of the Reform Party and I confess I was absolutely gobsmacked. The rational part of me says they were simply doing what any good charity should and building relationships with local politicians; nonetheless I instantly felt like quitting and having nothing to do with them again as I find this particular individual odious in the extreme and feel considerable disappointment that colleagues of mine chose not only to take their own photos, presumably with some pride, but then posted them on our private group where they serve no purpose other than to brag that these individuals met that individual.
AIBU to move on from this role now I have discovered that my team appear to lean in a political direction vastly different from my own? For reference there are 150 of us in the private group and not one comment has been made, positively or negatively.

Are you serious.

YABU

Thanks, just what I needed. Am being a bit dramatic.

Yes quit immediately and move on if your colleagues cause you such disappointment.

Surely you can't be serious? You will meet very many people in your life with all sorts of differing opinions and political persuasions. As an adult you are expected to just get on with it. Ironically you seem to be the one showing enormous intolerance and prejudice and have lumped all 150 colleagues in the same box. If you did wish to speak out, you could simply comment on the photo and politely ask what the meeting was about. That might give you some more context instead of flouncing out of an organisation.

Rather extreme overreaction.

@OhNoItsThePinkyPonk - I understand completely where you're coming from. I would find it tricky too.

A huge percentage of the population voted Reform. If you can't tolerate working alongside people with different political views to you you are going to find going through life very tricky.

You're right when you say that it makes sense for a business or charity to take the opportunity to make connections with their elected representative. Surely you can't take the view that only an MP belonging to your preferred party deserves to represent you (whether individually or as an organisation)? Although she/he wasn't elected by all the constituents she/he does represent them all. Connections like that your colleagues are forging can be valuable for lobbying purposes as well as pictures on the socials.

You’re absolutely right. I’m being a div. Appreciate the reality check.

Of course charities have to connect with their local MP. If she was 'hobnobbing' in her role within the organisation, then you're being absolutely ridiculous.

Our CEO had to hold her nose when meeting our Tory MP, especially as the government at the time was actively working against everything that we stood for. But it was an event where we needed to be represented, and we needed him to be aware of us.

Your elected MP is Reform. I can understand why you're not happy but he is elected and it is what it is.

The charity needs all the help it can get so just bite your tongue and ignore your colleagues.

Thanks MN, all valid and useful. I shan’t reply individually but appreciate the collective advice and acknowledge all points. FWIW I have concluded I am being irrational and unreasonable, just needed to have that pointed out before I did something silly.