Both in their 80s and both seem to have become stereotypically more right wing and nastier as they've aged. Dad in particular was a proper lefty when young. Both are now Farage fans, on the basis that the country can't afford benefits or immigrants.
We had a family gathering at the weekend and quite deliberately Dad started a conversation about Farage and the things he said at school (His view that everyone did it at the time, mine that what Farage did went beyond that).
I've learned to breathe deeply and ignore or BIL and I will have a seperate conversation while this is going on. DSis will argue back.
So, I wasn't paying full attention but somehow they got onto Boris and his antics during lockdown. Mum justifying it as something that really didn't matter, just drinks after work etc.
This was during a time when both Dsis and I were working in school and not allowed to have a coffee in the staff room and my DH was dying and in hospital for three months without any visitors at all. He was a completely changed man by the time I and his DC got to see him again. Parents naturally know all this and the toll it took on me.
I know lots of people thought the lockdown rules were ridiculous, but many of us has no option but to comply with the rules he set, at great personal cost.
To hear that awful time dismissed by my own mother has brought back the trauma. I know trauma is an over used word, but that is absolutely what I experienced during that time.
I usually pop round every few days and I really don't want to go.