to think that people who denounce their friends for voting differently to them are pathetic?

[kinkytoes]

Should they also live in the same type of house as you, drive the same type car as you and do the same type of job as you too?

I've seen lots of people saying they'd disown their friends, even their partners for voting differently. It flies in the face of democracy and makes me very angry.

People are much much more than just their voting preferences.

If you're saying it totally ridiculous to judge people based on the way they vote, are you telling us you'd be best friends with someone who voted for the BNP or similar?

But how would you know? It's entirely possible for people to keep their beliefs to themselves & just tick a box at the right time

And you know what, if I genuinely liked the person, got on with them and it wasn't a subject that came up - yes, I could still be friends with them - friendships don't tend to have just one aspect.

I'd just tut & shake my head at their lunatic beliefs....

Amazingly enough, the hard left-wingers who supposedly breathe 'diversity' and 'tolerance' are completely intolerant of diversity if you happen to have different political opinions!

Vile little shits that they are.

I don't think that the BNP are mainstream - that is the key difference for me.

Yes, selfish and unpleasant people exist. But most people vote for the party who they feel will best serve the country. The fact that we may disagree on how the country is best served doesn't make somebody horrible or scum or nasty. That is very different to explicit racism which the BNP promotes.

I could absolutely not be friends with anyone who voted UKIP, DUP, BNP.

I'd be friends with a Tory voter but I'd probably roll my eyes at them a bit around election time. Wouldn't willingly enter into a romantic relationship with a Tory voter though. It would just get too tense.

Power - um - maybe look up 'cognitive dissonance' there's a love.

I've got friends that are sexist, I think that by chip, chip, chipping away at them I've changed their outlook - not totally, but it's getting there.

If I'd just dropped them they'd still be as bad as they were.

I really don't get the whole "comply or you're out" ideals of the borg socialists.

Er. It's hardly '"comply or you're out" . It's more like 'don't be a racist arsehole'.

You don't get why people can be friends with whosoever they like? For any reason?

How odd.

sooty thank you. The first paragraph of your last post gives me hope!

Power - um - maybe look up 'cognitive dissonance' there's a love.

Look up 'Five More Years' and 'Ed Miliband goes to the Jobcentre'.

HTH.

You don't get why people can be friends with whosoever they like? For any reason?

Exactly. Even if they're of a different political persuasion.

I'd go so far as to say that anyone who is dropping friends based on their vote in this election is actually a very shallow individual indeed - the "friendship" obviously wasn't much cop to begin with and your "friend" is much better off without you, you've done them a favour!!

Surely outing your vote is a way of saying this me?
So if you get judged and dropped, so be it.

Doesn't it cut both ways, i.e Farage nobbers are glad to be rid of Labour overs. Win win?

OP, I've never come across a post that so identifies like interests in so shallow a way, e.g houses and cars.

Do you work for the Daily Mail?

Power - um - maybe look up 'cognitive dissonance' there's a love.

Or maybe you could yourself look up: "patronizing failure" . I will even give you an head-tilt.

It's shallow to have basic principles? I guess tory voters would say that.

With the exception of outward racist parties, I wouldn't un-friend someone for voting for a particular party. However, I would forever be wearing my judgy pants depending on who the other party was.

Who you vote for says an awful lot about your values. To say any different is disingenuous. Democracy means you get to have a say not that other people can't say something about what you said.

I wouldn't denounce anyone but I couldn't be friends with someone who voted Tory or UKIP. I'd just feel like our world outlook were too different. Same for people who don't vote at all.

For myself I have acquaintances who I suspect of being right-wing twunts. As long as they don't vaunt this in front of me, I can carry it. The minute they do, it's showtime.

YABU. I think people who demonise 'single mothers', 'immigrants', 'benefit scroungers' or whoever is today's scapegoat, rather than basing their judgements on facts, are pathetic.

It's shallow to realise that life is too short to surround yourself with people whose beliefs are at odds with your own? Okaaay then.

I don't regard politics as a small part of who you. I wouldn't denounce my friends, but I'm extremely depressed about the conservative win, sad though that is I'm gutted. I've lashed out (in my head) at Tory voters.

Some friendships weren't made to last.

You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

But squoosh if you enjoy their company isn't that what really matters? As pp have pointed out you might not even know they vote differently to you.

Unless its BNP which is racist and bigoted party, than I totally agree with you. I voted Conservative, I am not rich, I don't have a second home, and hardly any savings, but I agree, you have to manage on a budget which is what they are doing. Under Tory rule, my dh and I have had fantastic experiences of the NHS, dd goes to an LEA Autistic school which is wonderful, and gets DLA.

You're missing a rather large point, OP. IF you know what they voted, they must be loud about it. They are likely to be loud about their views as well.