To ask if in your household you all share similar political leaning?

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Just curious really. I've always been a LibDem supporter but since they've been blown into oblivion I'm considering changing my support or rather joining another party. I'm quite politically active so these topics do interest me. My H is a Tory through and through, come the EU referendum I'm going to vote to stay and he'll vote to leave. Our dcs are also split, they haven't had the opportunity to vote yet but at the next election they will do. Does everyone in your family home or even your family members have similar political views as you?

I've often been left with 'bad feeling' after political arguments. Maybe I take it far too personally, but the slightest hint of casual xenophobia or unconscious misogyny seems to bug me. I don't seeing my own family / 'loved ones' fall for this shit.

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Through I'm not ungenerous of nature: quite the opposite. I feel that Tory policy is ungenerous of nature - bedroom tax, DLA cuts - and people who support Tory policy must agree with such unappealing policies. Making life difficult for disabled/poor people isn't high on my list of desirable traits in a friend/partner.

Yoko, you have your views and other people have theirs. Luckily my friends love me for the whole package that I am, and not for who I tend to vote for. I dont think i could be friends with anyone as narrow minded as that, and happily my leftie friends and those in my family aren't. I only come across it on MN.

ThroughThickAndThin01 I've not long been a MN member but in the time that I have I've noticed a lot of vitriol towards Tory voters/supporters. I don't know why that is considering in the main I'd have expected the opposite.

Yes, DH & I have very similar political views.

But don't your political views inform who you are? Mine prevent me from working in certain jobs, for example. I just can't understand voting out of self-interest, when the most vulnerable people in society are marginalised by Tory policy. It sits really uncomfortably with me.

We always expect to be referred to as cunts OP . And have to be very brave to post before an imminent election.

I'm not an out and out Tory by any means, just slightly right of centre politically, and haven't always voted. I would probably never vote Labour but could see LibDem if they could get their act together.

Im not very political and don't discuss in RL often, but I do know that my Sil (brothers wife) and niece, and SIL (DH sister) and her DH, and two very close friends all voted Labour last time. We are very, very close. I'm always surprised by the MN left typical of Yokos posts, who don't know anyone who has voted Tory let alone could possibly be friends with them.

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God no! I couldn't live with a Tory. Teen DC are left wing fortunately.

It's a question of values for most people I suspect. I couldn't respect trust or like someone with such different morals and ethics to me.

We are both very left.

I couldn't have a relationship with anyone who voted Tory.

I'm a member of the green party and DH is a Tory.

After years of having screaming (me ) arguments, we just don't talk about it anymore.

DH will just lie about certain things because he knows that I will get upset if he tells the truth.

dp and I are both very left wing, although he doesnt vote and I do.

We both agree on staying in the EU

I dont think I could be with someone who didnt share at least vaguely similar politics.

I do know Tories, but I always end up arguing with them. My cousin once started banging on about 'gold-plated public sector pensions' (she'd bought into the public v private sector divide-and-conquer Conservative line of a few years back...). I pointed out to her that both her parents were in receipt of their public sector pensions, which were paying for the holiday home she was currently staying in. She knows to avoid bringing up politics when I'm in the room nowadays.

I'm far more left wing than DH who is pretty right wing. I'm broadly left of centre. We don't discuss it as he's just so wrong entrenched in some of his views and I cba to argue.

He is a pretty good feminist ally now though.

I would find it very difficult to be in a relationship with someone whose political views were very different to mine. Surely your politics comes from the sort of person you are? I know Tories who are very unhappy with the way the Conservative party is going, and in a Harold Macmillan One Nation sort of way are almost as out of step with Cameron as I am. And whose instincts are probably closer to mine than some members of New Labour. It's not straightforward.

But to answer the original question, yes, everyone old enough to vote in our house votes the same.

Dh used to be conservative leaning but over the years I've persuaded him over to the left. I think the last few years would have been unbearable if we'd disagreed on politics!

Both Labour voters and if DH was a Tory voter, our relationship would not have happened. For me - being a Tory voter is a world apart from my fundamental views. I couldn't live with someone who didn't share the same fundamental views as me.

We are all left leaning, yes, particularly on my side of the family.

My DH is a lifelong Labour voter and a gleeful Corbynite leftie.

Me and my mum are also lifelong Lab voters, but more 'Progress' Labour than 'Momentum'. We both believe Corbyn is a disaster for Labour's chances of getting in and a sexist, SWP-esque dinosaur.

DH's family live in the US and are Democrats and backing Bernie Sanders, so fairly left for Americans.

DH is a lot more right-wing than me. He grew up in a tribally Tory household and his parents liked Margaret Thatcher. In contrast, my parents had massive Vote Labour posters in our windows come election time (before they got disillusioned with New Labour's and the party's move to the right). My mum's parents were such fervent socialists that they refused to buy their council house as a matter of principle. My dad's parents were much wealthier.

Neither of us have departed massively from our upbringing and will probably cancel each other out in the EU referendum (me - stay, DH - leave). I have voted a mixture in the past (Green, Labour and Lib Dem). DH has voted a mixture of Tory and Labour. I sometimes find politics a bit hard to keep up with, however, and am probably not as well-informed as I could be.

We're both lefties. I'm more so than dh nowadays.

I couldn't share my life with a right winger. Our values for society would be too different for it to work.

Yes the same. We both Hate the tories and Ukip and think Corbyn is wrong. We are right in the middle and no-one appeals atm.
Both voting 'staying in'

We're very similar, could easily be classified as as "one nation Conservatives".

DH and I have both voted at different times for both Labour and Conservative candidates. We both hover around the centre but I lean a little right and he leans a little left. That said, I would describe him as more socially conservative than I am. When he's annoyed with me, he likes to claim that I hate poor people... I really, really don't.