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

[CarbonEmittingPenguin]

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?

ThroughThickAndThin01 Why is that though? But having said that I do think that often times MN is a world apart from RL!

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

littleleftie There is the catch. Whichever party would be elected, it'd be pretty much business as usual. I don't see any party that is seeking to change the status quo. Bar Corbyn, who I don't think will ever make it to number 10 and has even managed to split Labour supporters. At the last election I didn't even know why I was voting for the bother it was, nothing would be different.

We're both floating voters - economically central, socially liberal (couldn't vote for a party whose leader was anti gay marriage/not colourblind etc). We both think that disability benefits are not high enough, but that other welfare benefits are pretty generous. I am slightly more pro-immigration than he is but on the whole we're pretty much the same.

We're both leaning towards Brexit, but feel we could be convinced otherwise.

I'm a floater although I lean to the left rather than the right. OH is firmly right-wing.
We don't discuss politics much!

Dh and I are completely different. I did not find this out until a few years ago when he finally admitted he had voted Conservative all his life. He would never tell me who he was voting for. I had been voting Labour until a few years ago when I switched allegiance to Conservative, but not because he influenced me, I just lost faith in Labour during the Blair years.

DH wants to stay part of Europe and I want Brexit.

We don't argue about it as I am always right!!! (Joke!)
We like to make our own minds up and neither will copy the other unless it is what we want to do.

Both avid tories here (as our both our families).

I could never ever in a million years have married someone who was a left winger.

I do agree with PP who have said that party politics are a bit of a side-issue (e.g. One Nation Conservatives v Thatcherites). It's all about having similar values and placing emphasis on similar things in life.

Boo would you not marry a left winger because(a) you wouldn't be able to stand the marital disharmony or (b) you believe that we are morally wrong?

I'm a firm lefty. Always have been.
DH is somewhere between a liberal and a lefty but he is less interested in politics than I am.
My parents are both liberal minded. My df did vote Tory in 1979 but feels that he was misled by false promises.
My ILs are almost certainly Tories.
My db is a mystery. I have a feeling he may be a Tory or not vote.
My dc aren't yet old enough to have expressed an opinion.

DH and I are both in a quandary about the referendum. We could each go either way!

I'm right wing, he's left wing. We could not be further apart in our political opinions!

I don't think I would ever get involved with a stalwart Tory voter.

Not because I think that we would argue about politics, but I suspect that we would have very little in common in any sphere.

They are quite a rare breed around these part though - maybe if I met one I would change my mind...

GiddyOnZackHunt I remember you from a thread maybe a year or so ago when I was trying to guess what you NN meant! I did finally get there and have always assumed that you are firmly in the 'leftie' camp!

Hell yes. There is no way I could be with someone who didn't share my politics. I would regard it as a completely different way of seeing the world, and I really like that closeness that comes with having a very similar way of looking at things. I have friends of different persuasions, though.

We have similar leanings but don't agree on everything but mostly on major policy we tend to see pretty similarly.

Everyone's very lefty on both sides of our family. Also very politically engaged though dh not so much. Biggest disagreement was about voting for labour leader, I voted corbin and my dad hates him

Mostly all on track to vote to stay in the European union.

I couldn't be with a right winger long term either. World views would be too far apart generally speaking. However, I think I'd rather a torty than an apathetic non-voter.

*Tory not bloody torty

My DH and I vote for opposing political parties but we've learnt not to get into a debate about it. It's OK though, I've planted the seeds in the children's minds already! 😄

I am amazed that so many people are at political odds with their DPs (no negative judgement implied) but I kind of assumed a shared world view and values were a prerequisite to sharing your life with someone. But then again I am fairly into politics and I suppose it is a big deal for me.
DH and I now live abroad and when I asked him what he was going to vote (PR system so more complicated, more scope for choosing multiple candidates) he intended to vote exactly the same as I was going to without us ever having really discussed it. I thought that that was fairly normal but I suppose I am comparing our marriage with my parents which is the same.

I'm a card carrying staunch Corbynite; DP is (gulp) UKIP (or claims to be, probably for effect). He used to be a Leftie. Not sure what happened there.

Carbon yes it does somewhat nail my colours to the mast!

My DH is almost completely politically apathetic - he voted for the first time ever at the GE last year at the age of 30 and that's only because we were out running and I planned that our route would take us past the polling station. I'm quite left-wing, and would probably fall between Corbynite old-school Labour and Green views, when I do get DH thinking about that sort of thing he's a little more centre-left than me.

We both agree with Britain staying in the EU, though we may be biased on this one as ROI citizens!

My dad is very conservative though - votes Fine Gael in Ireland almost exclusively and we've been getting into political arguments for years. My mum is a lifelong Labour voter. DH's parents tend to be quite conservative on certain social issues because they are devoutly Catholic, but would side with Labour-type policy apart from that.

When I was young I could never have lived with a Tory, and didn't. ExH and I were both lefties and both worked in caring professions. I started my current relationship at the age of 50 and decided to compromise - he is quite right wing, we do argue sometimes but it's a waste of time as we're both entrenched. We do agree on Brexit though (leave).
Both my DD imbibed socialist values with their mother's milk.

That's the saddest of sad tales absolutely. You have my commiserations. You must love him very much though.

We are opposites. I think DD is going to vote like me (correct) and DS will probably vote like DH (utterly wrong) when they are older unless I manage to undo the damage before it is too late. I don't enjoy political discussions.

I'm really struggling with OH's sudden love of Brexit.

More or less. I'm from a more middle class background, but fairly left leaning and liberal compared to my parents. DH is from a very leftie working class family, but actually more conservative in his views than I am. We tend to agree on most things, though.