Like other PPs I would be interested if my DCs decided to do something so active politically. I'd also ask them why. Our family wafts around floating. It is critical to engage, discuss and think. I would hate for them to be on any activist wing that hangs opposition parties in effigy (Manchester) or treats them like scum or bullies working volunteers (Tory activists last election).
@Jemima - the Tory party have had two female leaders. Harriet Harman was acting PM for a few months .. go figure. And I do remember when covering parliament most of the worst paid secretaries were Labour though some of the Tories were pretty mean. And one of the biggest property owners was one Michael Meacher. Though, granted, he didn't have a duck house in any of his 9 properties, or get funding to clear his moat.
@Derxa Try joining Momentum ... and leaving. Clearly activists of any party want to recruit, get you out on the street, stuffing envelopes, working your FB contacts, and contributing to campaigns. That's activism. Been there for charities. No one likes you to leave.
@makeourfuture the Tory party were not great re apartheid or juntas (thinking Margaret Thatcher) though a number spoke out a long time before 1990-4. Macmillan's Winds of Change speech in 1960 to the RSA parliament which reflected on the intention to back off colonialism and emphasised the rights of all people? However, it wasn't the Tories who took us into Iraq on meretricious information they spun to the Commons and to us. It's not the Tories (currently) accused of anti-semitism.
@DJBaggy Gordon Brown sold off our gold reserves before the gold price soared and went on a pension fund raid which meant a huge number of people decided they needed to invest in housing/second homes to give them any sort of return for their future. However, it was the Tories who snuck in the reforms that meant women born after 1952/3 could only get state pension at 67 - without letting them know via the tax system so they could protest and/or provide for themselves. Interestingly I can't remember any of the women's programmes/Money advice sites picking it up either.
Gordon Brown went wholescale with a Tory idea of PFIs for schools and hospitals which has crippled certain NHS trusts (can you believe a charity set up to fundraise to pay the interest charges for a new hospital built with PFI? ) Who introduced tuition fees (Brown)? who raised them (Osborne).
Clearly we all need to be more politically informed. I'd praise anyone who got seriously involved and didn't just tick boxes as an armchair warrior on social media. Demonising other people doesn't help. So I hope the OP is still talking to her DC.