to have told my friend to fuck off?

[BanKittenHeels]

I have a new friend, we get on really well and have a lot in common. I work with her but see her a fair bit out of work, it is important for our jobs that we have a good relationship.

Recently with the election she has become obsessive about her party of choice. We happen to have the same political views but I choose not to shout about them on social media.

Said friend has been on social media in the last week saying that anyone who doesn’t vote for her party of choice is “an oppressor”.

Today anyone who votes and doesn’t mention who they are voting for is getting drilled by her.
I rarely post on social media but today I put up a #dogsatpollingstations post, because the world deserves to see more of my dog (and my DC are excited about the election process). I then got a message saying that I needed to outright say who I voted for, that “silence is not an option” and in not sharing my vote I am a “closet Tory” and “siding with the oppression”.

AIBU to have told her to fuck off?
She is now ranting on Instagram about people “voting blue but demanding silence”.
This woman is 38, a professional and intelligent woman who for the rest of the year I have known her has barely been politically active and has been very pleasant to spend time with.

What happened to it being bad manners to ask who someone votes for?

Does she understand the whole point of a private vote in a booth? She sounds likes prat

*like a

I saw somebody doing this on LinkedIn! In front of all of their colleagues and network, 'If you don't vote Corbyn, you can fucking delete me!' Her responses to anybody challenging her were very sweary and aggressive.

A new low.

The aggressive urge to dominate is in the very DNA of the hard Left.

It's so noticeable now, but why? That's what I don't understand, the 'why'.

I don't understand why its so noticeable now.

"No. Read the Secret Ballot Act 1872 - Now fuck off!"

HTH

I am facebook friends with someone who has asked that anyone who was going to vote tory, should defriend her as politics transcends friendship. I havent defriended her so far but will do so now, having read all these posts

@sheofmanynames They could, but they're probably Labour!

If she is harassing colleagues about how they voted, you need to say something to management at work.

YANBU at all.
No one has the "right" to know for whom you voted - that's between you and the ballot box! If you want to shout about it, that's up to you/her - but absolutely no way do you attempt to force anyone else to share that info.

the irony of these people is theyve only been in the labour party 5 minutes and will soon piss back off when sanity is resumed

oh this was from a month ago

Some people are still going btw. Friend who was normal before can't tell a story without mentioning Tories🤷 "And we were doing and and that guy, the tory, said..." I just ignore it now, and tbh it just makes me want to vote them🙄 if I could vote...
Funny that I haven't heard any tories around me behaving that way...

Ballots are secret for a reason.

And people like your friend are that reason.

I would cool the friendship personally.

Nearly a Zombie thread, people.

@BanKittenHeels Any update? How are things with her now?

You don't have to tell people who you're voting for, WTF. I was open about voting Labour but I get that some people would rather keep their vote a secret.

Also I love the Dogs at Polling Stations hashtag.

If you need a good relationship for work purposes, i may tone down the language, but I would certainly distance myself from her.
If she asks her I would say her constant talk about politics and aggressive attitude is both annoying and boring.

But a bit sad that you lied in the exit poll. Not helpful for the millions desperately going by it to gauge the results.

I know this is an older thread, but as a PP said, people are still persisting with it.

This is a genuine question, but what is the actual point of the exit polls? I've never understood. If polls are taken well into a term of government to research and monitor mid-term opinions (e.g. "If there were a general election tomorrow, which way would you vote?"), but even if the result could be guaranteed 100% accurate, exactly whom and how does it actually help to know the result a few hours earlier than it's officially announced anyway? All I can think of is bookies, to enable them to change the odds in their favour.

Who the hell is "desperately going by exit polls"? We all know they're not 100% reliable, and we find out soon enough which way the wind is blowing from the official result. There is no civic obligation to tell the truth to a commercial organisation that chooses to run exit polls.

The exit poll is for the news organisations as they’d having nothing to report until the wee hours without it! And it doesn’t matter if you lie on it, it’s not solely what you put down as your vote that is analysed. Hence why it’s fairly accurate even with people lying.

I'll rephrase it: I'm not some kind of idiot just because I voted Labour. I don't need to be educated.

I'm surprised my post using the 'r' word got removed, I thought slurs were OK here.

Wow. I'm an anti-Tory voter as well, but this is totally OTT and borders on stalking. In any case, there is no election now, or perhaps for nearly 5 years, so this obsession seems odd.

Funny thing, the Tories look after themselves but allow freedom of thought, extreme Labour supporters look after others but don't allow freedom of expression.