To think less of dh because he voted for Brexit and reads The Daily Mail?

[Pineda]

I know the Brexit vote was years ago but it really made me lose respect for dh. Obviously we've moved on, but he doesn't read a newspaper apart from the Mail online, is obsessed with tiktok and had no idea who the Archbishop of Canterbury was today. He's in his early 50s. I'm not a pretentious arse but I read a newspaper daily and have a pretty good grasp of politics. I'm beginning to feel as though we don't have much in common. We've been together for 30 years!

I agree. That would be the end for me.

I'm a left of centre remainer who buys the guardian but I read the mail website from time to time. I don't agree with most of it of course but I think it's useful to know peoples takes on other issues.

Re the Brexit thing, depends on why. I worked with a couple of very business savvy people who voted to leave as they thought we'd be able to negotiate better deals. Hasn't happened but I wouldn't hold that against them. Obviously some did it for unpleasant reasons and I'd never respect that but this thread is certainly showing how tribal and black and white a lot of politics is now.

I read the daily mail, also have subs to the times, the washington post, nytimes, telegraph, read the guardian about to treat myself to the atlantic, I don’t think reading a free newspaper makes you an idiot. Voting for brexit doesn’t make you stupid (and assuming that it does says more about you than the people you are insulting).

I’m more left wing than DH, he’s still a good man and makes valid points on politics economics etc. I don’t need him to be in lock step with my views (though it can be frustrating at times). I think someone having different views from you can often be quite good, you have to defend your position and critically examine what you actually know/think about things. No challenge isn’t necessarily a great thing as long as the person you are talking to discusses things openly and in good faith.

Tiktok at 50 is a bit meh though.

This is MN. Literally no one here voted for Brexit or reads the Mail (despite at least one threw a day based on a Mail story, with faux outrage calling it daily fail’. Strange that

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To be fair in real life it is becoming very hard to find anyone who will admit to voting for Brexit and even fewer who are honest enough to admit they regret doing so, despite 17 million voters doing so.

Yawn .

Well I guess the demographic has shifted since the vote happened. So I have two older relatives that have died and two younger relatives that have reached voting age that would have resulted in a four vote shift.

The older generation tended to vote Brexit in much greater numbers than the younger generation so the vote could well have been different if it happened now.

Also Mumsnet is known to be a more educated demographic than the general population and the higher level of academic attainment the less likely people were to vote Brexit. So it's quite likely that this platform has a greater proportion of Remainers than Brexiteers. Not because they're lying about what they voted but because they actually voted Remain.

There is reading it for information and then there is reading the DM and believing all the lies. It appears that Op’s dh is in the latter camp

Are you just realising this now?

@BHRK..

What do you think about the left wingers who wanted brexit then? You can't get a lefty more pure than Jeremy corybn and his crew and they were well known brexiters.

I couldn't stand Corbyn, or more actually some of the people he attracted. Corbyn is on record saying he voted remain though and is on record saying he would vote remain in any second referendum. I might have had some strongly held views about the EU but overall he recognised Brexit was a bad idea and voted accordingly. Obviously we don't know what he actually put his cross next to but in the privacy of the voting booth I'd be more likely to believe Johnson voted remain (actually, very likely to believe Johnson did this) than Corbyn voted Leave

I would nit date a brexit let alone stay married with one. No just no

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