To be annoyed in laws ruined NY fireworks AGAIN!

[Baulin]

So every New Year’s Eve we go to my in laws and have a small get together. However every time the London fireworks start, since the first commentary in 2021, I have to endure a massive rant and rave about left wing agenda which completely ruins the atmosphere of the night. I was dreading the fireworks display last night because I knew all I’d hear from the family is complaining and talking over the show. As soon as I heard the same sex marriage part I thought “oh god here we go” and then the homophobic whining started. I was fuming because it just ruins it for me. It’s as though they’re unable to dislike something without feeling the need to comment on it.

Does anyone else find this annoying from family and do you say anything or just let it go over your head?

You don't have to go.

Pavlovian response?

The rest of the country is majority anti-EU for good reason and not everyone is okay with congestion charges (not to mention his attitude to that pillar of middle class lifestyle, the wood burner), especially those who are tradesmen. Mr Khan (it's not 'Kahn' and nor did I spell it that way) is not flavour of the month with the residents of Uxbridge, for example. He is also not flavour of the month with people who have to drive into London. My brother drives an vintage Mercedes and has to pay every time he visits our mother in Northolt - he lives near Aylestbury - whereas I, who drive a newish Jaguar, do not. He is certainly not in favour of Mr Khan's measures any more than I am - both of us are members of the Labour Party and also leave voters (indeed, our entire families are leave voters) and we are not amused by a politician who quite obviously thinks democracy is only ok if the voters agree with him. Which is why Khan is arrogant.

I get seriously pissed off whenever we see mil her and my husband just bang on about politics. On Christmas day she was in the front room with dh being incredibly like the op's in laws. My husband came into the kitchen where I was with my oldest son and asked if we were coming in the front room so I replied we were hiding because of the politics, mil heard me and she said "oh I'll stop talking politics if it's upsetting everyone" (not in a sarky way either) so maybe just tell them or refuse to go round there next year

If you won’t pull them up on their views then I would hide the remote.

Unlikely. Lots of people are quietly horrified by the spitting rage of left-wing bigots. Note "quietly". No-one wants to be on the receiving end of that. I'm all for gay marriage, but that poster sounded so bloody awful and Red Guardish she had me feeling sorry for the poor old "re-educated" dad.

People are sick of this political messaging being rammed down their throats, especially when they just want to enjoy some fireworks.

The majority of the country is not anti EU. This has never been the case. Leave won by a whisker after a pack of lies by Brexiters and just about every poll since then has shown that most people think Brexit was a bad idea.

We watched the London NYE fireworks on BBC1 last night. Is that the ones you are talking about?
I didn't notice anything "left wing" at all! . Can anyone explain what has annoyed them about these fireworks? It mentioned the NHS once for about 2 seconds - is that it?
Feel like I'm missing something!!

I don't think homophobia is widely accepted as bigotry. Europe is a shining light of tolerance in this regard, for which we should all be thankful for most of the world is both homophobic and racist. The Rwanda massacres were about racism, as was the Holocaust. It is an evil that is hard to eradicate though we must continue to try. I think it would be better to discover the basis for the OP's inlaws' opinions rather than call them bigots. Then you can call them what you like, I guess.

YABU because you keep going back and expecting something to change. Leave them fester in their own bitterness and have your own NYE celebration next time. Tell them why as well.

I managed not to hear much commentary either but I gather that Khan turned it into the Khan show with him saying a lot. Fireworks need to be watched rather than turned into a party political broadcast. I assume that if your in-laws ravings were in tune with your thoughts it would have been OK for them to speak.

The rest of the country is not anti-EU (whatever that means). The Leave campaign scraped a win on 52%.

I would never spend my New Year’s Eve with bigots like those. You deserve to have a fun holiday surrounded by kind people who love you and who you love to be around. Don’t spend next New Year’s Eve with them or any more in the future. Life is too short.

Thanks Judge. When did Khan speak? We watched / listened to the whole thing and didn't notice that! Is it still on iplayer?

I don't remember Brexit being mentioned in the fireworks either? Does someone have a link?

^ this!

I'd be ashamed to have to admit I voted Leave.

Totally fucked up opportunities for our YP, for starters... I probably wouldn't be that keen on congestion charges either if I had to drive in London.

Was the commentary Khan speaking? I thought it was a BBC announcer reading out a preprepared voiceover! I never realised it was broadcasting a speech from the actual mayor of London.

Yes I have to agree; it feels like another occasion to tell us off rather than just a chance to celebrate a new year with friends/family.

The PILs are voicing it in their own home.

I’d just not go in future.

A 4% lead is not a whisker, but a good majority. Afaics few were influenced by the propaganda put out either by Leave or Remain (and Remain could not find one good thing to say about the EU either). Polls are not votes btw and cannot be used as such. You will remember that in 2016 all the polls said that Remain would win, but they were all proved wrong. The majority of people were not happy with free movement of labour, which lowered their wages because of the use by agencies of the various means the EU allows for not paying the local minimum wage. Many were also aware of the ECJ's championing the right of establishment over the rights of trades unionists to fight for and support workers rights. Others, mainly immigrants from the sub-continent, were angry at the racist immigration policies of the EU, which favoured white Europeans over citizens from the Commonwealth (a third of the immigrant population voted to leave). Others were concerned by the anti-environmental fishing policy, when the UK wanted to protect its marine environment from factory ships and Brussels objected. I was myself rather amazed by the 2016 polls, but I believed them, thinking that my own experience of knowing only leave voters must be out of kilter with the country. I was wrong. Personally, I voted on sovereignty, which I had been concerned about from the first. I voted the same way as in 1975.

@Grammarnut My dad is currently lives with my gay DB and his partner 😂He was a homophobe. No bystanders. You dit there and let a homophobe or racist rant and you are part of the problem.

Have your own NYE party instead? Do something else? Don't you have any friends or are your ILs the only people to hang out with?

Oh okay, thank you. Now it makes more sense.

In that case I think I wouldn't bother going to ILs if they are going to rant about what the voiceover is saying.

Although, having said that, watching fireworks with someone waffling on about anything at all sounds as if it might be a tad annoying, regardless of subject matter.

I don't think it was Khan speaking but PP thought it was. Can anyone confirm? Anyway I didn't hear anything "left wing" in the commentary - that's why I'm wondering if I missed something or maybe the iplayer version is different?