To be completely shocked about someone I used to know

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When my youngest was at primary school I really liked this woman who had kids either side of mine.

She was in the PTA equivalent and was just a nice woman. There was no drama around her.

I remember having a day off and went into the local cafe, and she invited me to sit with her friends. She was funny, warm and witty.

Significantly, she had friends of all ethnicities and her best friend was Asian.

Everybody will relate to being busy but I think if it was a different time in my life or we had kids in same year we would have been mates.

I am absolutely shocked that she is a member of a right wing political party and has a presence in that party, utterly and completely shocked.

I know it’s not illegal but God.

All three of my siblings are Tories, I’m not someone who thinks everyone has to think like me but I am stunned.

Mumsnet hates this, but I have had a physical reaction to the news. I am just Gobsmacked and weirdly let down and I do know that’s a stupid, irrational thing to say.

Sorry Percy x-post.

It’s a honest one and I stand by it! At least I am not judgmental

Is it really boomers people are talking about when they talk about the British stiff upper lip? I thought that was more the silent generation. A stiff upper lip isn't exactly what I'd identify the boomers with. Do the ageing hippies and yuppies have a stuff upper lip?

I’m not up on what reform are entirely so there may be more wording etc but the other country I know well has policies that are very hardline in terms of immigration

But under a Labor gov.

Imo we’re in a period of change wrt migration and we’ll see shifts here and in EU and US

It’s not classic conspiracy theorist behaviour to call someone naive, out of touch, blind, misunderstanding, is it? Of course not. It’s completely sane behaviour.

"The new far right"?!!

Good grief.

Would you say that about Hitler?

"This thread is a perfect advert for the sanctity of the secret ballot, though!"

This is so true @MrRydersParlourGame

I remember as a child asking my dad who he was voting for and he actually told me off 😅 he told me it's private and personal and to mind my own business! I wish we'd just go back to that tbh.

Would you say that about Hitler?

Are you comparing poor old Richard Tice to Hitler now?

Aaaaannd Hitler has entered the chat. It was only a matter of time.

You're right wing.

You're a disgrace.

This thread has been eye opening

This seems about the right time to post this.

Hitler was a madman and could have belonged to any political party. Irrelevant

You don't have to be white British to be racist.

@LordPercyPercy

😂

Given that all the major parties have essentially the same manifesto its hard to draw inference on a person from their political leanings.

Yeah Ben Habib is just not the ‘right kind’ of Packistani man .. 🙄🙄🙄

So when a Tory says that disabled people should be sterilised, and your friend votes for them, you would not change your opinion of that friend?

😂😂😂

🤣🤣👍🏻

NRTFT so I don’t know if anyone else has picked up on this but you absolutely can be a racist whilst having friends of different ethnicities. The late, great Benjamin Zephaniah references it in his poem No Problem.

So just because she’s not labour then……ffs

Can you expand on this a little

Haha