Unfriending right wing friends

[nondrinker1985]

One of my school mum friends of around 10 years has started sharing loads of Restore Britain/Rupert Lowe posts.

I’m actually really shocked as she’s an Irish immigrant herself.

I’ve unfriended her which is a shame as day to day she’s ok. Also another mum who has been liking and commenting on the Restore Britain posts, they’ll probably tell me they’re not racist but I can’t be arsed calling them out.

And Labour won a general election, and a huge majority, with 33.7% if the vote.

So basically an internment camp. Nice.

the only person I would truly fall out with if I was her friend would be marina purniss. A woman who called people thick if they didn’t vote Labour. Told pensioners they were turkeys voting for Christmas if they didn’t vote Labour. Yet the very first thing Labour did was cancel winter fuel payments. Not one apology has she muttered for the the contempt she spoke to people with.

Oh dear. Are you another triggered lefty? The right-wing have turned up on this thread and not before time. I was genuinely perplexed as to how there could be SO many apparent Labour voters on Mumsnet, when in real life I could count on one hand the number of people I know who voted labour.

I wonder if we should just deport all horrific criminals, no matter what their descent is.

I wonder if you will feel the same way in ten years' time when another generation of people come of age, who despise your culture and think women are chattels.

We can't if they are UK citizens. Others, yes definitely.

At the moment ECHR protection can be ignored but we have recourse to the European Court to challenge this. When we lose that protection women's rights will be further eroded.

We need more people in this country either through immigration or through people having more children. Reform are stirring up huge amounts of anti immigration rhetoric and now are starting on the "improve the birth rate" rhetoric.

I don't really think that your points are valid to the original post. I'm generally in favour of trans rights but I don't want to change in front of a trans woman, and I definitely don't want to be seeing a trans woman change. Neither do I want a trans man in the women's changing room, quite frankly. But given the choice, I'd do that if it meant we kept our NHS. As distasteful as it seems I'd run naked through the streets if it meant we kept our NHS.

And before you come back with "the danger" of transgender people. I'm a late middle aged woman from a working class background. I've lost count of the times I've been sexually assaulted, with at least one experience being attempted rape. Not one of those men even attempted to hide their gender and pretended they were women. Men have been forcing their way into women's only spaces for millennia and have never needed to dress as women to do so. The real problem is men. The vast majority of sexual assaults and rapes are from people we know, people we thought were "safe". Not from transgender people.

I've had to block / unfriend quite a few people on social media over the last few years. It really is quite depressing to discover that someone you know has values which are so diametrically opposed to your own.

What blows my mind is women who say they are worried about misogyny and caring about womens rights having no issues at all with letting endless men into this country who for the main part come from cultures where women are treated appallingly. You are either frighteningly naive or just plain stupid.
Your arguments make zero sense at all.
As if a party like The Green Party, is going to make this country safer for women! Every policy they have will do the exact opposite.

They’ll be better off without you!

Excuse me? The 'boat' people increased massively after Brexit because we lost the right to send back to the place they just arrived. We also lost the fingerprint etc data to make returns quicker.

Brexit was a Conservative thing. The massive increase in 'boat' people was while the Cons were in power. The increase of them in hotels was when the Cons were in power. Processing them went down, all the way to stopping for a while when the Cons were in power. Actual visa controlled immigration went up even more, when the Cons were in power, all the time while the Cons were not reinvesting into our services, NHS, schools, housing, despite nearly a million being allowed in on one of those years.

WTF has 'Liebour' got to do with it?

Well, so far in less than 2 years, Labour increased and almost halved the massive backlog of processing claims left by the Tories. Now looking into ways in changing things to stop the endless appeals made after. They've ceased to allow family of granted asylum seekers to apply to come over immediately and having to apply through normal routes, ie, need to earn set amount of money etc. This helps deter economic migrants. And visa routes have fallen, halved, though to be fair, this was probably caused by the tories changing some of the rules for workers just before they lost power.

Enjoy.

If you don’t vote left, or you’re not a leftie as you put it op, who do you back?

If your BIL came here illegally then yeah I would have issues with that.

I’ve historically been fairly centrist, and politics has never been a huge talking point for me with friends. But over the years, one fascinating trend I’ve noticed is that if I disagree with a more left-wing friend/acquaintance they tend to block me/cut me out, whereas if a disagree with a more right-wing one it doesn’t generally have any noticeable effect. As politics has become much more polarised over the last few years it’s become increasingly apparent.

You’re 💯 correct. It’s also very interesting how they claim Reform is racist yet Reform’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, is a British Muslim. He has also stated his belief that our current immigration levels are unsustainable. This is conveniently swept under the carpet as it doesn’t fit the narrative, though.

Where did I say I vote green?

What are reform doing for women's rights exactly?

Either extremes, left or right are the ones I find.

Most people are centre left or right but do seem to be branching out further and further to more extreme ways of thinking, sadly. Largely because of social media I guess?

Weirdly, I was on twitter for a few years and left because it got so hate filled and nasty, anti-immigrant and vile. So I joined Bluesky, that was so far left, it was equally uncomfortable. Left that too.

Absolutely this. There are frighteningly high numbers of women - including several on here - who would rather be seen as kind and compassionate, than even consider the inevitable outcome of hundreds of thousands of unidentified illegal male immigrants, with no sexual partners, being housed in their own towns.

So? Muslim's account for over half of the worlds religion.
You will get good and bad in all of them, including the British Muslims.

So you think all those hundreds of thousands of men will all rape women?

Excuse me? The 'boat' people increased massively after Brexit because we lost the right to send back to the place they just arrived.

4 Feb 2026
Shabana Mahmood has directly contradicted the Prime Minister’s claim that the Channel migrant crisis is due to Brexit.

The Home Secretary said she ‘doesn’t think it’s true’ that Britain’s departure from the European Union led to small boat crossings, or that it had made it harder to deport migrants.

Ms Mahmood, giving evidence to the Commons’ home affairs select committee, said: ‘I would just dispute whether Dublin actually worked as was intended.

‘I'm sure there's lots of other debates we had about the rights and wrongs of Brexit. ‘But is Brexit responsible for the boats? I don't think that's true.'

Ms Mahmood added that the small boat journeys were ‘a new phenomenon’ and ‘the idea that this has happened because we've lost the access to Dublin and the returns agreement with the EU, I think that's too much of a stretch’.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15527373/Shabana-Mahmood-contradicts-PM-Keir-Starmers-claim-Brexit-blame-small-boats-crisis.html

I fundamentally agree OP. I have friends that spread across the political spectrum, and I am happy to have healthy debate and have my opinions challenged in many ways. Where I draw the line is people supporting a party which cannot even explain how it will achieve its supposed goals (for a start) and that spouts such intolerant and hateful words. The immigration issues aside, their views on women (read: wanting to ban abortion) are abhorrent and have no place in a civilised Western society.

All the people spouting on here that “they’re saying what the other parties won’t say, they’re challenging the views of the normal parties” need to take a 10 minute history lesson in the rise of the Nazi party

Not the daily mail please.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87yqp7eyqdo

Are you male?