I am a fully paid up member and supporter of a political party. DH isn’t a member but he is a supporter - we have had many discussions about politics where he has always demonstrated great support for this party, including recording tv interviews with the leader so he can watch them back if he’s at work etc.
Yesterday we went out for lunch with his son who gets on to politics and starts tearing into this party (absolutely fine with this btw) - what got me is DH started joining in agreeing with him, taking the piss out of the leader and agreeing that they are a terrible party and when his son said “I can’t understand anyone who votes for them” DH said “neither can I”!!!
Now, I wasn’t going to get involved but the two faced behaviour was just too much - so I said “but YOU voted for them at the last GE, and the local elections … “ his son burst out laughing - DH looked embarrassed and muttered “no I didn’t!”. I said “well, you told me you did?” He replied “ha well I was joking, of course I didn’t vote for them”.
So I said “oh, ok … weird thing to joke about … but were you also joking last night when you were rewatching (leader) making a speech and going on about how brilliant they were?”
his son said “oh dad, surely not?” DH looked pissed off and said “I wasn’t even watching it, I was on my phone” 🙄 right
I left it there but when we got home I confronted him on it and he said “at least I’m not an actual member like you!” … but I never claimed not to like them!!! 😂😂 he’s now pissed off that I embarrassed him but I don’t think I did anything wrong?? He’s either been lying to me for years or lying to his son? Was I supposed to just sit there quietly whilst he waffled on with what I knew to be a load of bullshit?