my new boyfriend says he is going to vote BNP

[susia]

that's it really, I was really shocked and went into a bit of a rant. I can't believe someone I've been intimate with and been close to would vote bnp.

I would dump him

I agree with Bronze. I could not be with someone who held those views. Any other political views I could tolerate, but not BNP.

how long have you been with him?

each to their own i guess.....

Yes i'd get rid too.

I second bronze. Either he's stupid or racist - well actually he must be both. Get shot of him.

bin asap

In which case make him your ex-bf asap.

Show him the door.

How long have you been seeing him?

What is he like otherwise? Is there any chance that he is just very ill informed? Perhaps grasping at straws there.

I am afraid that would mean the end of the relationship for me if he truly believed in the BNP policies.

Bin.

Really, don't tolerate that.

Would be a deal breaker for me.

Has he actually read the foul stuff they believe and policies they wish to implement? Because I just can't believe that anyone who has can be in favour of them. It's usually a question of people hearing one point the BNP have made that sounds vaguely reasonable on the surface and not looking any further into it (although that's a stretch too) and judging them entirely on that one thing.

i'm not surprised, wouldn't be surprised if they didn't do well next week either, depressing but lots feel threatened (not me btw!) just see it in everyday life atm

It's not pleasant when people you had previously thought well of come out with stuff like this, is it?

Kind of like opening a beautifully wrapped present only to find a big steaming dog turd in the middle. Disappointing and horrible.

I presume he's now your ex?

I would have to dump him.

Sorry, really couldn't go out with someone right wing. Not that right wing anyway.

I've been with him three months. I am a well educated and liberal woman in my early forties.

He is more working class than me (that makes no difference to me) but I think he feels as he has just lost his job that immigration is to blame...I tried to talk about it to him feeling perhaps he'd been indoctrinated by right wing biased tabloids but he doesn't read the papers.

As distasteful as his opinions are to you (and to me too), he is entitled to them. If they offend you that much, walk away... if you're up for a challenge, try to convert hom to your own point of view!

Any new boyfriend of mine who said he was going to vote for the BNP would very quickly become an ex-boyfriend.

There was a guy I knew who I arranged to go on a few dates with when he came back from Australia and while he was there he joined some BNP sympathising groups on facebook. Needless to say I deleted him and ignored his phone calls when he returned from Australia.

Tbh it would be a deal-breaker for me.

How upsetting. This would be a totally deal breaker for me, I'm afraid. Is he aware they are fascist, racist, holocaust deniers?

I think more than anything he is misinformed but that worries me too. I work in the media - of sorts (press officer in a council)and so am quite politically aware.

Yikes, stupid AND racist. I've done the first (a few times) but never the latter and never the two simultaneously.

to be honest we have been going through all kinds of other problems too. Mainly to do with the fact that we are actually from completely different backgrounds - he is very disciplined and quite controlling, I am as I said liberal and a bit disorganised.

Controlling and a BNP supporter?

Get shot and don't look back.