This is a vent.
I am getting annoyed at my partner turning every conversation political. He watches too much news. Sky, BBC and GB News to get the full story from all perspectives. Reads Daily Mail, Telegraph and Guardian. Follows Tommy Robinson and Owen Jones.
We go for a lovely walk on the beach with windmills in the background. It becomes about how the UK pays the most for energy, net zero 2030 is unrealistic, and Germany is bringing back nuclear power.
I mention that I am rewatching The Crown. That turns into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Epstein, Mandelson and the Labour Party.
He is going to a meeting in a town I have never visited. I say I could come with him and just walk around town. That becomes about high streets being ruined, industry taken away, and towns becoming derelict.
I mention my friend coming to the UK on Erasmus. Then it is about how ridiculous it was to rejoin Erasmus because it costs so much, British student uptake on Turing was much higher, and the money should be used for that instead.
We work in local government and the NHS, so you can only imagine how much material there is.
I am getting tired of it. I do watch the news, but I do not know the details of climate plans well enough to debate them. And when I do have an opinion, putting it into the middle of a rant is pointless. Most importantly, sometimes I am just sharing my day without thinking that the PM’s incompetence is the reason my meeting went badly.
He does sometimes notice that I have not said anything. Sometimes I get annoyed and say something completely ridiculous like yes, let’s put them all in a queue and shoot them, and while we are at it let’s murder all the women and make the children watch. That usually stops it for about a minute.
And the thing is that he isn't the only one. I've noticed this from other people in social gatherings. Everything turns into politics. Sometimes on a saturday night I just want to talk about our lives and light things.
End of rant.