Sleeping With The Enemy

[sunny-dave]

[ figuratively speaking ]

Watching the ever more entrenched positions on AB, I was musing about whether it is still possible to have a long term relationship with someone from the opposite end of the political spectrum?

I did have one relationship that lasted quite a while with a card carrying member of the Conservative Party - we just avoided the 'elephant in the room' and got along well enough - and the beer in the Con Club was pretty good too.

But that was back in pre-Thatcher days and I think the world has become a lot more polarised since then - I think once any element of out and out lust had subsided, political allegiance might be more of a problem these days?

[Old_Geezer]

Yes, of course. No one is perfect, and political leanings are not the whole person.

[hereIam]

I dated a bloke for six years back in the day, he was true blue tory and I was labour, we had the odd spat about politics, but it never came between us to any great extent. We finished cos he cheated on me - the rat !!!

[Jackdaw33]

40 years ago a local Labour councillor and twice mayor only drank in the local Con club. I got on well with him and he did me a few favours. I used to vote Labour when he was up for election.

[woofgang]

Personally I don't think I could. So much of what drives my political choices is based on my moral and ethical stance and I can't imagine how it would be possible to agree with someone morally and ethically and have diametrically opposed political opinions.

[Cloverjo]

Although my OH comes from a staunchly Labour family he now votes Tory. I vote Labour. We try not to discuss politics, but around election times he always tries to persuade me to change. I'm not going to.

[wolf63]

I plan to follow the PickandMix party. This new party plans to amalgamate all the sensible stuff from each of the main parties.

They will decide on many policies on 'is this morally okay' basis.

No decisions on any subject will be made until all the facts are known.

I have run out of steam now - and Princess Merlin is doing my head in meowing in my ear.

[kvalidir]

My first love was a Conservative ( shudder lol) , albeit not a very right wing one. He was very pro EU, totally unracist, unclassist and a generally lovely kind chap, but very much a capitalist (owing to his upbringing and financial situation). Neither he nor I ever had an issue with our political positions, since hopefully neither of us was the dodgy extreme of either left or right wing, however some of his friends abjectly loathed me, and I them, so that might have caused some tension had we let it. As it is we're still eternally firm friends and will ever thus be.

[-Talbot-]

The wife is a red rosette on a donkey voter.
I wouldn't vote for the ass currently in charge of Labour.

[sunny-dave]

I think the actual voting is the least important thing, in some ways.

At local level, I've voted for just about every party going - I try to keep the colour of the rosette to one side and vote for the person most likely to do a good job - less easy to do at national level where we have almost moved to a Presidential style of electioneering.

It's more about fundamental philosophies - and even then I've known some real [expletive deleted] on 'my' side and some throughly decent people from the other.

[Peter Pedant]

well it depends
in the thirties - 'everyone was either a communist or fascist dahling' - and at the young 'uns poss ups - South African sherry might be served if you didnt like Franco's muck.

and people still had babies if you get my meaning

talk about non PC parties
The Vicar of Stiffkey was defrocked after he was found consorting with prostitutes ( 1936 ) - he said he was misunderstood and was converting them but he was sunk by a photograph of himself and a nude thirteen year old whcih was produced at his trial.
and the bright young things would have 'Vicars and Tarts' parties - come appropriately dressed!

[Peter Pedant]

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/10/285x214/356253_1.jpg

the vicar's demise? - oh he was eaten by a lion
see wiki

[Peter Pedant]

Oh you were talking about Voting
I thought you were on about Knocking ...

[Prudie]

My first boyfriend (from 6th form) was an absolute Marxist, despised Churchill, despised Thatcher, despised the Establishment. He'd say good when he heard of a soldier killed in NI. It was first love so I was blind but I couldn't tolerate those opinions now.

[tonyav]

despised Thatcher

Oh I dunno, Prudie. Doesn't sound all bad to me.

[Prudie]

:-) Tony. It didn't go well round the dinner table with my parents I can tell you!

[vetuste_ennemi]

Woofgang @ 16:08: ​//So much of what drives my political choices is based on my moral and ethical stance and I can't imagine how it would be possible to agree with someone morally and ethically and have diametrically opposed political opinions.//

But your political "choice" will be based on what you judge to be the best (if I may use that word as shorthand), Woofgang. Economic and social policy, for instance, aren't simple good/bad, right/wrong equations. Two people can be equally concerned about what's best for their country, but take different sides on, say, the Brexit issue?

[tonyav]

:-) Tony. It didn't go well round the dinner table with my parents I can tell you!

LOL, was it don't bring him here again ?.