should i leave my long term partner

This morning over breakfast I asked my partner who she was voting for

Her response was UKIP

My response was are you **** mental

Even our three year old childs response was are you **** mental

I’m now sat at work worried Iv’e wasted a great deal of my life

Sounds like someone needs a new patio laying…

and labourconservativelibdemgreen parties are a better option?

Why don’t you ask her why, why don’t you ask why her previous party is no longer appealing to her ? It’s up to the other parties to respond which they have so far clearly failed to do effectively.

Of course you should leave her. Your obviously a bad influence on a 3 year old child. And it sounds like she is using her democratic right to voice a (hopefully) protest vote, which is more that at least 60% of the population are going to do. That should be supported…

I dont think i shall be voting for them but Farage and UKIP seem to have got folks engaged , either positively or negatively. The other parties are just bland?……except the BNP of course who are just mad….at least she has an opinion when 60% plus of the country cant be arsed.

If you first find out about your long-term partner’s voting preference on the day of an election, I would say that the discussion of politics is not a major factor in your relationship.

Voting UKIP does not, in itself, make someone a terrible person. If she is actually a tiresome pub bore, a 1950s racist, or someone who prefers to strike a cliched pose when they don’t understand something complicated, those are problems for a relationship, but again, you probably did not find out about them today. 🙂

as a UKIP voter my wife is obliged to vote for whoever I tell her to

@llama 😀 – best post so far on any UKIP related thread

Maybe you could enforce some kind of voluntary ban on your wife voting for parties that you don’t like?

This is why the suffragettes were wrong.

Maybe you could enforce some kind of voluntary ban on your wife voting for parties that you don’t like?

no need i told her the polling station was atop snowdon

Even our three year old childs response was are you **** mental

This is what worries me – your child clearly hasn’t made up its own mind – you have. That’s not how a democracy works.

Good on your partner for having her own opinion.

Both my wife and I voted UKIP this morning so we are totally sympatico.

Even our three year old childs response was are you **** mental

I’d be more concerned about your three year old child using that sort of language, maybe social services should be informed. Of course if your partner has her way then the SS will be disbanded

forzafkawi – Member
Both my wife and I voted UKIP this morning so we are totally sympatico mental.

FTFY

😉

It would be nice to believe that all the UKIP voters were just raising a finger to all the other parties who seem to have nothing to do with anybody outside the S. East and only the fashionable addresses within the S.East but I worry too many might be swivel eyed loons.

llama – Member
as a UKIP voter my wife is obliged to vote for whoever I tell her to

Fantastic!
Sums up your average ukip voter perfectly.

You need to post a pic of her in here before we commit to any decision.. 😉

No one who has anything to do with cycling could possibly vote UKIP, surely?

Telegraph linky

😐

llama – Member

as a UKIP voter my wife is obliged to vote for whoever I tell her to
You let your wife vote? How very modern of you.

bikebouy – Member
You need to post a pic of her in here before we commit to any decision..

Could turn it into a game of “Guess Who”.

I am guessing she’s not this one:

http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1445006851/Wholesale-Sexy-Costume-Sexy-font-b-Burka-b-font-Costume-Black-H39224.jpg

(didn’t post image directly as it is a provocative image of a woman wearing a Burka)

Joking aside, OP I think this needs a sit down and chat with your OH and see if she really does have her eyes fully open.

Yes.
They are a right-wing racist.

APF

My my MrWoppit, top marks!

If it’s a protest vote, I don’t get why people are voting ukip instead of simply spoiling their ballots. It’s a recorded figure, so it’s not wasted. Gah, don’t legitimize these fruitloops because you don’t like some other fruitloops.

And it sounds like she is using her democratic right to voice a (hopefully) protest vote, which is more that at least 60% of the population are going to do. That should be supported…

Exercising a democratic right is to be supported, but that’s not the OP’s point. Is the sort of person who wants to vote UKIP the sort of person you want to spend your life with? The answer for me is no.

bikebouy – Member

My my MrWoppit, top marks!

😯 Please let her know I am a naughty boy.

I’m sure I’m way too late to this thread but surely there is a significant potential that she just doesn’t really understand or care about politics (fair enough) as opposed to she is a massive racist who will be throwing bricks through the windows of the local Romanian population.

If you had no idea about the actual issues involved than I guess Farage might seem the most attractive choice in many ways

My mum voted for Thatcher first time round apparently (despite being a teacher and married to a former miner) because as a staunch feminist she wanted a woman PM.

She soon regretted it though!

The establishment media will mud sling at any independent political organization/party regardless of policy or ideology – I wouldn’t vote UKIP but let’s be clear having concern about immigration policy doesn’t make one racist – UKIP is raising other issues – It calls for the Bank Of England to be audited – Or do you think all this Quantitative Easing is justly credited to we the people? If my partner didn’t defend my right to have a mind of their own I’d consider splitting up – maybe she should leave you …