In our polarised political landscape,it doesn’t take a YouGov poll to tell us that sleeping with the enemy doesn’t make for domestic harmonyNever kissed a Tory and got the T-shirt to prove it? It’s not a garment I have hanging in my own wardrobe – it wouldn’t be true. But then we all make mistakes (and some of them wear chinos).
While some would argue that sleeping with the enemy makes you a political traitor, others believe that it’s useful to know them even in the biblical sense. Shagging someone from the dim side certainly has the capacity to upset your parents, and according to a fresh YouGov survey suggesting that British political party supporters are fitting increasingly entrenched and partisan. The proportion of parents who would be “very upset” whether their offspring married someone of a different political persuasion has more than doubled in eight years,with 28% of Labour supporters saying they would be gloomy whether their son or daughter married a Tory and one in five Tories saying the same of a Labour son- or daughter-in-law.
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Source: theguardian.com