A MUM has been branded “controlling” and “pathetic” after threatening to divorce her husband – because he voted for the Tories.
Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to a landslide victory in yesterday’s General Election, but one Mumsnet user was far from impressed by her husband’s decision to back him.
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Posting as SafferUpNorth just after midnight, she said: “Am I being unreasonable to want to divorce my DH (dear husband) over general election?
“Feeling sick to the stomach at the predicted result. Have always assumed DH and I were roughly on the same page politically, but turns out he voted Tory ‘because it’s best for the economy’ (WTF).
“Just had a massive row… I actually cannot get him to acknowledge that by all indicators child poverty and food bank use have skyrocketed under the Tories and things will get even bleaker when the UK ‘gets Brexit done’.
“And let’s not even mention climate change. I am terrified and DH thinks it’s a great result. Is this where we part ways??”
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And she’s been slammed by her fellow mums, who wrote: “Pathetic. Grow up.”
One asked: “Is he not allowed a different opinion to you? Have you always been so controlling?”
While a second said: “Don’t be so silly, OP. Your poor DH, being bullied by you over an election result. He’s not personally responsible, you know.”
And a third commented: “People vote Tory because they do think it’s best for the country, not just themselves. So you are being unreasonable. But most labour voters are!”
Another mum said: “Ridiculous. I’d be throwing you out if you were trying to enforce your opinions on me.
“He is entitled to an opinion, even if you disagree. Completely unfair, but do him a favour and dump him, so he doesn’t have to put up with this s***.”
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Another baffled mum said: “I don’t understand why, if politics is so important to you that you’d end a marriage over it, that you’ve never discussed it before.
“DH and I rarely vote the same but I know our values align. We just disagree with the best way to achieve our ends.
“Anyway, you don’t get any brownie points or woke cookies for ending a marriage over a vote…well, not on here. Go to Twitter. They’ll love you.”
Although some mums admitted they had voted Labour, and would be “livid” at their partners doing otherwise, most agreed it was silly to bring up divorce.
One wrote: “DH and I frequently vote differently… I don’t want to live in an echo chamber. I don’t hate people for holding mainstream opinions”.
Earlier this week, a clueless mum named her sons Ronnie and Reggie without realising she had copied notorious gangster Kray twins.
