To insist the merits of the BNP is off-topic in my house

[notsomebigotedwoman]

My dad's been here for lunch today & the conversation went something like this:

Him: I think your brother is going to vote BNP.

Me: Oh, no

Him: The candidate is very well-qualified (lists CV)

Me: Just shows that bigotry comes in from all professions then.

The conversation then went on with my dad quoting all sorts of anecdotal "evidence" to support the BNP's stance & me countering it before saying "I don't want to continue this conversation".

Dad then became very huffy and tried to continue the argument - asking why I wouldn't even debate it with him.

I told him, my house, I didn't want to talk about it & if he wanted to continue he could go home.

He almost did, but I think the lure of my Yorkshire puds won him around (& I gave him a cuddle and said it was stupid to fall out over politics).

The daft thing is, neither my dad nor my brother live somewhere where immigration is any sort of any issue - you barely see a non-white face there - although there is high unemployment because a lot of people are too incapable of being employed (lots of families third generation unemployed for eg).

AIBU?

[TheFirstLady]

In polite society, neither politics nor religion are discussed at the dinner table.
So YANBU.
Interesting isn't it, though, how the BNP are picking up votes in places where nobody has any real personal experience of immigration. I'm sure someone must have come up with an explanation, but it baffles me.