There are situations that test friendships, and there are those that stretch them beyond breaking point, and if in a friendship that point is passed then they individual has to weigh up the loss of a friend against loss of personal principles. The breaking point varies from friendship to friendship and relationship to relationship (historical example the English and American civil wars where it was know for brother to fight brother). That point could be something as trivial as supporting the wrong football team.

At the other extreme would you expect any friends that Ian Huntly once had to stand by them? Many people find the BNP and what it stands for so odious, that it is the action of standing for the BNP that breaks the friendship. If one person breaks off a relationship because the other had an affair, it is the affair that breaks the relationship.

With regards to gumption, who had more, the victims and survivors of Nazi persecution or the SS/Gestapo.?

Anyway I was going to leave this thread to other folkies at least for tonight.....