I'm upset by my troubled mother-in-law's extreme views

I've had a terrible run in with my mother-in-law and don't know what to do about it.

- Annalisa Barbieri

I'm married to her only son, whom she dotes on. We had reached a point where we got on, but our relationship has always been strained. I feel as though whoever married her son would never be good enough.

Having grown up in eastern Europe, she came to the UK in the 1980s having met and married my father-in-law in her home country. She has been deeply unhappy here and in her marriage. She seems to hate anything "British".

She has started watching rightwing news and has a deep mistrust of any mainstream media. She regularly sends out petitions for her family members to sign. My husband and her daughters ignore these. Friends of hers who have engaged or pushed back end up in huge arguments with her. She is unreasonable and always turns it round so that she is the "victim". I feel she should be pulled up on her opinions and that ignoring them almost reinforces her as being correct.