Baroness Warsi warns Tories over attracting ethnic minorities

[LeftishBrit]

Former Conservative chairman Baroness Warsi says her party will not win the next election unless it does more to attract ethnic minority voters.

She resigned as a government minister over the UK's policy on Gaza last week but has now broadened her criticisms.


...The Conservatives won a 36% share of the vote at the last election, but gained the support of just 16% of ethnic minority voters.

Rejecting criticisms that she was not up to her job, Lady Warsi said she was a "brown, working-class woman from the North. People have been telling me I'm not good enough since the day I was born"....



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28730274


(She only just noticed all this?! Still, it will cause Cameron et al headaches not long before the election; and that's a good thing. P.S. neither she nor practically anyone in the Cabinet was up to their job!)

[Jeneral2885]

1. uh....

how much of an impact do such minorities have on general elections?

[T_i_B]

2. This may be a statement of the obvious...

...but ethnic minorities are a large part of the population in many seats, sometimes even affluent seats the Tories need to win.

I loathe this idea that because somebody doesn't fit in with a political parties model of a target voter, that person should be ignored.