Is this #ToryRacism as ethnic minorities are candidates for ‘hopeless’ seats?
Journalist Michael Crick seems to think so.
He is mentioned in the Independent‘s ‘The View From Westminster’ e-mail newsletter as reporting “that white men are overrepresented in seats the Conservatives hope to hold, while ethnic minority candidates and women have been chosen for unwinnable seats”.
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Of course, it all depends on how we define a “hopeless” seat for the Tories.
But the fact that there are few people from ethnic minorities in the seats they deem winnable is a bit of a giveaway, isn’t it?
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#ToryRacism as ethnic minorities are candidates for ‘hopeless’ seats
Is this #ToryRacism as ethnic minorities are candidates for ‘hopeless’ seats?
Journalist Michael Crick seems to think so.
He is mentioned in the Independent‘s ‘The View From Westminster’ e-mail newsletter as reporting “that white men are overrepresented in seats the Conservatives hope to hold, while ethnic minority candidates and women have been chosen for unwinnable seats”.
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Of course, it all depends on how we define a “hopeless” seat for the Tories.
But the fact that there are few people from ethnic minorities in the seats they deem winnable is a bit of a giveaway, isn’t it?
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