Tory minister says party is performing appallingly among ethnic minorities

A Conservative minister has admitted his party is performing "appallingly" among minority ethnic voters who he says are "completely disengaged" from the party...

The policing minister Damian Green told a Tory Reform Group conference that the party could have won a majority of up to 70 at the last general election if black and Asian voters had supported it on the same scale as "Anglo-Saxon whites".

The unusually forthright comments, a recording of which has been obtained by the Guardian, demonstrate the growing concerns among Conservatives, particularly among One Nation Tories, at their failure to win over minority ethnic people whose votes have become crucial to winning marginal seats in large towns and cities.

"We all know that there are people and groups in this country who have become completely disengaged with the Conservative party – we do appallingly among any ethnic minority group," Green told the meeting, held last Sunday at the Royal Overseas League in central London.

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/13/tory-minister-damian-green-ethnic-minorities

Three comments: (1) he could stop at 'we do appallingly'!; (2) why would ethnic minority voters want to vote for a party that treats them like dirt?; (3) the Tories can woo UKIP OR woo the ethnic minority vote but they definitely can't do both!