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They will stay home because he and the Torys have been monumentally shit for a long time now. If racism was that a big a problem outside the internal Tory party votes for leader (which is a pool of approx. 180k people) then he and other PoC would never get in repeatedly as Tory MPs, either for local selection or local elections.
That’s a fair counter point. But there are different stakes between picking a brown MP and a brown PM. It’s gonna be easier for a brown Tory MP to win in a safe seat as Rishi did as opposed to winning a general election. The UK is still pretty racist.
They will stay home because he and the Torys have been monumentally shit for a long time now. If racism was that a big a problem outside the internal Tory party votes for leader (which is a pool of approx. 180k people) then he and other PoC would never get in repeatedly as Tory MPs, either for local selection or local elections.
That’s a fair counter point. But there are different stakes between picking a brown MP and a brown PM. It’s gonna be easier for a brown Tory MP to win in a safe seat as Rishi did as opposed to winning a general election. The UK is still pretty racist.