• CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I agree with all that. At the same time, I still think that Rishi would lose an election even without those issues because of his race. A lot of Tories will just stay home, I reckon.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.