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Saw he was trending on twitter, seems they Tory loving millionaire wants to encourage the minority communities to register to vote.

The pic of him "whiting up" will give me nightmares.

I think everyone should be encouraged to vote, and more more so become informed to make the vote that they feel represents them... I just don't see what a multi-millionaire wannabe Tory politician has in common with your average guy on the street, regardless of colour

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-15/british-stars-help-launch-operation-black-vote/

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I'm a believer in the democratic process. Anything that encourages people to register and vote; anything that encourages people to become politically engaged is a good thing IMO.

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I'm a believer in the democratic process. Anything that encourages people to register and vote; anything that encourages people to become politically engaged is a good thing IMO.

I agree with regards to encouraging people to vote but what the fcuk has it to do with race? With Turnouts at 30-50% for General Elections we need more of the ELECTORATE to vote NOT just ethnic minorities.

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I agree with regards to encouraging people to vote but what the fcuk has it to do with race? With Turnouts at 30-50% for General Elections we need more of the ELECTORATE to vote NOT just ethnic minorities.

I'm going to hazard a guess it's that minorities are disproportionately less likely to vote. Not exactly rocket science.

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I'm going to hazard a guess it's that minorities are disproportionately less likely to vote. Not exactly rocket science.

I'd say with 50-70% of the Electorate not voting the ethnic proportion of those not voting is largely semantic.

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Absolutely, racist as f**k. Turn it round and see how it reads if it was about white people allowing black people to decide the election.

Worse, it implies that we should be voting along the lines of skin colour. It's patronising in particular to black people.

Not surprised to see bigots like Danger supporting this.

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Worse, it implies that we should be voting along the lines of skin colour. It's patronising in particular to black people.

Not surprised to see bigots like Danger supporting this.

It does, horrendous really. Would like to see Campbell's reaction to that being put to him.

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I'm not really getting the racist angle here.

Me neither. Encouraging your community to vote, whatever next?

P.S.

In 2010, ethnic minorities were three times less likely to be registered to vote than white Britons.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timwigmore/100263554/why-dont-more-ethnic-minorities-vote/

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Me neither. Encouraging your community to vote, whatever next?

What's his community? Black people? So is my 'community' white people? Should his community not just be British people, or Londoners, or people in his constituency?

Black people in the UK or coloured to use their term are from many different 'communities' anyway, and as pointed out above he is also insinuating they vote on racial lines rather than for what party or policy they like.

He is also trying to scare coloured people by saying if you don't vote white people will decide the election, why is that a problem? Unless he's racist....

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What's his community? Black people? So is my 'community' white people? Should his community not just be British people, or Londoners, or people in his constituency?

Black people in the UK or coloured to use their term are from many different 'communities' anyway, and as pointed out above he is also insinuating they vote on racial lines rather than for what party or policy they like.

He is also trying to scare coloured people by saying if you don't vote white people will decide the election, why is that a problem? Unless he's racist....

I always thought you were acting a bit weird for a SNP enthusiast. Seems you took "Nationalist" to mean something it doesn't thankfully in Scotland. Ethnic minorities vote in much fewer numbers than the electorate as a whole. In a representative democracy it's important that they do vote, otherwise they won't be properly represented. It ain't rocket science.

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