Tories to target the Asian vote.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....eal-Asian-voters.html

/// The Tories are set to copy a strategy, pioneered by the Conservative Party in Canada, where ministers are expected to report which ethnic minority events they have attended each
month ///

Shouldn't our politicians have the issues of all their electorate at heart, instead of pandering to any one specific group?

[Gromit]

// pandering to any one specific group //

It could be argued that they already pander to just one particular group - the white middleclasses. This os just trying to broaden their appeal. Not sure this is anything new, Cameron has been trying to make the party more inclusive since he became leader.

[jackthehat]

I think you'll find that many Asian groups are naturally more conservative (small 'c') in their outlook, in any case.

[rov1100]

They forget that pandering to one group just alienates another. Bradford may be a separate story as Asians outnumber the rest. Leicester is similar. Birmingham and London are going that way. But what keeps the Tories in power are the shire counties and without them they are onto a loss leader. They should stick to their principles!

[FredPuli43]

May I ask what would the Conservative Party have to do to be pandering to your group, aog?

You may be sure that psephologists and campaign strategists identify a group you belong to, as they do for all of us,and the party concerned will tailor its message and strategy to appeal to groups without simultaneously losing votes by alienating others. In the US it may be 'soccer moms' or the Jewish vote or the blue collar black vote or the Hispanic or the Muslim vote which are identified and appealed to by the politicians . Here, we may have different ones, but groups can be identified in both countries, by residence, age, education, income and culture etc being used to narrow them into smaller targets.

Common sense, really.

[naomi24]

//Shouldn't our politicians have the issues of all their electorate at heart, instead of pandering to any one specific group? //

Are they pandering to a specific group? From your newspaper a couple of days ago:

http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml

[andy-hughes]

Yes, but if the can mop up the Muslim vote, the gay vote, and the leftie vote, they will clean up!

(Not sure about that last one though!)