Mark Pritchard: Bigot Is As Bigot Does

...The government could also do more to reduce Britain’s high numbers of migrants and immigrants. Whilst not exclusively, it is invariably Britain’s ethnic minorities, living in crowded urban areas, who often feel the first impact of Britain’s open borders. It is they, along with their white-British working neighbours, who compete for housing, school places, local health services, and a seat on the bus. Government action to extend border controls preventing a new wave of migration from Romania and Bulgaria in 2014 would be as welcomed by Britain’s ethnic minorities as it would by everyone else.

The Party could also shelve its misconceived same-sex marriage plans. Apart from antagonising the Tory grassroots and traditional Conservative voters, Number 10’s decision to press ahead with a Bill is likely to alienate large parts of the very same ethnic and religious groups the Party says it needs to attract to win the next general election. The Bill is self-defeating, divisive, and could inadvertently breed intolerance. To proceed regardless would show the Conservative Party as out of touch with many in the Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu and Christian communities – many of whom are Asian and Afro-Caribbean.

The political thinking in Number 10 might be that any political fallout from the Bill will be conveniently neutralised given Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg also support same-sex marriage. This would be a miscalculation. There is only one Prime Minister, not three, and it is he alone, a Conservative Prime Minister, who will be seen as the chief architect of the Bill. It is the Conservative Party who will reap the political consequences...

Mark Pritchard, a Tory MP - on PoliticsHome - can you see the flaw in his argument?
And here he is on PoliticsHome being a bit racist, presumably in the interest of balance.

Update: 'Dropping Tory support for gay marriage to win the ethnic minority vote would be crass moral relativism' Tom Chivers on Telegraph blogs - yes, the Telegraph.