"It is a huge waste of the next generation's skills, potential and talent and it comes at a huge cost to young black and minority-ethnic people, their families, taxpayers and the economy".
That could involve irregular troops, cyber attacks and inflaming tensions with ethnic Russian minorities in nations seen as part of the country's "near abroad" by Moscow.
The study suggests that in 168 marginal seats, the ethnic minority vote is bigger than the majority of the sitting MP.
"But the electoral reality is that we will not win outright Conservative majorities until we start attracting more of the ethnic vote".
Thus do peaches and nectarines turn into issues involving debt mountains, military no-go zones and historic ethnic rivalries.
The HDP ran on a platform defending the rights of ethnic minorities, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
If Ukraine ends up with a mixture of ethnic fundamentalism and liberal capitalism, with oligarchs pulling the strings, it will be as European as Russia (or Hungary) is today.
Anwar said that if he formed the next government, he would root out corruption and end a system of affirmative action for ethnic Malays, more than half of the 27 million population.
Nationally, just 16% of 18- to 24-year-olds say they are certain to vote in an election and there has been a sharp decline over the past year in registration among black and ethnic minority voters from 77% to 58%, the Hansard Society's audit reveals.
In the key seats that gave the Conservatives power – places such as Telford, Warwickshire North and Bolton West – the reality is that there simply is no significant ethnic minority vote that can be mobilised.
Policymakers and politicians usually embrace this "political blackness" when addressing ethnic minority communities, but it makes as little sense when it comes to predicting voting as it does in other areas of life.
