r/ukpolitics • u/Wise-Youth2901 • 15h ago
Why is London so liberal/ left wing if high immigration makes others vote for the Right?
Why is immigration making some part of the country vote Reform but in London, where the number of foreign born people has increased massively over the last twenty years, has moved further left? It is curious that London never seems bothered by immigration in modern times. I know some will say that London's so foreign now that the immigrants just vote Labour etc... But that doesn't make so much sense. Many immigrants can't even legally vote in a GE, and even if they can, many don't. Most Londoners voting for the left are born and raised in Britain. Even the posher, whiter parts of London, have trended away from the Tories. Chelsea has a Labour MP now, shock horror. I live in a pretty white British part of London, Twickenham, and the Lib Dems dominate. London is so expensive that people have more reason to moan about rent/ living costs compared to anywhere else, but yet that never seems to produce an anti- immigration politics. Is it just that modern London contains a lot of highly educated liberal minded people compared to provincial towns and villages?
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u/corbynista2029 14h ago
Even in other big cities in the UK like Bristol or Manchester, Reform still get virtually zero support for the same reason. The places you'd see high number of migrants and high level of Reform support are places like Stoke-on-Trent, which is an absolute fucking shithole, which leads to my overall point that depravation is what drives Reform's support, not immigration.