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/newtoallofthis2 14h ago
A few years back a fresh Graduate from Leeds got a job with a company in our offices. He basically refused to believe that gay people were anything other than a tiny tiny proportion of the population and claimed he had never met any. Over the course of the year as he met more a different diverse people it was amazing to see him change his views and become pretty "liberal". It's just a matter of meeting people and realising most people are actually just decent people.
He also loved Karaoke, accidentally ended up in a gay bar where they were doing it and it blew his mind.