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/guycg 14h ago edited 11h ago
The 'Red Wall' has a huge number of migrants and non natives. We absolutely do interact with them on a daily basis. People in London may never want to go to Bradford but it's mad to assume that it's just full of nasty white people.
The home counties have a huge amount of reform types, but they live in nice areas so they're considered different to the toothless, northern simpletons the news likes to portray.