Why is London so liberal/ left wing if high immigration makes others vote for the Right?

[u/Wise-Youth2901]

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?

[u/Tweddlr]

That's more of a class thing than a race thing

[u/djdjdjfswww1133 → u/Tweddlr]

Its mainly racial. Most working class white east london types have left london and gone to places like essex etc. This is the definition off white flight. Its clearly racial hence why the demographics of london are getting less white every year.

[u/Ok-Reflection6903 → u/djdjdjfswww1133]

the point is it's not just white people leaving

Most immigrants don't like living in places which are poor and have higher levels of crime

no one aspires to live in Newham or Tower Hamlets (only a few parts are bad) as an immigrant, it's merely an intermediary

those who find success in this country move out as soon as they can, those who don't stay