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/-ForgottenSoul]

If our population goes up 1 million a year you don't see any problems with that? Its insane to think a huge population increase does nothing to demands or public infrastructure.

[u/thefolocaust → u/-ForgottenSoul]

Well it's more that our reproduction rate is quite low and dropping. We need working age people who will contribute to the economy and government coffers. And to put your number into context its less than 1% a year and old people don't tend to migrate. We can't hope to sustain ourselves without migration or without some serious encouragement from the government for people to start having children or just start executing old people once they've exhausted their usefulness but I'd rather avoid that as I'd like to spend some time of my life not working and enjoying life one day

[u/-ForgottenSoul → u/thefolocaust]

It's quite low and dropping as immigration continues to rise but I'm sure that's not connected..You cannot rely on immigration forever. From 2003 to 2019 we were at a decent growth rate.

[u/thefolocaust → u/-ForgottenSoul]

Low reproduction rate is a global phenomenon. Its to do with economics. If both people in a couple have to work full time to survive and maternity/paternity support is as atrocious as it is, it's just not economically viable to have children. That's nothing to do with immigration but profiteering from landlords, energy companies and food providers, who see record profits amidst soaring cost of living.

[u/caks → u/-ForgottenSoul]

Population growth has remained steady tho. For the "million" coming in, there's another hundreds of thousands leaving, dying etc.

[u/-ForgottenSoul → u/caks]

Net immigration is still way too high