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Originally Posted by DiegoArmando
More than half the London electorate don't care.
I disagree, the population as a whole arguably care more about immigration than anything else, and that is deeply entwined with questions of race and religion.
I sense much of the old white public will still have a hard time voting for a Muslim candidates and, crucially, old whites are the most likely demographic to turn out - you are right, well over half don't care, but how likely are they to turn out? Further, a Muslim candidate will be very off putting to both Hindu and Jewish voters, who make up, what, 7% of London?
@Elrazor. Chuka is a black and ethnic minority candidate only in the sense that he is literally a black and ethnic minority candidate (lol, I know how stupid this sounds). He was mostly privately educated and pretty much as establishment as it comes, descending from prominent lawyers on his Mum's side. (To illustrate the point, all of Khan's grandparents were born in Pakistan, one of Umana's is called Sir Helenus Milmo.)
It'll be an interesting race.