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   On 2026-01-08 1:21 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Jan 8, 2026 at 7:27:38 AM PST, "Rhino"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Nigel Farage's Reform Party - which has led every single one of the last   
   >> 200 (!!) polls - has put forward Laila Cunningham as its candidate for   
   >> Mayor of London and hopes are strong that she will defeat current Mayor   
   >> Sadiq Khan in the next mayoral election, which will be in 2028.   
   >>   
   >> What's interesting about her is that she's a Muslim (like Khan) but a   
   >> much more moderate one who has many Jewish friends and appreciates   
   >> Jewish culture. She deplores the Muslims involved in the rape gangs that   
   >> give moderate Muslims a bad name.   
   >   
   > It's still amazing and disheartening that London can't seem to field any   
   > non-Muslim candidates for mayor anymore.   
   >   
   >   
   They ran one in the 2024 elections and in the 2018 elections (and   
   probably many before). According to a video I saw, the 2018 candidate,   
   Shaun Bailey, made a truly half-hearted effort yet at one point was   
   actually leading in the polls and pundits remarked that he could have   
   won if he'd tried harder. Bailey is black and of Jamaican heritage. The   
   later contestant, Susan Hall, is white. She was also a Conservative but   
   only managed second place against Sadiq Khan; Wikipedia quotes a pundit   
   who said "she was an even worse candidate than Shaun Bailey".   
      
   I think demographics is a huge issue in all of this.   
      
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    From 1997 onwards, London has experienced a drastic change in the   
   composition of the city's population, which has off-set the decline of   
   the population which had been occurring.[citation needed] In 1991, 21.7%   
   of the city was foreign born but by 2011 this had risen to 36.7%.   
      
   In 2011, a historic tipping point occurred with the release of the 2011   
   census, indicating that the White British population, which had before   
   been the majority, was now no longer a majority of London's population,   
   although it remained by far the largest single ethnic group.[8]   
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   I'm surprised the tipping point was only in 2011; Toronto was already   
   majority non-white in the mid-90s. Then again, Canada has been an   
   "immigration country" for longer than the UK.   
      
      
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   Rhino   
      
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