The Leicester Curry Awards have just announced their first place winner. From over 200 nominations, five finalists were settled on – and Britain’s most ethnically diverse city was left to vote on the best curry in town.
It was a harmless democratic exercise – because there is no racial preference to liking one curry over another. The rhetoric when it comes to national elections, however, is different.
The Remain vote won by a little over two percent of the vote in Leicester, amidst the lowest voter turnout in Leicestershire. It’s a winning percentage not far from the national average – where Leave votes had a three percentage point lead. In Leicester, where Indians alone constitute up to 28 percent of the population – the vote could have swung either way depending on how the Asian constituency felt.
Outside of Leicester, the wind blew a different direction.
After the smoke settled on Brexit, an unexpected demographic turned out to have voted Leave. The ‘British-Asian community’, numbering around three million, had largely voted to ‘Leave’ the European Union.
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