Black Britain Decides on Boris

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Last night was the Black Britain Decides Mayoral Hustings put on by "a coalition of Black leaders including Church leaders, business leaders, activists, faith groups". It used the hashtag #blackbritaindecides. I wanted to assess the audience reaction to Boris. So I scraped all the tweets that mentioned #blackbritaindecides and Boris there were 474. So there was certainly reaction to him. As you can see above it was mainly negative. Indeed this is the highest negative reaction on any of the polls I've done.

One of the things that hold Boris back in the election is his relationship with London's Black community. I don't think it's ever been that great. That won't have been helped by only mentioning Blacks in the crime section of his new manifesto. This is an error on Boris's part. If he could bring at least a decent chunk of Black votes over to his side he'd walk the election.

#blackbritaindecides Boris Sentiment Figures

  Sentiment Percent
1  Positive      11
2   Neutral      31
3  Negative      57

Adds up to 99% due to rounding.