[fuzzylogic]

boy - first, I’d argue this validates my point - both parties are pandering to them, just in different locations.

Second, you don’t believe Muslims behave as a block? OK, given your spelling I know you’re from the UK, I’d suggest you believe that because of what is “widely reported”. Which is lies, every day. I’d suggest you wake up - Muslims group together *everywhere*. To not know this is very surprising to hear from a Freeper. Sorry, I can’t wrap my head around not understanding Islam, Sharia, and how Muslims are commanded to force everyone (the world) to submit to Islam; convert, pay the jizya, or die - those are your options.

If you don’t believe they behave as a block you must be listening to the BBC or something.

[Winniesboy]

Yes, I am indeed British and have observed the society around me for more decades that I care to acknowledge. And when I observe the nature of Islam in Britain I see people from a wide variety of national and cultural backgrounds, and every conceivable muslim sect (of which there are many, some of which are bitterly mutually hostile). I also observe an equally wide variety of social and individual bahaviours (and you did use the verb behave not believe).

Politically, many come from social conservative backgrounds (Islam is itself socially conservative in many ways), and the first generation of Muslim immigrants in the 1960s/70s, who came predominantly from the former British India, seem to have felt most at home with the Conservative Party, and tended to vote that way - the older generation still does. But in recent elections (particularly 2017) there's been a significant swing to Labour. Neither is the result of the parties 'pandering' to Islam - indeed muslims were scarcely noticed politically until the later 1990s.