Hope this “conservatives do well; better than expected” trend manages to spread to our side of the pond for 2016.”

Careful what you wish for. Britain’s Cameron is too close to the Boehner/McConnell/Bush ilk. Like the Georges W. and H.W. Bush (or Nixon), they slightly delay the leftists’ destruction but never make a case for conservative principles (as pragmatists they wouldn’t know a principle if they sat on one). In fact, they often deliver the lamb, bound with the cords of compromise, straight into the jaws of the collectivists, who know just how to cash in on “compassionate conservatism.”

Undoubtedly, that is one argument advanced by both the Labour and Conservative parties as proof that any concern with Islamization is motivated by Islamophobia.

British Muslims make up just under 5% of the overall UK population, half of whom are eligible to vote in May’s general election.

Historically British Muslims have tended to vote for the Labour party. However According to experts, there is a lack of reliable and accurate research about voting patterns among Muslim voters in the UK. many existing studies about Muslim voters used unreliable methodology

Nick Spencer, a researcher at the religious think tankTheos, said “it was unlikely that voters used religious belief to determine their choice of candidate.”

As G6loq’s Cameron quote makes clear, the Conservative party is deluded.

A suicide by a slow-acting, fatal poison for which there is no cure or antidote has the same final result as putting a gun to one’s head and pulling the trigger.

22 December 2010:
“A survey of 600 Muslim students at 30 universities throughout Britain found that 32 per cent of Muslim respondents believed killing in the name of religion is justified.

A U.S. diplomatic cable from January 2009 quoted a poll by the Centre for Social Cohesion as saying 54 per cent wanted a Muslim party to represent their world view in Parliament and 40 per cent want Muslims in the UK to be under Sharia law.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340599/WikiLeaks-1-3-British-Muslim-students-killing-Islam-40-want-Sharia-law.html#ixzz3ZZV9Uzzh

BBC Radio (2015): 45% of British Muslims agree* that clerics preaching violence against the West represent “mainstream Islam”.
http://comres.co.uk/polls/bbc-radio-4-today-muslim-poll/

* that is, are willing to admit it, as with the twin Islamic doctrines of taqiyya and muruna, the actual percentage of Muslims who know it to be true but won’t admit it, has to be higher.

Polls show that a greater percentage of Muslims in the UK are ‘radicalized’ than in America. So if; “According to a scholarly survey conducted by David Yerushalmi and Mordechai Kedar for The Middle East Quarterly, approximately 80% of American mosques feature texts advocating diverse forms of violence “in the pursuit of a Shari’a based political order or advocating violent jihad as a duty that should be of paramount importance to a Muslim.” David Solway

… then how much more do mosques in the UK “feature texts advocating diverse forms of violence “in the pursuit of a Shari’a based political order or advocating violent jihad as a duty that should be of paramount importance to a Muslim.”?

It is my contention that as Muslim populations increase they become ever more doctrinal and they do so because the ‘radicals’ hold Islam’s theological ‘high-ground’. Thus, the Muslim moderates have no theological basis upon which to resist the ‘radicals’ faithful understanding of Islam.

A distinction without a difference.

I agree that the British Conservative Party is hardly conservative any more. But it’s certainly more conservative than Labor.