by Chris Bayliss, The CriticThe British individualistic tradition has served us well. How could a party that was promising some of the most radically permissive social policies around gain such a strong foothold among a deeply religious minority group with an austere approach to individual morality? The most plausible answer to this was that Britain’s South Asian Muslims regarded themselves as immune to the social effects of the Greens’ policies on things such as drug use and transgenderism. But the various strands of his narrative were wrapped around Ehsan’s one consistent point that he has made in many articles and essays in the past. This point is that British conservatives ought to identify inspiration in Islamic social customs; specifically those of the predominantly South Asian Muslim populations present in Britain.