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I think the difference is that the great majority of immigration to France (certainly ex-EU immigration) has been Islamic, whereas Britain has seen a great deal of immigrants from other places like India’s Hindu and Sikh communities, China, Nigeria’s Igbos and so on. Most black African immigrants to France are from the French-speaking Muslim Sahel, most to Britain are from Christian West Africa and the largely-Christian Caribbean. What you describe has therefore resulted in the same splitting of immigrant communities, but it just happened between groups rather than within them. Muslims (be they black, Arab or South Asian) vote for and join Labour, while Hindus, Jews and Chinese vote for and increasingly join the Conservatives. Black Caribbean voters are still a core Labour constituency, although Christian Africans are more diverse and several prominent Tory MPs including the Home Secretary (interior minister) and business secretary are black African.
In France the conception is therefore more binary. There is a native French bloc, a few largely irrelevant tradcaths and a Muslim bloc, and so Muslims who assimilate essentially ‘become’ French in the Napoleonic way, having abandoned their previous identity largely. In Britain, it’s more multilateral, with the growing number of senior Indian conservatives like Sunak, Patel, Braverman and so on often perceived as more hostile to Muslims and a Labour Party increasingly reliant on both the Muslim vote and the arguably substantially ‘Islamophobic’ native working class.
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