We wanted to see better representation, but when we got it we didn’t use it in the right ways. We should have forced the focus onto politics, economics, how to improve our parent countries, how to ameliorate the concerns of the working classes in Britain, how to address the attainment gap in education, how to break down the ‘Muslim penalty’ in the labour market, how to address domestic violence in pockets of different communities. Instead we lobbied, and then we settled.
