Actually what he said, and you missed out, was "that in 1997 we had our 1st muslim MP, 2 in 2002, 5 in 2005, we should have 8 in 2009/10 and hopefully 16 in 2014..........AT THIS RATE the whole parliment will be muslim"
"AT THIS RATE" is the key phrase....it's a joke, he is just playing on the fact that muslims have at last begun to enter politics as MP's and have done so at an exponential rate(as in quadrupled to the giddy heights of 4, and set to rise to maybe 16 in 2014) over the past 10 yrs.
Actually what he said, and you missed out, was "that in 1997 we had our 1st muslim MP, 2 in 2002, 5 in 2005, we should have 8 in 2009/10 and hopefully 16 in 2014..........AT THIS RATE the whole parliment will be muslim"
"AT THIS RATE" is the key phrase....it's a joke, he is just playing on the fact that muslims have at last begun to enter politics as MP's and have done so at an exponential rate(as in quadrupled to the giddy heights of 4, and set to rise to maybe 16 in 2014) over the past 10 yrs.
PS the muslim population of the UK is about 3%