It is certainly relevant.

Cultural ties are a two way street. The "enlightened" agnostic majority are crap at looking after their old, letting the state do it instead, yet those we almost accuse of being drawn into cultural communities consume their own smoke as it were.

Religion has a part to play in the solution and yet religion is a huge part of the problem. But try telling BNP members that St George was a Turk and see how far you get.... Likewise, try telling a joke about the Prophet in front of some.. (I once innocently asked, when on a course about using pictorial inspection reports so service users with learning disabilities could easily understand them, how we would depict the Prophet should it be pertinent to the report? Took me weeks to wriggle out of the issues that raised....

Social mobility and increasing / redistributing wealth is as good an answer as any. Better than the UKIP apologists amongst us can come up with anyway.