Alternate realities.

Not from me or my former comrades it isnt. Perhaps you are mistaking me for a Starmerite soft thatcherite, extremist liberal identity politics type. Affluent middle class liberals who read the Guardian are the types you are thinking of, not struggling working class socialist champions of the working classes like me. Be certain about who you are talking about. And who you are not. I am not the one obsessing about such issues. It does seem to be the right who want to make this into some sort of culture war, mostly because it plays well to their elderly Tory base, so well represented on this very forum.

I get so bored with this Leftist argument that "they're not ALL like this". Of course not. But there are generalisations that can be made about various groups of people. For example 90% of terrorism is perpetrated by muslims. That indicates to me that there is something about their ideology that encourages terrorism - and if you've ever bothered to read the Koran you'll see the reason for their addiction to terrorism. It's not bigotry - it's called science. Science looks for correlations and when it finds them it tries to work out why. And the reason in this case is that the Koran tells the muslims to "kill the Kuffar wherever you find them".  

If you're waiting for ALL terrorism to be committed by muslims and ALL muslims to be terrorists, that will of course never happen. The question for you is how extreme does the correlation have to be before you start to understand that these are dangerous people.

Back in the 1990's and early 2000's a sort of cultural relativism existed in politics in which extremists were not confronted, because of ethnicity and cultural issues.
There was a profound fear of being accused of racism.

And that created a culture of cowardice in which young girls were raped and also mentally abused and also a culture in which terrorists started to appear under our noses.

All it takes is one determined Islamist being let off, for quite a lot of people to be injured or killed.

What is being done about extremism in schools?
There were riots on British streets in 2001 and Labour said at the time they would change things.
What did they change? They did nothing to confront the Islamists at all. 

It wasn't until the 2010s that Anjem Choudary got banged up, and even the Tories have let him out again!

We're governed by cowards.
All my adult life we have been.

Bollocks. You just make a fool of yourself with your posts. I'm just looking at the facts rather than what the BBC tell you.

The facts are that the people voted to leave the EU and, despite huge attempts from Parliament (and the Speaker and our courts) to prevent this happening Boris delivered.

Since that time there has been absolutely nothing done take advantage of leaving the EU. Remember we were going to get rid of all the EU rules/laws and slash Corporation Tax etc. But Boris was prevented from doing that because neither of his chancellors (Javid and Sunak) agreed to to do it - and they had a lot of support from remainers in the Tory party. Instead various "bodies" mounted a campaign to remove Boris. The fact is that Boris wanted to pursue policies that the EU did not like. So he had to go. The chosen method was to mount a dirty tricks campaign - Partygate, Pinchergate etc. But none of these were actually based on fact. The police issued only one FPN against Boris (and Sunak) which was plainly a stitch up. But the BBC ran it at the top of their news for over a year.

If that doesn't strike you as a bit fishy then consider what happened after Boris was forced out. Liz Truss won the election for next leader. This was NOT meant to happen. Sunak was the EU candidate. And, even worse, Truss was not going to mess about. She had a policy of "growth, growth, growth" and she was intent on slashing Corporation tax to 15% and opening up trade with her first budget. This is EXACTLY what the EU fears.

The budget was actually received very well initially - until the pro-EU campaign moved in. I could explain what happened in detail but I don't think you know enough about finance to understand. Basically Sunak and his friends in the Treasury destabilised Sterling by predictions of unfunded tax cuts (which were no more than SUnak has done) and very high interest rates (which were always going to happen anyway) and the BoE decided to sell gilts into a saturated market. The BOE had absolutely no reason to do this (because it's all QE that can be held off-balance sheet for as long as they like) but they knew that it would precipitate a bond market crash. 

So the pro-EU forces had destroyed Truss's budget by removing the confidence of financial markets. Then the people who actually run the Tory party (whoever they are) and the darker forces that smear politicians attacked Truss (and her husband) with nasty stories, just like they did to Boris (and just as IDS said they did to him when he was leader of the party) and she quit. The Tory "high-ups" then set up a new election for leader that was designed to return ONLY one candidate. The understanding is that the Tory MPs have to return 2 candidates (so that the Tory membership can choose between the two) but they knew that if they returned Sunak and a donkey the donkey would win (quite rightly). So they set the bar so high that only Sunak went through - and Sunak apparently made a lot of promises to Braverman to get her support and backers so that he had more votes than Boris.

So SUnak won. And we now have the situation where Sunak has given the EU Northern Ireland - which is what they always said was the price of the UK leaving the EU - and no EU laws have been repealed despite pledges to do this and we've RAISED CT - which is all exactly what the EU wanted. Now isn't that a great BIG FUCKING COINCIDENCE. 

You need to wake up SRB and start trying to understand what's obviously going on here. You have a lot of studying to do.        

But you seem to be trying to imply that most Muslims are terrorists which is bigoted nonsense. There is nothing scientific about it.

And most holy books contain dubious utterings. The bible for example thinks you should be killed just for calling your dad a twat, that you should be severely beaten for working on the sabbath, and that if the daughter of a priest becomes a prostitute she should be thrown alive into a furnace. Slaves are directed to obey their masters - which Christians in former time used to justify slavery. And so called witches and supposed heretics have been burned alive or otherwise murdered in the name of God.

You see, religion itself isnt really the problem. It is the way evil people interpret it. Because both Koran and Bible have good bits and bad bits, which is generally why good Christians and Muslims do not believe in every literal word of it.

And the Muslim caliphates were highly tolerant of other religions at a time when Christians were murdering each other over the slightest doctrinal differences. And until recent times Jewish minorities were far more persecuted in Christian countries than Muslim ones. Muslim hatred of Jews is a relatively modern phenomenon and is politically driven by the events in the former Palestine, with religion just used to justify it as bad actors will use anything convenient to justify their actions.

And whilst throughout most of their history, Muslims were much more tolerant of others than Christians, more recently extremist interpretations of Islam used as a justification for evil appears to have arisen as a reaction to western dominance.

But again religion is the excuse for evil, not the cause of it. But the Islamophobes will never recognise that. They are reluctant to evin recognise their own Islamophobia even as they express it.

Lets gets things straight. We on the left support the rights of minorities, including trans people. I do. But we do not all obsess about it as some might and many of you on the right often do. Because what I suspect is probably going on is the usual elitist tactic of ratcheting up anger against powerless minorities as a deflection tactic away from those who are really most culpable for everything that is going wrong in Britain today. And you right wing robots can be guaranteed to fall in and cheerlead. In that sense it is a deliberately confected culture war, a problem whipped up out of all proportion to its miniscule scale to deflect anger onto target groups and away from the ruling elites. 

A lot of this seems to be going on in your head rather than in reality. You suspect people are doing x or y, while in reality they are merely in disagreement with someone intending to do something. In contrast to the things in your imagination, the left is talking about and implementing actual real-world enforcement (as a described), but try as anyone might, a kind of giant semantic blind spot protects you from ever addressing this fact in the conversation. Instead we repeatedly take a walk through a fairy tale.