Totalitarian Britain

Did anybody see this post on the Adam Smith Institute’s blog?

David Cameron has stressed the need for a cultural change in Britain, and indicated how big a task this will be. Nowhere is this needed more than in officialdom. A report yesterday told how a 67 year-old grandfather was arrested for using one swear word to a council official. Six days after the incident, police staged a dawn raid on his home at 5.35am, made him dress, took him to the station, held him in a windowless cell for 6 hours, took his fingerprints and DNA, and fined him an £80 fixed penalty.

Scary stuff.

I see your arrested-for-swearing and raise you a fined-for-feeding-the-ducks.