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What kind of nanny state are they running in the UK now? Just surrender your freedom guys. It doesn"t end here.
They screwed the pooch pretty hard with Brexit, seems like they would have turned left.
But, I'm American, so we're in a worse boat, and I can't talk.
Not British but it I'm pretty sure Labour is in power right now which should be centre-left but the party has sort of bait-and-switched everyone into a right wing party
Labour has been kinda authoritarian for quite some time.
Woah, I can't believe that the party the jumped head first into Iraq with the US turned out to be complete shit the next time they had power
Fake incest porn is banned, not beastiality.
I lived in Britain during the period leading to and after the Leave Referendum and, IMHO, Brexit was the consequence of amongst other things a very strong strain of prejudice and delusions of grandeur in British (especially English) society, rather than the cause.
The ill adjusted to the XXI century society and power structures were what caused Brexit, not the other way around.
Pretty soon you’re gonna get fined if she calls you daddy
Now that, I'm actually for. It's so cringe.
I like calling her daddy.
Progressive porn
fortunately, your cringe is my kink
The UK is somewhere in between most of Europe and the US when it comes to moralism.
In most of Continental Europe "if you're not harming anybody, we don't care", but Britain's period of increasing moral openness just lasted 3 decades with only enough steam to make same sex marriage legal, and then stopped and turned weirdly transphobic. Further, the moralistic vein of their society never really stopped, it's just that for some limited domains (pretty much just homosexuality) it's unfashionable for the middle class to be openly moralistic, but just about any other sexual behavior which isn't common will get criticized even in newspapers, often by the very upper middle class people who call themselves "liberal" because they're non-judgemental about homosexuality.
Having live in Britain as well as in Northern and Southern Europe, British society stands out for be more judgemental, prejudiced and moralistic that even Southern Europe (which far less moralistic today than 4 decades ago and unlike Britain isn't ultra selective about the things it's non-judgemental about).