Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good
It's an overused quote, but I'm happy you're happy with your police state.
These kind of actions strike me as the natural outcome of a growing central government, the kind that is naturally socialist. If you are busy looking over your citizen's shoulders to make sure they are doing financially OK, it isn't too much to keep looking over their shoulders for other things.
I'd point and laugh more at you UKers, but this is probably ten to twenty years down the line for us.
And welcome back, JAG. ~;p