The Nanny State in the UK has reached a ludicrous new level
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We know that the UK is a poster child for a nanny state controlling everything they can think of, but this one takes the cake. Is nothing in the UK sacred? Is there any freedom left in the UK??????
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I wonder if they are going to pixelate the offending images like they do in Japan.
Big Government and other problems in the US doesn't change the UK nanny state. You can't defend the UK nanny state by saying the US also has a nanny state. That's a useless argument.
The UK Nanny State???, last time I looked you could go in to a pub in the UK and buy a pint of beer at 18 years old rather than 21, and you can still watch all this type of pornography the only restrictions being on pornography actually made in the UK rather than what you can watch on the internet.
In terms of smoking, the UK laws are not that dissimilar to other countries including the US, whilst parts of the US has banned certain types of fats including trans-fats in order to try to tackle obesity. There are also according to more recent data just as many CCTV cameras in the US as the UK and guns are legal in the UK, indeed there is a thriving hunting and shooting industry bringing in billions of pounds. So why you seem to believe the UK is any worse than the US is beyond me.
If anything a lack of responsibility and accountability has allowed countries like the US to decline, as no one dare tackle the big corporations who have made our food so unhealthy and encouraged obesity. The same corporations avoid taxes by opening Headquarters overseas, whilst the rest of us have to pay our taxes. If trying to encourage better health and trying to improve peoples quality of life and indeed society is now known as the 'Nanny State' then I am all for it.
The UK Nanny State???, last time I looked you could go in to a pub in the UK and buy a pint of beer at 18 years old rather than 21, and you can still watch all this type of pornography the only restrictions being on pornography actually made in the UK rather than what you can watch on the internet.
In terms of smoking, the UK laws are not that dissimilar to other countries including the US, whilst parts of the US has banned certain types of fats including trans-fats in order to try to tackle obesity. There are also according to more recent data just as many CCTV cameras in the US as the UK and guns are legal in the UK, indeed there is a thriving hunting and shooting industry bringing in billions of pounds. So why you seem to believe the UK is any worse than the US is beyond me.
If anything a lack of responsibility and accountability has allowed countries like the US to decline, as no one dare tackle the big corporations who have made our food so unhealthy and encouraged obesity. The same corporations avoid taxes by opening Headquarters overseas, whilst the rest of us have to pay our taxes. If trying to encourage better health and trying to improve peoples quality of life and indeed society is now known as the 'Nanny State' then I am all for it.
Relax Bamford; they know and are fully aware of the incongruity of their position as it applies to them living within a Nanny State of the first order.
Everything from EBT cards to the silly, kiddie named Patriot Act gets under their skin to the extent that growing up with the constant indoctrination of being superior in all areas while being treated like a bunch of simpering idiots by their own government causes frustration to build and the seeking of a remote target to launch at.
Just recently they have been treated to a glaring example of governmental disdain with them being all characterised as stupid. A new spurious term given birth overnight is to be considered as having been "Grubered."
A normal reflexive defensive posture adopted by those who have been indoctrinated from birth as having superior social features but cannot accept they live in a country with as much or even more restricted freedom-of-choice as those they choose to castigate.
The UK Nanny State???, last time I looked you could go in to a pub in the UK and buy a pint of beer at 18 years old rather than 21, and you can still watch all this type of pornography the only restrictions being on pornography actually made in the UK rather than what you can watch on the internet.
In terms of smoking, the UK laws are not that dissimilar to other countries including the US, whilst parts of the US has banned certain types of fats including trans-fats in order to try to tackle obesity. There are also according to more recent data just as many CCTV cameras in the US as the UK and guns are legal in the UK, indeed there is a thriving hunting and shooting industry bringing in billions of pounds. So why you seem to believe the UK is any worse than the US is beyond me.
If anything a lack of responsibility and accountability has allowed countries like the US to decline, as no one dare tackle the big corporations who have made our food so unhealthy and encouraged obesity. The same corporations avoid taxes by opening Headquarters overseas, whilst the rest of us have to pay our taxes. If trying to encourage better health and trying to improve peoples quality of life and indeed society is now known as the 'Nanny State' then I am all for it.
A few years higher drinking age is not evidence of a “nanny state”.
Neither is a per capita prison population
The UK statistically has way more CCTV cameras than the US.
It’s a little cringey how British people (and other Europeans) try to make themselves out to be so liberated when many countries in Europe, especially Britain, are more prudish when it comes to things like abortion laws, legalizing recreational drugs, pornography, and sex in general.
No, ten free to air channels of thousands not allowing much nudity or swearing doesn’t make the US “prudish”, and you guys are far more prudish when it comes to pornography - which is why you can’t produce it in the UK. Your obscenity law are far more restrictive, and your censorship is far more stringent - the BBC can and has banned all sorts of violent and sexual movies and video from the UK. You can’t do that in the US.
It seems to me like an odd choice to revive this particular 5 1/2 year old necro-thread, but whatever floats your boat...
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