Yes, welcome to the Brave New World of modern Britain, where there is "care in the community" (9 to 5 if you're lucky), and a regime that thinks that all ills can be put right by "technology". People in other parts of the world may not be aware, for instance, that we have cameras that shout at you if you misbehave in the street! And that we're discouraged from doing DIY repairs to our homes, cars etc. (for our own safety). And there are "plans" to tag elderly folk ("for their own good", you understand). Can't help wondering what the next gushing
initiative (read ... social tinkering - I can't bring myself to call it social
engineering) will be. Could be anything. It's known as the "Nanny State" (as in,
Nanny knows best). Why people are queuing up in droves to come and live here is beyond me (swapping one form of tyranny for another, perhaps?). Perhaps they're just misinformed?
