OFBSLF - no argument with that, but your comment is not in the least relevant to the point being made: we do not have a TRUE Police State of course, but it is rapidly going that way.
Actually, riverboat, my comment is quite relevant. If you believe that the reductions in civil liberties in your country are a major issue, then you need to convince others. Calling your nation a police state is, at best, a great exaggeration, or at worst, an outright lie. The Soviet Union was a police state. Nazi Germany was a police state. The UK is not anywhere close to a police state.
This type of over-the-top rhetoric hurts your efforts to convince others. You may believe that the UK is headed in the wrong direction, and you may well be right. But using that type of rhetoric will only convince folks like me that you are either 1) a few bottles short of a six-pack or 2) prone to deliberately making misleading statements.