England is turning into a surveillance state (something I have been warned many a time to keep one eye on by a good friend who lived through some bad shit in East Germany), half the population is out for the blood of anyone darker than a sheet of A4 paper, military awareness and propaganda is at an all time high and the economic disparity between the rich and the poor is INSANE.
It's rife for an explosion of sorts soon. I don't want to be here when it goes.
Scotland I believe would survive this if independent.
EDIT: It can't be any worse than the path we are already on.
And Norwegian security services have decades worth of history of blatantly illegal politically motivated surveillance (basically anyone to the left of the Norwegian equivalent of Labour used to be under extensive surveillance - some of it so blatant it was clearly intended to intimidate rather than uncover anything; it was supposedly stopped in the mid 90's, but given that the security services were illegally monitoring the head of the parliamentary committee investigating them while he was investigating them gives me zero confidence anything has changed)