Thought crimes? Seriously? If you don’t like somebody’s opinion, you have three valid options: debate the person, leave the person alone or simply agree to disagree with the person. There will always be at least one person who hates a group of people, because hate, ignorance, bad experiences and a lack of good experiences are real things people go through. What the police are doing is not only a waste of time, effort and tax-payers’ money, it is also counterproductive. If you are going to get arrested just for criticising the actions of a certain group, this will only make you hate that particular group even more. The reason the U.K. went from an extremely homophobic country to one of the most gay friendly countries in the world is because gay people wanted to be left alone and fought for their right to be left lone. But now that a lot of liberal gay activists are harassing people and refusing to leave other people alone, support for gay rights is going to decline across the western world.

On top of all that, these thought-policing actions of the police are taking away resources that could be used to arrest rapists, murderers, thieves, vandals, human traffickers and thugs, resources that could be used to find missing persons and help people who are lost, resources that could be used to keep communities peaceful. But instead, British police officers have become a joke. Almost nobody in the U.K. respects police officers anymore, except for smoothbrains who read newspapers like the Guardian or watch cable television news programmes like Sky News. When British cops are not harassing people for having independent thoughts or walking in the streets, they are twerking in front of cross dressers at pride parades or dancing to grime music. It’s pathetic.