[2banana]

How did England get to this point?

“Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace - and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You’ve come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live. At least awhile. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”
—Mel Gibson as William Wallace, speaking to the Scots - outnumbered three to one - on the battlefield at Stirling Bridge, A.D. 1297. (Braveheart, 1995)

[Stoat]

How did England get to this point?

Putting the Left into positions of power provides this sort of result (and oftentimes much worse) wherever it's done.

[Oberon]

Power is not a means, it's an end.

-- O'Brien, 1984

[agere_contra]

How did England get to this point?

As you no doubt know, England is ruled by socialists solely because of the votes of the Scots, tied to England's coat-tails by James II (IIRC). So the quote from Braveheart is a masterpiece of irony :0)