I have relatives in England. One, a middle aged lady in her late 50s and an example of what some would call "white trash" in the US, got into a heated argument with a gentleman who lives nearby on her "council estate" in Manchester. I forget the issue. Anyway, my relative has a delightful vocabulary that would make a drunken sailor blush and in the heat of the moment she called the gentleman, who is homosexual, "a gay c*#t".
Fast forward to the next morning. There is a knock on the door from PC Plod who reads my relative her rights then asks her to accompany him to the local "nick" as they say in those parts. She's being charged with using "hate language". After a few hours in the lock-up she is bailed, to await her day in court which is still pending.
As a first offender I anticipate a modest fine and/or probation.
Britain is entering the latter stages of that long walk to oblivion.
What a terrible and sad story; it’s so sad to see a culture that was so glorious that it once ruled the waves decline into such embarrassing, infantile idiocy.