Here in the US we say you get what you pay for.
After decades of voting in Socialist Government that breeds bigger and bigger government and bigger and bigger bureaucracy that is exactly what you get.
When you institute a government that has as its purpose to control every thing that goes on within its borders to control everything that is done by its citizens what else can you expect to happen?
When big government becomes infested with people that believe in the power of government and want to wield that power; government becomes the realm of true believers like this director of operations David Jordan who call the flooding of homes a success story.
Now they have socialists in the Tory party. There ought to be no surprise that the people in power are going on as they did in the USSR and Red China.