Well, when I went there two years ago, I noticed the not one but two security cameras in my small hotel elevator, not to mention the dozens on every street, and the large posters informing me that knives are illegal and that "SELF DEFENSE IS NO DEFENSE."
While the UK is a much worse place than the US, it really isn't what one could call totalitarian.
The UK has a 7% unemployment rate. Ours is 9%.
And the UK isn't in as much debt as we are, and the median household income is almost the same....
and the median sized house in the UK is about the size of my garage
