Totalitarian England?

According to the Narrative we live in a free society, but as capitalism develops and all things are numbered and all actions become things and all people become Human Resources at the service of the Economy, more and more people are beginning to question just how free they are.
Initially they believe their own experiences to be unique, that the Narrative is right and that their experiences are an aberration of the system.. Indeed they may even think theirs is a problem of Perception and seek help in psychological drugs so they may become Normal once again.
But then they might accidentally talk to someone whose experiences also defy the Narrative.
And when two lunatics are together they are the Normal.
When we think of a totalitarian state we think of a state that uses torture chambers and secret police  and which maintains control through extreme violence.
However, that is to confuse the word authoritarian with the word totalitarian.
For instance, the Baathist regime in Syria is authoritarian. It is not free, but it is not totalitarian either. Before the current war Syria was a country where people were free to worship as they wished, to eat and drink what they wished, and I have heard that they paid no income tax. But if you got the wrong side of the regime you were in big, big, trouble.
England, on the other hand is not authoritarian. It is unlikely that the police will torture you, although they might stitch you up. And you are free to insult the government to your heart’s content.
However, England is a much more totalitarian country than Syria. Every aspect of life here is the government’s business.
Not only is sport funded by the government, but so is ‘culture’, your children are ‘educated’ by the government, what you drink and eat, what you do with your house, what you say, is all the business of Government.
Not only are your earnings monitored by the government through income tax, but every economic transaction is monitored too, through a sales tax.
From the moment you are born in a government hospital, to the moment you die in a government hospital, your business is the government’s business.
Regulation is the stuff of everyday life.