The worst thing about this sex scare, which is parallel to the old McCarthy 'reds under the bed' scare, is that it is being perpetrated by a democratic socialist party. Meanwhile, the Tories are protesting on behalf of civil liberties. Traditionally it was always the Tories who wanted to boost up sex scandal fears to the maximum and the socialists who tried to tell people to grow up and take an adult viewpoint.

The nanny state is rapidly becoming the ninny state.