And its only one of an arsenal of convenient little insults kept on hand to imply that political opponents are somehow pansies and wimps.

It compresses and exaggerates an entire means of looking at the world and casts it as something trivial and childish, and by implication, totally unacceptable, even effeminate. And if you disagree you must be a nanny-lover.

I suppport an ongoing discussion of a cost-benefit approach, although it's unnecessary in this context because I've already agreed that what these Brit cops are doing is ridiculous. But it's not ridiculous because I'm a nanny or believe society should be a nanny--or not. I resent that I am forced to defend myself against rhetorical charges, denigrating characterizations and convenient little labels that are deliberately contrived to ridicule me or what I happen to believe.

"Go away you fucking liberal." would at least be more honest.