you have a choice, get with the 21st century,, or frankly, the rest of the world will look at you as just one more damn backwater. You have many great intellectuals, but you also have many of the same sort of people that immigrated to America and make sure that a bunch of fat old priest could get away with murder,, molestation, and a series of other crimes that your average mafiosi would not dare to touch. You can either prove that you are beyond all that, as you leave England to its own do the upper exit and join the new EU, and option frankly I wish that my nation had.. Or you can be just not a religious backwater that will be drowned in the flood as humanity frankly gets tired of propping up the religious in the world.

Ireland isn't in England, and where is the place where somebody can be jailed for laughing at Jeff Sessions or evangelicals vote enmass for a far right fascist?

to make clear that no country is without a certain level of stupidity.

US with the election of Dump45

UK with Brexit

Or a general lot of them with still outdated/backwards laws

And yes getting arrested for laughing at snowflake Repubs in the US is among the stupidity.