Singapore is also a pretty authoritarian state. Not to put down the amazing work that Lee did in making it a functional, successful state that's substantially wealthier than its neighbors, but it's a product of the time and place of its formation that made a lot of hard choices to prevent it from spinning out into nothingness or being absorbed by its much larger neighbors. I wouldn't call it a model for the UK.

Has this been your experience serving on juries? Mine hasn't been like this at all (northeastern US).