NP except very, very tangentially, maybe

[Mark Kohut]

>From a book called This Little Band of Prophets--on the British Fabians-- 
by Anne Freemantle, 1959, 11 years after "1984"..... 

there is this: 'since the Welfare State has now been accepted by both 
the Conservative and Labor Parties as the successor to the Watchdog 
State and as the only possible alternative to, and preventative against,  
the Police State." 

and she repeats one way that part of the Fabians were referred to: 
"water and gas Fabians"