Both parties won an absolute majority of seat in the parliament of their respective countries, and that without winning an absolute majority of the votes, because of how the election system works.
Both parties are also defend conservatives views, which people might or might not like. However, the UK's conservatives, while they are opposed by many they aren't considered dangerous, while the PiS is considered very dangerous for democracy. Why is there a difference?
The reason PiS is considered dangerous is not because they have the absolute majority, it's what they are doing with it. In just the first three month of the legislative period, they:
I don't want to claim that the motivation behind these measures is to build a totalitarian police-state but they are very obvious steps in that direction.
I don't want to claim either that the United Kingdom is much better in any of these regards. After all, the supreme court of the UK is quite weak due to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, their super-injunctions are a powerful and often abused media control tool and their surveillance infrastructure is second only to that of the US. But in the UK this was a slow process.
Poland currently does too much at once which worries the other EU states.
