Re:Seriously, what is wrong with the United Kingdo (Score 1)

Some of us here in the UK have been trying hard for some time to resist the relentless encroaching and chipping away at our privacy and freedom, but there is so much apathy, that the government just pushes through whatever mad laws it dreams up with little or no opposition. I even saw some dimwit on a news report, when asked about this say "Well if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about", with not even a scintilla of irony. Many of us here feel that we are banging our heads against a brick wall, the simple truth is people don't care and won't until it is too late. Take the "dangerous pictures act", a law banning so-called extreme pornography, because few even looked twice at this law, we now have a situation where a citizen of this country can be locked up, for up to three years (the police wanted 10 years), for looking, in private, at images of consenting adults taking part in perfectly legal activities. Time and again we told people about this law, but they just shrugged and said "It won't affect us" or "This is so mad it will never get passed", but now it has been passed and it is too late, the very same people are panicking and crying about it. It is much the same with each new attack on our rights. Ten years ago Labour signed up to the European Human rights charter, the closest thing we have to a bill of rights and ever since they have been undermining it at every opportunity. Most people just shrug and say "it wont affect me" I really fear for the future here, no one not even the opposition parties are seriously opposing the infringements of our rights. It seems there is nowhere left to turn.