[moylan]

when it comes to surveillance the british have a history of intercepting communications.

like intercepting most phone traffic from ireland using a legal loophole from 1985. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/may/31/northernireland.ric...

so fingers crossed the british public make their government back down but i wouldn't believe that it would stop them.

[alan_cx]

I promise you, we wont. We Brits tend to take what ever our Oxbridge regime dictates.

[ktizo]

Many people in the UK cant really be bothered to do anything anymore and the whole place is under a kind of drug induced malaise, possibly because after the whole Empire malarky, most potential projects seem relatively futile and unambitious.

So only the people at the bottom and the top take any interest in politics or industry really. To be honest I think it is a miracle the place manages to run at all, our three biggest industries being finance, then betting on house prices, and third being arms manufacture and export. Ordinary manufacture is sixth in that list, yet pays more tax than the finance industry, last time I checked.

[peteretep]

Remind me again why attending Oxford or Cambridge is:

- Bad - In any damn way related to this discussion

[peteretep]

Minus 2? Explain yourself.