All the shady stuff the UK does, it does at the behest of the US.

I don't think so. I think the British public genuinely want to live in an authoritarian surveillance state.

Once they do, they might stop wanting to live in one. But for now they want it.

	▲	Ylpertnodi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They don't. But cameras - like where I am now - came in gradually, and the public only get to see motorway crashes and the stuff the .gov want you to see. If the aussies have facial recognition, so do the brits. One eye. That will rule them all.