<story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowsamic</author><text>I’m British, living in Germany now, and one thing that moving here made me realise is that in the UK almost everyone, even young generations, act as if the blitz is still going on. Somehow the British psyche became mortally wounded from WW2 and hasn’t recovered since. Everything is still “keep calm and carry on”. Any attempt at having a political effect is met with dismissal or even total anger</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &amp;quot;meh what are you going to do&amp;quot;, or recently very common &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&amp;quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&amp;#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yakubin</author><text>I’m currently reading a book about the history of the British Empire and I think this temperament is older. When Australian and Kiwi troops were called to support Britain in the first World War, they were baffled by how much shit the Brits were ok with taking from their superiors, while the Brits were surprised how undisciplined and prone to protest their Australian and Kiwi counterparts were. You can look even earlier. While France at the end of the XVIIIth century had a bloody revolution, which did make some people in Britain think about their lot in life, they ended up mostly just talking things over, making some mild reforms and that’s it.&lt;p&gt;So I don’t think it’s blitz. It’s an older trait of avoiding internal confrontation (which doesn’t seem to extend to the Irish who on a number of occasions throughout British history decided to either leave Britain for greener pastures, or were more willing to be a bit more aggressive).</text></comment>
<story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowsamic</author><text>I’m British, living in Germany now, and one thing that moving here made me realise is that in the UK almost everyone, even young generations, act as if the blitz is still going on. Somehow the British psyche became mortally wounded from WW2 and hasn’t recovered since. Everything is still “keep calm and carry on”. Any attempt at having a political effect is met with dismissal or even total anger</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &amp;quot;meh what are you going to do&amp;quot;, or recently very common &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&amp;quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&amp;#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conjectures</author><text>I a fellow Brit, I note that you still bring up the war! But yeah, this is true.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I don&amp;#x27;t think we get out of this hole until demographic churn (ugly phrase yeah) rebalances the electorate.&lt;p&gt;If we look at the 1992 election there&amp;#x27;s a 13% gap in conservative votes between the youngest and oldest brackets [1]. By 2019 that&amp;#x27;s a 36-46% gap [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ipsos.com&amp;#x2F;en-uk&amp;#x2F;how-britain-voted-1992&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ipsos.com&amp;#x2F;en-uk&amp;#x2F;how-britain-voted-1992&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yougov.co.uk&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;26925-how-britain-voted-2019-general-election&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yougov.co.uk&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;26925-how-britain-vot...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>