I think you'll find the vast majority of Brits laugh at all such media nonsense and blame it all on the European Parliament.
The only people likely to believe it are those looking for a good opportunity to do the American thing and sue the pants off the first person they can, citing this media nonsense as justification.
PS - I heard Al Quaeda are using invisible, undetectable rays through the internet and television to mess with your head and turn everybody into drooling, paranoid vegetables so that they can come and take over the Earth with their Martian friends waiting round the dark side of the moon. Seems to be working so far.