Qwetryplop
I can undertstand your position, but, as an aged pilot, have little sympathy with it.
There are a lot of people out there who are prepared to give up on their civil rights because they have been persuaded that by doing so, they will make the world a safer place
Rot.....
There is absolutely no point in playing the government's game, as they are generally a bunch of amateurs, scared to death about losing a single civilian life. The fact that over a hundred military deaths have been caused by their failure to behave in what any rational person would consider acceptable is glossed over.
!!!!! happens. If an asteroid were to hit central London that is fate. During the last war death was a daily experience and people accepted it - unfair though it may be.
Our current bunch of politicos (and those never exposed to the death and suffering of war) are scared rigid of losing access to their Internet access or of having their credit card cloned. They have lost all sense of perspective.
But what scares me most of all, as someone who works daily with massive UK databases, is the way that people are surrendering their right to a personal life, unencumbered by government overview.
You, Qwertyplop, seem to have been convinced that the threat (unquantified and unjustified) is so great that you are prepared to give up on what we consider is so good about our lives in the UK.
I am prepared to stand up to this Stalinist control-freakery - I hope that others are