What will be interesting is whether or not VPNs will be offered by ISPs here in the light of the snoopers charter. There are some indications that some are already making tentative offers, and if the price is reasonable then I can see a lot of people switching over to using a VPN just for privacy. Once a significant number of users does this it makes the snoopers charter a pretty pointless bit of law, quite aside from the fact that I'm sure the bad guys they want to catch are already using either secure VPNs or TOR, making additional public data surveillance laws pretty pointless for their stated aim.
I know my local (conservative) MP vaguely, and will be meeting with him about something else in the next few weeks. I've a good mind to point out that those of us using VPNs are effectively side-stepping the snoopers charter, and making the UK balance of payments problem worse, as all the VPN providers are offshore, so money is flowing out of the country to pay for them................