No. This is an outrage and the British people will rightly be outraged. The effects of this will and should be felt in the next election and beyond. Your sophisticated world-weary cynicism is counterproductive.
It's been ""known"" for years that Special Branch helped murder people in Northern Ireland, and outside the republican community and the small subset of mainland "left" that pays attention, it makes no difference.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/how...
(Far too many of the "british people" read rightwing press outlets which will minimise this and some other issue, probably Brexit, to rile up their readers to demand more not less authoritarianism)
"The government always wins the election" is a very typical British saying and quite true.
Almost nobody will give a shit.
Those that do won't remember come election time.
I object to the term 'cynicism'. Inductive reasoning, maybe. There's nothing inherent in the definition of a British person that necessarily includes apathy towards current affairs.
But most swans are white, there's nothing cynical about that, and similarly I say with no cynicism that most British people forgot about this five minutes after hearing/reading about it, if they heard or read about it at all.
Any?
The option of "bonkers, but in a completely different way" politics is available in France, Belgium and Italy. You can also have "corrupt but extremely safe for the general public" in Singapore and Japan.
Should? Yes. Will? No.
>Your sophisticated world-weary cynicism is counterproductive
Painfully naive idealism isn't any different. You have to work with reality, not deny it.