https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-government-plan...
I disagree with this part. The EU is on that same path. The EU Great Firewall idea has been kicked around for years and it has even shown up in some policy suggestion documents.
I would describe the EU as wavering. Perhaps they'll do it, but it's far from certain.
It would be nice if the UK government used the ridiculous powers they gave themselves to hold Boris Johnson to account though.
But you could make the argument that it was largely due to Britain.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/15/politics.politica...
Perhaps you meant another democratic country where the idiot clowns hadn't taken over the circus ...
Serious question as a UK citizen who doesn’t live there anymore. Post-Brexit, leaving is surprisingly difficult despite the refrain of the morons who say “if you don’t like it go somewhere else”, blind or ignorant to the fact they removed that option.
Of course most governments in the UK, like everywhere else (whether right or left wing) are, more or less secretly, authoritarian so they will be favourable to a great firewall when the right time comes.
The EU has been talking about it for some time and I'm sure they'll stick it together with some 600 pages policy nobody will bother reading at some point. https://diginomica.com/eu-policy-doc-recommends-building-eur...
They can't remove all our freedoms at once or people may lift their heads from their smartphones and protest.
We're being slowly boiled alive.
If the UK really cared about unelected government, why don't they get rid of their House of Lords? This would have been much less painful than Brexit. It looks a lot like this unelected government complaint is just an excuse and not something that they actually care about.
The issue is whether the leaders of the commons should be able to appoint people to the upper chamber for life, whether the church should have a seat at the table etc. Or whether the upper chamber should be directly elected. It’s a matter of governance and constitution more than embedded privilege.
So as much as “Guillotine the nobs” would be a popular cry, most of them aren’t nobs in the first place.
French Revolution - 1789.
English Revolution - 1649.
So the English cut off their Monarch's head before the French did. But we then invited the Monarch's back after not liking the republic of the "Lord Protector".
Admittedly the English state, not the later British state, but anyway...
So instead, here's the simple truth.
The UK, in a surge of authoritarianism, cut its own balls off by leaving the EU (and the Civil rights it confers). It did this to appease fringe nutjobs and to make a pile of money for hedgies. Then it howled in pain and blamed the EU, even though the EU was against the chopping of the plums from the get-go.
The conditions for this bollockectomy were created by a barely-elected government, after the fall of which we have had, mainly, unelected government.
This entire manoeuvre was done under a screed of fractal dishonesty, in which scuttling little fibs decorate a structure of brassy falsehoods all stacked higgledy-piggledy on a giant whopper. Unwilling to accept the blame, the responsible parties continue to lie to this day.
In a parallel move completely unrelated to the above, the unelected UK government is ramping up surveillance. The EU has not done this, but the liars blame it anyway.