It's occurred to me that UK isn't lying about protecting children, but what's meant is protecting children of the royalty from peasants who will need secure communication methods to organize.
Britain now has a whole ruling class where even labour leaders have gone to rich private schools.
Ps: here in Holland it's not much better but I understand better why people vote for the party that doesn't actually represent their interests. With Britain I'm too far away to understand this.
Take the housing market, when there was no regulations we ended up with inadequate housing and the poor being housed in terrible conditions. Now we brought in all the wrong regulations and it's no longer just the poor who are struggling. Next we'll vote for universal rent control, do nothing else and sooner or later nobody will be able to move.
Edit: and if we completely nationalize it we might end up with inadequate commie blocks for everyone.
oh no! the horror of everyone having a home that's ugly on the outside!
If you actually knew anything about soviet buildings this was pretty far from the truth. Multiple families were often assigned to share kitchens/bathrooms and often just one or two rooms per family to live in. They were not well designed, poorly heated and ventilated and generally pretty miserable places to live. It was not uncommon for the entire family to sleep huddled around the single kerosene heater.
They did get better as time went on but it wasn't really until the fall of the soviet union when a lot of these inadequate accommodations were demolished. Also i'm totally on board with having cheap to build ugly accommodation - so long as it's not 100% of the housing stock, By all means throw as much up as possible until we've housed all the poor, but what if i want something different?
*(with the focus of getting them to pay taxes - HMRC even today literally has no idea about the scale of tax avoidance, because they don't audit big corporations).