No, the Tories tend to be assholes, but are smarter and not as insane/blatant as the GOP. Labour... well, we'll see. Corbyn's overturned everything. The UK is a smaller country so it can consider things that just would not fly in America. The Blairites are like covert Republicans who say they're Democrats.

Yeah on the surveillance state, but the saving grace is the British tend to be a bit more incompetent in a lot of things, based on my American sensibilities. And they end up wasting money which gets things shut down. Especially government run things. All the jokes about tea breaks aren't exactly jokes either.

May has no clue at all about much of anything IT related, so they are going to have to go house to house to ensure everyone in this country isn't using a VPN. And the British tend to be obstreperous, so that means EVERY house. The only real solution is to nationalize all the ISPs and what Tory is going to vote for that?