No need to defend me Tim, but thanks anyway.

Britain is on a slippery slope. IMHO the government and it's agencies make you the most watched and controlled society in the free world (with America not too far behind you). Authority for authority's sake should be challenged at every opportunity.

The only thing you have going for you (as is evedienced by the social ills in Britiain today) is that the government is, at present, thoroughly incapable of effecting this control across all layers of society, just on the ones more compliant than others.