I have a feeling that UK people have decided not to care about hypotheticals, and that includes laws that technically exist but aren't inconveniencing them right now. People basically assume that the law lets the government do as it damn well pleases, or lets it off for doing so with a totally ineffectual slap on the wrist. Therefore the content of the law is irrelevant.
If the government uses the law to do bad things, people might start to raise a ruckus.
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I have a feeling that UK people have decided not to care about hypotheticals, and that includes laws that technically exist but aren't inconveniencing them right now. People basically assume that the law lets the government do as it damn well pleases, or lets it off for doing so with a totally ineffectual slap on the wrist. Therefore the content of the law is irrelevant.
If the government uses the law to do bad things, people might start to raise a ruckus.
Perhaps it even needs to be 'do bad things to them' before ruckus-raising ensues.
The problem is when the laws inevitably start including clauses that make it illegal to talk about the bad things that are done.
Because... terrorism?