Re: Depressing.
"I think the chap you should be looking at is Charles Farr Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation at the Cabinet Office"
He'll definitely be in this "coalition of the willing" (as Shrub liked to call such undertakings).
But he won't be alone.
It comes down to this.
Forget the "right" and "left" tags. That's BS where this is concerned.
There are simply those who believe in the democratic process and those who don't. These are the authoritarians.
So far the authoritarians seem to have built better cross party support for this. The appeal is of course "It won't affect you, you're in power."
The fools who listen to this never seem to realize a)They don't control the system. They have no real power over it and b)When they leave office, they have even less pull than they think they have.
These systems are like the results at the end of "War Games."
The only winning move (for privacy and freedom) is to not build them in the first place.