By "shady government", does this not include the UK government itself at this point? And we don't yet know which other governments will be represented, but we can apparently expect around 60, as per the article. That's a lot of potential shadiness.
Even in totalitarian dictatorships, still rather a thing in the modern world, the population are responsible for those dictatorships.
You can't govern the unwilling. Eventually, the unwilling will either be tacitly allied with the mechanics of the society, or they will be demoted to terrorist enemies, should they attempt to change that society without, alas, the approval of the ruling minority.
You choose to stay in a country which represses minorities. You don't have it forced on you.