>the UK police has been accused of infiltrating many environmental activists GCHQ does everybody, and it filters down through Special Branch to the lower levels of policing.

The irony is, you have noone to turn to when you are being done over by the Police and the state in general. The NHS, educational system, every tentacle of the state is all interlinked to the security services, I've had it since primary school because the state can not lose.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/09/mi5-policy-a...

And they wonder why individuals get radicalised and massacres occur!

If your parents were Govt employees, I sympathise, but there is a reason why Govt pay is so low, it keeps Govt employees lean and mean!