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As they have been, at least since Tony Blair

Or until the voters wise up and start electing people that believe and espouse imperfect freedom rather than perfect control.

> until the public gets too exhausted

I see this theory pop up around here every few months. Where does it come from? I suspect it's a meme without basis.

Can you please name one time in history where the public gets "exhausted", and as a consequence unwanted legislation is passed?

I’m not too worried about that as I assume it’s not (just) the public but also lobby groups and industries who have an interest in this.

It’s not that hard to explain what would happen and any politician will understand doing something like this would be quite bad for their career.

I do agree that they will keep trying, but the chance of it happening seems slim, as there is just no way to implement this.