This is how British politics has been allowed to operate for over thirty years. Human and civil rights, plus public services, are eroded by a hundred small steps, either in the name of "anti-terror" or "market competition".
And yes, it's true the current government want to abolish the Human Rights Act. More alarmingly, they're willing to with draw from the European Human Rights Convention, established by the UK (among other European powers) after World War 2, so that governments couldn't infringe on their own citizens or other nation states the way that fascist governments had done in the lead up to World War 2.
By no means does this equate Cameron with Hitler, because Cameron is only concerned with shoring up support from right-wing voters, and crucially, his right-wing Parliamentarians, who could, because of the tiny majority the government commands, pose serious problems if Cameron doesn't placate them. Like his negotiations with Europe or his reaction to the Scottish independence referendum, Cameron is putting the future of his political party ahead of the interests of the UK, and ahead of the standing of human rights law across Europe. It's a damning indictment of the one-sided, short-sighted oppertunism that has pervaded politics in Britain, and it has to be said that 'New' Labour did nothing to prevent us from sliding down this slope.
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