[isaacremuant]

Nobody wants this law but it's very common in the UK and Europe to pretend consultations make it a democratic process with good representation when it's just the typical power hungry politicians, security forces and corporate lobbyists getting their way. It's not middle England or "conservatives". It's usually approved by the parliamentary monoparty of the current time and the entire pretense on dissent is usually performance for different set of BS.

Of course it's useful to have people like you make it about fake left v right tribalism so you don't realize how far from a democracy these parliamentary systems are.