At one time, I would have dismissed this as just another conspiracy theory, but that article is, broadly true.

In the UK, vehicles are tracked through a network of cameras, some ostensibly there to help prevent traffic hold-up, but all able to track an individual's route from city to city and even within the city.
The police can access your credit card records to track your movements, and what you purchase; all of this in the name of security and the 'fight' against crime.

Break a law and you will get a conviction that will then enable police to request a control order, that can severely limit what you can do, or who you can see, or be seen with, on pain of imprisonment.

So, a criminal conviction for a minor offence can result in a lifetime of being monitored by the police, in effect you are punished twice, often for offences which are driven by political correctness.

More and more laws are passed that makes freedom of speech and expression increasing limited.

Poverty, meanwhile, is increasing, because it has been found to be an effective way of controlling people and Parliament is ignoring the will of the people and imposing their will upon the country.

They have just passed a law making it an offence in law for the prime minister to exercise his right to implement his manifesto promises that would implement what the country voted his party into office to do, and this was done in just one day.

It goes to show that they could eliminate poverty in just one day, if they wished to do so, but they are not interested in helping out the poor, they are only interested in keeping themselves wealthy and in a position to develop the power and influence to control others for their own benefit.

They are contemptuous of the average person, believing them to be too stupid to know what is best for them, when it is often the politicians who are too stupid to be relied upon to understand the complexities of affairs of state, but because they get well - paid, they think that it must mean that they must be intelligent to have got so good a salary.

All they do is toe the party line and vote the way that their party tells them to do. They have no interest anything other than money and power, which enables them to be easily manipulated.

It means that the UK is run by just a few people, who will use any means to further their own self-interest. If that means shackling the people, both metaphorically and literally, then they aren't worried and they are quite happy to criminalise their opponents, if that is what it takes.