I had heard that during the peak of the conflict with the IRA, more brits came to view surveillance as necessary to safety, and then it remained that way. Don't

I had heard that during the peak of the conflict with the IRA, more brits came to view surveillance as necessary to safety, and then it remained that way. Don't know how true this is. It's eerily similar to the 9/11 situation and the Patriot Act though.