[A Balrog of Morgoth]

a noise protection officer arrives on the scene..

Oh for Pete's sake, WTF is a "noise protection officer"? That's just ridiculous.

As soon as I saw the headline on drudge I knew this had to be another part of the 1984 5-year-plan from Oceania.

You didn't type that where the camera in your TV could see it, did you? The authorities will be around shortly to take you in.

[WoofDog123]

At times some of the subject surveillance in the UK so closely resembles 1984 that I wonder if the parties pushing this stuff are taking their ideas straight from the text. "Oh this worked great, how can we get it for ourselves?"