UK is an odd ball in that regard me thinks.
That's because we're crazy and find a great deal of pleasure in laughing at other countries.
:Russians: and :Yanks:
Y'all are kind of used to our bullshit by now. I imagine Dave Cameron's cabinet laughing their asses off at the shock that the American government may have hacked Angela Merkel's phone. There are sixteen year olds in the Qatar hacking her phone, of course we're going to do it. The CIA would hack Milliband's unused AOL account account if they're bored enough.
At this point America is so much better at :sneaking: than we are, I'd be amazed if Mr. Cameron expected anything less than American spying on literally everyone. Especially us
But seriously, the state of the English parliment right now is laughable. There is no majority because all three of the main parties are extremely unpopular. The Conservatives are tearing down all the work Labour tried to do over the last decade and throwing the country into turmoil as they do it (my poor NHS:( ), Lib Dems are seen as utterly useless, and Labour just don't have the personalities at the helm to properly challenge the Conservatives.
My plan is to abandon ship and find somewhere less insane to live.
I think most of Europe goes at the US and UK both.
We wouldn't have it any other way
And to bring it back to Sochi, this camera man knows exactly what he's doing: