User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-4851119-20140204213606/@comment-82.14.92.255-20140205210244

No influence? You've not heard of the "special relationship"?

Call Me Dave is so far up the US that all you can see are his shoelaces hanging out of the president's waistband (whichever party is in power). All his predecessors as Our Gracious Leader were the same, and I rather fancy that his successors will too.

Britain has a a wonderful record of doing things that have been tried in the US, and found to be terrible ideas.