Akenaton alleged:

The legislation is universally disliked, hence the lack of protests over its abolition.

If you'd said "widely disliked", you just MIGHT have been in the ball park, but "universally"? No way, Jay. "Universally" is such an extremely broad expression that it is wiped out by even ONE liker.

And "the lack of protests"? Hardly. But then, you say you get "plenty of information from my friends in America." Two things to point out there: Your source is "my friends in America". From long context, it's clear that your friends in America (if there really are any) are the nutty right. And what you call "plenty of information" is really "plenty of agreements with what I want to believe".

That really means that "my contacts" (again, if there really are any) "in America tell me what I'm ready to believe."

Dave Oesterreich