"in this case "active" means getting off our backside and doing something, "
Apart from recording a copy of every email, text and phone call metadata for everyone in the UK forever?
How thoughtful.
And because every other bit of UK infrastructure seems to be owned by a foreign company (or even in the case of Thames Water a foreign state owned company) and therefor could not give a f**k about defending itself because it's not actually a legal requirement to do so.