The government is never going to admit they are wrong, even when it is blatantly obvious. There will always be someone else at fault.

This law that they are using to threaten people is stupid as well. I remember there being a politician that wanted to bring a similar law to the floor of Congress a while back but it failed miserably.

You do not have free speech when you have laws like that on the books. Course, I believe the UK has never claimed their citizens have "free speech" have they?