Wow, that's a great indication that the UK at least takes bitcoin very seriously and I have found the government's approach here to be very friendly to bitcoin as shown by UK being the only English speaking jurisdiction which treats bitcoin as a currency for tax purposes.
I wrote an article about it some time ago:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-taxation-revives-ancient-debate-money/ and during sourcing I found the treasury spokesmen here to behave like jumping supper happy puppies when asked about bitcoin, in great contrast to US taxation authorities which I found to be extremely cold while the ATO was somewhere in the middle.
My speculative theory is that as the government here is conservative (the equivalent of republicants in US) they are ideologically in line with bitcoin's principles of sound money and its Hayek economics and the opposite being the case in the US so being run by democrats.
It is because, in my view, bitcoin has huge political support on one side of society's governance that I find it extremely unlikely for a western government to declare bitcoin illegal.
We hear in our community a labeling of bitcoin as many things, I think one of those things, and perhaps the most important, is that bitcoin applies the economic principles of the austrian school, and, in my view, because of it, bitcoin finds huge political cover and support far beyond ancaps or cypherpunks etc. It further of course provides the huge technological inventions which save a huge amount in fees and friction, thus improving the state of any nation economy and the world.
That is why its success, in my view, is inevitable for what it provides is obviously good and what is obviously good shall necessarily prevail. Some may be able to delay tomorrow's future though... but now that the world's experts have realised just what bitcoin is, we stand at the edge of changing the world with the power of our ideas.
In regards to some miners' comments about BU, they usually a shy bunch, but they didn't say much more than what I stated earlier. I think we just need to prove in some way that it is a perfectly safe client and then get as many nodes up as possible.