> From the Blair-era defeat of national ID cards onwards, the British people have been wary of anything that seems like a national database. Begin tracking peop

> From the Blair-era defeat of national ID cards onwards, the British people have been wary of anything that seems like a national database. Begin tracking people in a centralised system, they fear, and it’s the first step on an inexorable decline towards a surveillance state. But as the weight of legislation piles up, it seems inevitable that something will change soon. It is "inevitable" that unwanted legislation will be passed? This sounds like a tacit admission that British democracy is broken.