TBH...

I trust online retailers more than I trust HM Gov when it comes to data protection... Actually scratch that.. I trust retailer more than HM Gov on everything!

If a retailer looses your data (thinking credit cards here), their ability to process credit cards will be very swiftly pulled by their upstream provider. They'll loose you as a customer too. All of which is very bad for business.

If HM Gov loses your data, assume all of it, what happens? Some poor junior gets the boot, and HM Gov might say sorry. Can you pull their support? Nope, not unless it's an election year, and even then you'll just get the same muppets with a different colour rosette.

Hello? Is that my keychain polling you?

I just had a flash it was. Look here, do you trust giving your data to chaps who can't sing (or even successfully mime) "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau," the Welsh national anthem? Me neither... Alrighty, then, that Scottish secretary will have to do.

I got it!

You guys need your own Ron Paul to vote for and support. People here were too stupid to look into him and support him. They just vote for whoever the telly tells them to. But maybe you Brits have a little more going on upstairs.