[jimnotgym]

> You misunderstand.

Nice, start with an insult!

> they don't have to navigate around that pesky 4th Amendment.

They got around that in the UK already by not having a 4th Amendment...or indeed a written constitution.

> They do it so they have a massive backlog of information,

This implies a level of competence I do not recognise in the UK government.

[kentrado]

In which universe, is that an insult? You are assuming malice.

[jimnotgym]

You told me I misunderstood the facts, and implied therfore that I was naive. It is a classic 'forum' pattern, that people accept, but they shouldn't. It is a kind of sly underhand way of calling someone dumb