The home office aren't giving enough funding (and/or organisational change?) to the police either. Bike stolen? Car stolen? House broken into? Mugged on the street? They don't have time to investigate any of it.

This stuff is what actually reduces the quality of life of the average person. Why waste time and money putting this sort of draconian and technically infeasible law through when they're doing nothing about petty (or increasingly less petty) crime?