Politicians are supposed to represent the will of the public. It rarely works that way in practice, but the strongest demonstration of that may be what’s happening in the UK with this new data retention bill. We wrote about it earlier, but MP Tom Watson has more details on how this is an “erosion of political trust,” in which leaders of multiple parties in Parliament worked together to do a deal that clearly goes against the will of the public, and then sought to shove it through with no debate at all.