Re: Not wishing to trust Big Gov, but--
"The government can be voted out"
No they can't. You just vote one or other government in but The government is there regardless. What's worse, most of this junk really stems from the HO who are extremely efficient at brainwashing new Home Secs* and they're still there whoever wins the election.
*The current specimen even gave an interview to the Times describing how it was done but, of course, he didn't describe it in those terms because he didn't realise that that was what it was.