It's a great debate, if you are concerned you should probably get better informed however:
1. Regardless of the rules and regs, if some government overling or political hack gets it into his head he wants to do something and has the right power or the ear of the right idiot it will come to pass unless there is a sufficient lobby or loss of votes in it. For instance. The Canadian government gave a monopoly which ended up with a foreign firm for the provision of electronic marine navigation maps using info supplied by the Cdn hydrographic department (and paid for by us taxpayers). The company is now jacking the the price of all such maps with a whacking great licence fee. The Liberal government is doing something about this because a) They are already in the doghouse, and b) we are approaching an election and 10 or 20 thousand votes might just be important. The question is will the N reg owners be enough disincentive to the UK government? Probably not. Can they bring other pressure to bear? Judging by the way the whole of UK (and for that matter Cdn) GA business is treated by their government I'd not hold out much hope.
2. Regrettably snese, regulations, justice, etc don't count for much when bureaucracy gets wind up their tail so it's probably not worth counting on them.