Gaunty,
You don't work for the Syrius Cybernetics Corporation, do you?? Apologies to Douglas Adams(RIP).
I do take this personally, when various spokesmen/women for the Dept deliver very condescending media grabs, weekly.
I am a part of an Type Club, whose membership numbers around 65 out of a possible 120 aircraft. Less than 1/3 of the fleet have transferred to part 47 regs. Just how many do you think will have complied with the security checks?
Very few, I suspect. ( not for want of urging from me)Our members are about half urban and half rural.
A lot of the members are the sort of fliers who don't go anywhere much, except an annual trip to catch up with friends or a fishing trip up north.
These blokes may as well drop their licences and allow deregistration of their craft, and keep flying out here. They would be unlikely to be caught.
Ps: I suspect a lot of people have someone in the civil or public service. I also have a sister who is a DG.