When will someone in our ruling class stand up and say no to handing over any and everything to the states.

Why not only offer the outsourced work to non-multinationals or at least EU only companies.

While we continue to bend over and take in the arse from USA they will continue to think they rule the world, since effectively they do.

Just what is it we rely on the states so much for, that we cannot get elsewhere in the world?

In reference to Jeremy's comment and I am not always one to back up large companies, Fujitsu Services although part of the Fujitsu Group headquarted in Japan has it's headquarters in London and employs well over 10,000 people in the UK. It took over and transformed the ailing british computer firm ICL. Unlike many of it's europoean rivals it does not automatically send all the work off to India to be delivered for peanuts. They also run many of the major systems for Government including the MOD and the Private Sector so I don't see the risk in them managing the systems for ONS.

The Census 2001 itself was made with heavy involvement from Fujitsu-Siemens and Lockheed Martin anyway. Getting worried about it now is shutting the stable door after the entire farm has bolted.

I'd be more worried about the UK's national identity registry. Like the census, only doubleplusgood.