From the BBC article:

The Liberal Democrats said the policy was "doomed to failure" from the start and called for "the billions of pounds earmarked for their mandatory digital ID scheme" to be spent "on the NHS and frontline policing instead".

Damn right. We want our money spent on something useful.

And stop sending weapons to israel

Oh yeah, all the other bad things they did too...

This is pretty much aligned with my POV: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/

Because unfortunately, all our politicians want it, and the public wants it too.

Reddit and Lemmy are very much in the minority on OSA.

Which is a shame, because I find the OSA to be stupid and unworkable.

My issue is the government coming up with ideas that everyone can see from the outset are doomed to fail, for seemingly arbritray reasons, and then rolling them back when the inevitable happens.

Winter fuel being the most glaring: we need to show the banks we're fiscally responsible, we then have no material change in how the banks view the government but have a minor shift in the forecasts for 5 years time, we've done it, we're fiscally responsible now so pensioners can have their £500 back.

They publicly condemned Israel, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever came here, sanctioned much of the Israeli parliament, refused to join the US/Israel in attacking Iran, ramped up humanitarian aid for Palestine, stopped weapons exports to Israel, and formally recognised Palestine.

I struggle to see this rabid support of Israel that Lemmy posters always seem to talk about.

They did not support Brexit.