For me, the real question is why all these neolib governments are insisting on - spending all their political capital on - these things that have no constituenc

For me, the real question is why all these neolib governments are insisting on - spending all their political capital on - these things that have no constituency demanding them? The only people telling UK citizens that they suddenly need digital ID are ministers in the government. Who exactly are they working for? Of course, that question is asked by me in bad faith. You'll see exactly who they're working for when they are voted out and go to work for them directly. You can see now when you see who their ex-colleagues work for. So the real question is how long with the populace tolerate these massively unpopular governments, that are in-place due to historical electoral exclusion systems and media collusion, instituting massive authoritarian changes and moving more and more power into the executive and the private sector? Why have these historically 2-party countries had their 2 parties completely merge on policy matters (other than goofy wedge issues that are intentionally kept unresolved), and even combined are not even carrying majorities anymore? And how much can we hope for different out of the recently-small, disorganized, personality-driven "populist" parties who are vying to defeat them and almost getting majorities? Are they just greenfield corruption projects by the same people, to avoid or recycle the old corruption networks? Is there any possible way we can get politicians to work on all of the obvious stuff falling apart rather than spending all of their time pandering to authoritarian billionaires for life-changing amounts of cash?