Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public. Which is what…
I was always proud of the UK government having (a majority of) good online services that are easy to use. And that they were open source.
It’s what governments should do. It is providing for their citizens in 2 different ways: accessible services & open source.
It’s bullshit that they are drawing back from that