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They were ramping up against climate change protestors (before Covid mostly shut that down for them), and building up rhetoric against refugees. Certainly suppressing antigenocide protests is important to them, but I suspect (with no evidence, therefore complete confidence) that it's a long-term implementation of ecofascist lifeboat policy against the next few decades of climate refugees. Or perhaps the liberal scrabble for control organically produces a messy politics that is still in-line with actual long-term "conspiracy".

Part of that is Tony Blair's digital ID and currency stuff, since that'll enable some very unpleasant controls over individuals. I recall seeing some proposal suggesting using it for invisible sentencing to "reduce strain on our prison service, yadda yadda" - you're not actually in a physical cell, you're just automatically denied services and your money doesn't work in certain places.