I do think it’s a proper slippery slope this one. We’re now looking at digital IDs, we’re looking at social credit system being trialled… a central bank digital currency will enable the state to enormously intervene in our lives..
recently you can sit back and say “Wow! What is going with the change in the relationship between the individual and the state?” and I can see why some people are quite frightened.
(UK) Conservative MP Steve Baker , intervewed by Julia Hartley-Brewer