Sounds good but it'll be ignored - they won't care about public perception, they'll shape public perception, create it. 

They'll start with anyone on benefits. Then they'll champion restricting certain payments for lottery, drink, gambling at. People will cheer for it, because why should people who don't work have nice things, right?

Next they'll start insisting that state employees then contractors accept it. They'll have no choice, they'll be strongarmed in to it. 

They'll let the process grow gradually from that point on, no sense rushing it. It'll be just like the switch from cash to contactless again...people will resist then, but by bit, for one reason or another, they'll give in. 

Eventually you'll have to pay your taxes using their shitcoin tokens. It won't mean much by that point, since the £, digital or not, will be circling the drain. But still, they'll make you pay.

The only way out is resistance.

COVID showed us how powerful they are and how the vast majority will do as they're told, when they're told, even to thier own detriment.  

 Thanks. I'm fully expecting it to be ignored, but important to get on the record nonetheless.

You also set out a plausible playbook for them. But I find certain things encouraging - not least that the more people learn about CBDCs, the more they hate them. The Bank can't create one without a change in primary legislation. We need to make sure MPs realize that if they vote for one, they'll be punished at ballot box. a
All they care about is keeping their seats.

Also we need to keep showing people where the lifeboats are, to make sure they have a means to transact even after CBDC imposition.