My neighbour is a "tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theorist".
Amongst his theories:
The government want to introduce all electric vehicles, so they can reduce motorway speeds without saying they are reducing motorway speeds.
The Sars2 virus was man-made by the Chinese so they could sell diagnostic kits to the world
The French officials wanted to make sure Toulouse got through preliminary rounds, as they had been told by Filament how good Wasps were.