I’m not adept enough at uk politics to know, but shit seems to be going sideways there in a fucking hurry

It's being done on purpose. The powers that be are trying to demoralise the population and foment a civil war (or an actual war) because it's the only way the City of London will get it's debt reset. City of London has been doing infinite rehypothication of assets for decades (because they can), now they are finally completely fucked they are trying to dump the losses on gen. pop.