About what I figured. So, I guess it all comes down to campaign contributions. With any reasonable budget and even one mangled testicle it should be possible to stir up quite a storm and ride it into office with a mandate to bridle the City. One just needs to be free to make the counter case that the City is a giant parasite on the body politic in the U.K. and that all else is just self serving propaganda.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."