The problem is that the UK scene is divided between the "serious" and "unserious."

Larry Elliott who is economics editor at The Guardian has pointed this kind of contradiction out in the past, but nobody cares, because, well, he writes for The Guardian, so what credibility does he have compared to a 1000 mud flinging tame economists working for think tanks like the Adam Smith Institute?

that it's not even the city of London, but just the self-capitalised "City", and the very small geographical area it occupies (the similarly self-aggrandizing "Square Mile" and its recent annex in the Docklands and around Mayfair).

Most non-City Londoners (and even a large chunk of City workers) have to pay the price for that extravagant parasitic concentration of wealth in that real estate prices have become insane, and, with the insanity decreasing in slow concentric waves, people need to live huge distances from their place of work, with the accompanying strain on infrastructure and the price of everything else.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes