"It's not just that the UK has absolutely no will to properly reform the finance sector (which remains one of the biggest risks to our economy), it's that the rest of the economy has become so weak that the UK is totally reliant on this fake finance bubble. So it has to keep the bubble going forever which means finance can't be reformed..... So there really is only one way out of this. Either we limp along in this crippled UK economy and keep begging corrupt banks to make it look better than it is through fiddles and scams – or we vote for Scottish independence and build something better."
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/13105/robin-mcalpine-escaping-corrupt-london-finance-one-biggest-opportunities-independence