London is a city whose two priorities are being a playground for corrupt global elites who turn neighbourhoods into soulless collections of empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky, and encouraging the feckless criminality of the finance industry. These two facts are not unrelated.

—Cory Doctorow on why he and his family are leaving London for Los Angeles

It appears that much of London is being razed in order to construct empty apartments whose sole purpose is to provide a refuge for the parasite high finance class when the revolution hits their home countries.