They may as well. I was making a different implication, which is that the Square Mile calls the tune, the rest of London and England have no choice but to dance along, and that everyone else will bugger off soon enough.

It's not the City that is holding the reins - it's Tufton Street, which is in Westminster.

Fair enough... The United Kingdom of 55 Tufton Street, banks in British Empire-related tax havens, the City of London and England

There are Cornish separatists, once one domino falls, others will follow. England also has a north south cultural divide.