Meanwhile...

...in the US, where we are determined to double-down on the social and economic injustices currently coming to rolling boil in the UK, Paul Krugman reports that the Obama administration has made "a deliberate decision to focus on the wrong issues, knowing that they're the wrong issues," because they want to "keep the public focused on the deficit drama—to convince them their current economic woes have something to do with it, decry Washington's paralysis over fixing it, and then claim victory over whatever outcome emerges from the process recently negotiated to fix it. They hope all this will distract the public's attention from the President's failure to do anything about continuing high unemployment and economic anemia."

Let them eat deficits, or whatever.