(With apologies to Murdoch if I'm mis-interpreting his 'huge dark wave' line in 'Wizards and Bros'.)
There are forces beyond the reach of normal politics, or seemingly so. There are NGOs with ungodly amounts of money moving hundreds of thousands of 'refugees' into Britain and Ireland at terms too generous for landlords to resist. This section consists mostly of Morgoth and CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), an attempt to make money completely digital, and centrally-, and micro- (individually), controllable.
CBDCs:Where Morgoth gets his info from, UK Column - very UK-centric (duh). They aspire to be the highest grade of alternative media - they've all held government office, eg.