Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

So the regulators are to blame because they weren't regulating enough. And this is because of political interference, which was coming from political parties who were going for the populist vote (because everyone loves deregulation)?

To a point yes, except they were pandering to the economic big fish who fill the party coffers, and fund campaigns, which then enable them to sell to us how we have never had it better in a media blitz.