" What you're seeing as British business is actually international corporate business with global reach that happens to be headquartered in London because the City is still one of the world's largest financial services hubs." ~ Charmion

Quite right.

Paris in France and Amstredam in Netherlands are the same way.

By "corporate interests" one really means private interprise, crime organizations (such as drug and arms cartels), and foreign governments also.

Does anyone realize that the majority of people in Amsterdam were born in another country?

None of these once-great cities reflects the culture and values of the native folks and working people who built the cities.