Carney be like "We gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers".
The tinfoil hat Dale Gribble in my soul can't stop theorizing that this is seen across the major Anglosphere countries (UK. Canada, Australia, not USA because they do whatever the fuck they want) as a form of "controlled collapse", i.e. they know the system cannot be saved so they're euthanizing it slowly. And the limeys don't have the EU to blame anymore as they left that club and the Death Camp of Tolerance experiment did not slow down for them. What will the endgame be after that? The rich fuck off to their underground bunkers and leave the unwashed masses to Mad Max/Escape from L.A. themselves? I've learned not to discount any rationale as too "cartoon villain" for those running the show, they've possibly considered worse.