Will The Sinking Pound Actually Bring about Anarchy?

Not that the British media is recognized for staying away from sensationalizing the information every single opportunity it gets, but what do you make of the Daily Mail’s response to the British pound’s recent flirtation with parity to the Euro (not to mention a virtual nosedive towards the USD): “‘In past decades a currency crisis on this scale would have threatened governments,’ mentioned the Daily Mail.”

I think it’s far much more possible you’re going to see all of a sudden richer people from the Continent roaming Oxford Street than wandering bands of pitchfork-carrying Brits searching for the head of Gordon Brown. Possibly the Mail’s implying that in many years previous, this kind of disparity would trigger a peaceful electoral defeat for the ruling party, but come 1, which sounds like it’d be a lot more pleasurable to see?