Canary in a gold mine

Government of UK tries to reclassify public land into
private land, because it doesn't want people
wandering around telling bankers what they think
of them.
They doesn't think that bankers will get lynched, do they?

Anyway, the article below from Private Eye isn't
completely correct about Paternoster Square, because
he claims it's public land, as in "part of London".

Ya, it's part of London. The part that belongs to
an offshore jurisdiction, right smack in the middle
of the EU, along with Lichtenstein and Monaco.
The City of London
belongs to a 'corporation', which is Old English for
'a bunch of rich anti-democratic offshore banking bastards'.
It's been going on since before William of Orange.
Now, banks use the offshore thing to do business in London
and pay minimal taxes, because they say "we're not really here,
so we'll pay some token Rolls Royce tax to the government"
What I don't understand is how the City was allowed to do the
same at Canary Wharf which is not part of the City Corporation.
I'd like to see the paperwork on that costly
philosophical, political and legal leap into the unknown.

Are bankers doing "offshore banking" in Canary Wharf?
Has jurisdiction over Canary Wharf been ceded to the City Corp?



IshitUnot:
Private Eye 1302 Piloti pg16
The blurring of public and private space has also been evident in London, where no demonstrations against the greed of incompetent bankers may take place in Canary Wharf or in Broadgate in the City of London because, we are told , these developments are ‘privately owned’. And the St. Paul’s protesters had wanted to occupy the new Paternoster Square where the Stock Exchange is located, but the police sealed off the area saying it was private property. Since when are public streets and squares in London regarded as private? On the Bedford Estate, for instance, the gates that restricted entry to the area were removed by act of parliament in 1893. In Bedford Square, laid out by the Duke of Bedford in the 1770s, the garden remains private but, for better or worse, traffic runs through it and it is a public space.
The present Paternoster Square lies on the site of Paternoster Row, a thoroughfare in existence since medieval times....a sign went up announcing that ‘Paternoster Square is private land’. This is strange, as Rowan Moore has recently observed, “as almost every architectural statement, planning application , and press release, in the protracted redevelopment of Paternoster Square, described this ‘private land’ as ‘public space’.