Here we go again. I should start hunting people and stapling this to their face.
One of the fundamental ideas of Bitcoin is the separation of state and money; i.e. this means that if you want to get out of the current corrupted financial system, then Bitcoin is your way out.
Don't worry: when finally the fiat currency bubble will explode, they will learn

They? Or everyone else. Because financial elites never learns. It is us - real people - who suffers the most from crisis usually.
I understand that this new feature of UK banks are honey for normal people who don't know what bitcoin is and how it can change the world.
I find it quite dangerous for bitcoin popularity as people like op have little idea about economic state of our world.