If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse.

Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

† Illecebrous, (lat[in]) alluring, charming, or inticing.]

But attempts to relate either of them to trends in urbanisation or increases in machinofacturing or the rise of the middle classes seem less plausible.