First, because HSBC's former chairman, Lord Green, is a minister in David Cameron's government, the opposition Labour party has a powerful interest in shoutingloudly and often about what Mr Breuer called the laundering by HSBC of billions of dollars accrued by narcotics' traffickers and others.
First is that the UK has a central bank that has proved itself willing and able to buy vast amounts of the British government's debt - and as you know the European Central Bank has been shouting very loudly that it would be both illegal and wrong for it to do the same.