I didn't read the articles, but you need to realise that becoming a full time protester is a career choice these days. Globalists like Soros pay monthly retainers to activists, and bonuses when they stir up trouble for national economies. It is reported that the failed businesswoman, Gina Miller, receives £millions from Soros to attempt to mess up Brexit. This is using the legal system for active destruction. The less able just stir up trouble to cause physical destruction and unrest.
I mean while I'd love to just sit here and shit on Soros for being a dick, neither one of us can sit here and say that it's only Soros and the globalists are doing this. Both sides are going this, it's warfare by proxy and it's working to cause issues in the country. Even if the goals of the protestors are never enacted, just causing issues for the country at hand is all these people want to do.
There's always money in chaos.
Global economy is pretty solid right now though, that's the one thing that kinda puts this whole thing away.