That looks awful, but in a fire situation you could absolutely bust them. Plexiglass is super brittle.
But the question for me is why? Like do they have so much theft that 3 foot barriers are pointless? Maybe they need to hire some door people? They’re making people less safe for no reason.
Nobody really does physical banking any more so the banks are closing their physical branches. There’s a lot of backlash because a few people can’t use online banking, it’s difficult because the numbers are small and it’s hard to justify staffing a full building when 5 customers turn up each day.
It’s not brexit related.