There has been a trend for big, dumb (I mean that descriptively not judgmentally) bassline-driven tunes over the past few months actually.
But funky will not follow the same trajectory as dubstep if only because the scene qua scene will never cross over in that way.
Look at any online forum talking about UKF other than dissensus and ILX (and online forums are the least-worst proxy I think for dubstep's gradual dissemination outside of London/Bristol) and it appears the definition of "uk funky" is Blawan, Bok Bok etc. then Greenmoney, Roska and anyone who's had a single on Hyperdub.
People aren't talking about Marcus Nasty sets the way they were talking about N-Type sets.
And if a para-scene did coalesce that didn't really involve the current London scene, I can't imagine why the artists would want to be tagged "funky" really. It would diminish their appeal among the discerning middle-classes they need to target before they could eventually move onto the US rank'n'file.