It was first suggested that the capital of the United Kingdom be moved at the end of the first New Elizabethan decade. The grounds for this idea were that the South of the UK was dominated by a congestive and inefficient "Great Wen" of a capital - London - whereas the North (and in actual fact the North of England seems to have been what the proponents of the idea had in mind at the time due to their Anglocentrism) lacked the economic stimulus of that same capital. It was noted that London-based industries were unlikely to move due to the fact that they were industrial and required considerable investment, but that the "industry" of government could be moved much more practically. This process had also occurred elsewhere in the world, for example in the USA, Brazil and West Germany.
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