Parliment debates moving capital to Liverpool

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I feel a bit embaressed putting this under the politics thread, but a motion put in today (which will probably not get any time and won't get anywhere anyway) is to debate moving the offical capital of Britain to Liverpool.

Are offical capitals dud? Especially if they are specially built (Canberra, Brazillia). I always find it odd when the biggest city isn't the capital (cf Washington DC). SO are there any good reasons for this?

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

hooray!

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

When I first read the title of this thread I thought it had something to do with Parliament/Funkadelic.

God, I am way too American.

― David Allen, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that's the other Parliment thread. Though if Funkadelic moved to Liverpool there would finally be a decent band that came from there.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

You're forgetting the fab four. Eh? No, not them. I'm on about Cast. ;o)

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the capital where the government is based, rather than anything to do with the size of the place? Lots of county capitals here (and state capitals in the US, e.g. Albany) are nowhere near the biggest.

Zero chance of parliament deciding to move to Liverpool, obv.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

seat of govt. in the Netherlands = The Hague? (which is not the capital, as I discovered when losing a bet over xmas)

― zebedee, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuckin' excellent idea, they should send the GLA there too

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Altern 8's manifesto when they stood as joke candidates in 1992 included moving parliament to Stafford

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

They're bound to move there in order to run from the Giant Skull which is attacking Britain at this very moment.

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the knobbly end of a crossbone obliterates Liverpool, but Colwyn Bay looks pretty safe still.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Praise the Lawd, I'm not the only one! (see: David Allen's post above)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with dave q.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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