Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?(bbc.co.uk)

    When the workers swelled the ranks of the poor, the government stepped in once more — 
    this time to assist capitalists who petitioned for tax-funded favors.
    As even the anti-libertarian historian Christopher A. Ferrara explains, 

    “England’s response to the crisis of poverty among the landless proletariat” was a system of poor relief supplements 
    to meager wages, adopted de facto throughout England (beginning in 1795) in order to ensure that families did not starve.
    The result … was a vast, government-subsidized mass of wage-dependent paupers 
    whose capitalist employers, both urban and rural, were freed from the burden of paying even bare subsistence wages.