Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25626-20151023184552/@comment-21519-20151027035918

Three things in favor of Fakenham as temporary capital:

1. Scunthorpe most likely has the toughest air defenses in England,and it's one of the few places where they can beef it up even farther without making the KGB suspicious;

2. Britain's not that big, is not that far from continental Europe, and doesn't really have a middle of nowhere. If the government wants to go somewhere that they can't be gored by a Bull, then it's off to the colonies. At which point their moral authority becomes nil.

3. You simply don't create a viewpoint character who owns a pub in Fakenham, then announce that all these VIPs on the run are holing up in a pub in Louth.

Also, it's not like they'd be moving in with Daisy. On the contrary: With the whole of Britain being within striking distance, their best hope of survival lies in moving too fast for the KGB to track them. Fakenham could be one of many stops along the way, and they stay there for two or three scenes, long enough for Daisy to see lots of interesting things before turning back into something a bit more pedestrian.