The UK capital has heard little from Occupy recently, in stark contrast to the airtime devoted to the movement during its four-and-a-half month stay on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, which became the makeshift home to the protesters after they were barred from pitching their tents outside the London Stock Exchange in mid-October 2011.

Raymond Obedencio, a shop-owner from Sydenham in London who remains heavily involved with the movement, said: "We're trying to take things more slowly. We were rushing around, we kept getting evicted. A lot of us experienced activist trauma after sleeping outside for months."