Delayed Cotton Gin, British effects

WI the Cotton Gin were postponed to 1820 or later

(In the US Slavery is less strong and that has effects)

In OTL Cotton was the big industrial revolution produce in old England.

If it were more expensive it would be less important.

Peasants had been forced out by enclosures and grown population.

What happens?

Does wool or Ulster Linnen become more important? Does England have more unrest?
 
I'm not sure that the cotton gin's absence would matter as much to Britain as all that.

Cotton was "virtually a new industry" as of the start of the Napoleonic/French Revolutionary Wars (coincidentally starting at the same time as Whitney's cotton gin) - but there's a lot else going on.

It's certainly a valuable part, but it seems unlikely that it would crush the IR or Britain's prosperity, much as some people want to imagine the Napoleonic era seeing Britain nearly broken with debt.

Also, why would it take that much longer? Whitney's design was pretty dang simple - and the potential benefits from a solution pretty dang obvious.

It taking another generation seems unlikely.
 
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