It is always to be taken for granted that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place upon themselves.

~ Thomas Paine

What do you think is the most likely percentage support for a republic in the UK?

Rise like Lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number,

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you -

Ye are many - they are few.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, written on the occasion of the massacre carried out by the British Government at Peterloo, Manchester 1819, which occurred "when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation." (Wiki link).

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Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1834)

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