| United Front for the Republic | |
|---|---|
| Leader |
Winfield Oakden (1792-1804) Deric Duran (1804-1806) |
| Founded | 1787 |
| Dissolved | 1806 |
| Headquarters | Buckingham Palace, London |
| Newspaper | Republic Daily |
| Ideology |
Anti-monarchism Republicanism Liberalism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
| Official colours | Red, Green, White |
| Party flag | |
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The United Front for the Republic, more commonly known as the Republican Front, was one of the founding and most powerful political parties and factions during the British Revolution and was the ruling political party of the First British Republic throughout its entire existence. The party was formed in 1788 by Winfield Oakden in response to the failed policies and actions of the British Monarchy which left the people of Britain impoverished, humiliated internationally, and greatly weakened its power due to the North American Revolution and other wars of attrition. Such actions lead to the revolution and the establishment of the first republic in 1792 following the royal family's exile into Sweden.
Afterwards, the Republican Front built a republican system of government similar to that of the Commonwealth of England by Oliver Cromwell centuries prior and managed to gain popular support. Oakden instituted various policies from the Colonial Proclamation in which British overseas territories were given the right to become independent states or remain in union with Britain and the Oakden Trials in which former nobles, royal army commanders, and royalists were put on trial for accused crimes against the republic. After Oakden died in 1804, he was succeeded by Deric Duran who quickly made the Republican Front unpopular due to his authoritarian style of rule and his policies eventually destabilized the republic leading it open to an invasion by the First French Empire in 1806 leading to the collapse of both the republic and the front.
History[]
The Republican Front was founded by Winfield Oakden after he held his iconic Plymouth Rally where he managed to gather hundreds of promenade intellectuals and other public figures representing the oppressed lower and working classes of British society who all felt alienated by the failed and unpopular policies of the monarchy. Oakden managed to convince the attendees to form a political faction with him to demand equal representation and advocate for the eventually abolition of the monarchy, or a reduction in its power at bare minimum. The United Front for the Republic was formed by autumn of 1787 and began rallying more and more people to its cause, eventually gaining the attention of the royal government and the party was banned by the government at the orders of King George II, but the front went underground instead and Oakden and his followers continued their revolutionary activities.