Who’s the best British ruler?
Who’s the best British ruler?
Ayden Nguyen
Nolan Bailey
Victoria
Evan Flores
Guillaume, Duc de Normandie
Charles Rivera
Harald Hadrada or based Man of The People Cromwell.
Jack Baker
Cromwell. This is not up for debate
Grayson Ramirez
for me, it's lord sutch
Ethan Collins
>Lord Sutch when Lord Bucket-Head exists
James Sullivan
Guillaume le conquérant.
Alexander Anderson
For Britain? Queen Victoria or Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
For England? Queen Elizabeth I or King Alfred
For Wales? Rhodri the Great
For Scotland? King Robert the Bruce
For Ireland? High King Brian Boru
Ethan Parker
Ivar the Boneless
Wyatt Price
>guy on the right getting dab mogged
Matthew Butler
Colton King
Julius Caesar because he killed a lot of them
Isaac Nelson
Why do Brits love Cromwell?
Ryder Jackson
Because he cucked the king into giving us Parliament, basically ending monarchical rule.
Zachary Hall
Anthony James
He was a tremendous general, a staunch Republican and he beheaded the tyrant king. Granted he also banned Christmas and slaughtered a lot of (mostly Irish) Catholics, but most of our great leaders had their faults. He tried to install democracy multiple times but had to resort to dictatorship because Parliament refused to cooperate.
Even after he died and the Monarchy was invited back into Britain, Parliament now reigned supreme, his rebellion is what essentially sent us on the road to democracy even if he failed to install it himself
Owen Gutierrez
LORD PALMERSTON
Connor James
Didn't he end parliament and declare himself functionally king?
Chase Morales
Comrade Corbyn who will lead the Democratic People's Republic of the United Kingdom (ireland entirely assimilated) into a new era
Josiah Morales
based and REDpilled
Jeremiah Howard
Ethan Ross
Yeah, because Parliament wouldn’t cooperate with him. Cromwell wanted to rebuild England after the war but Parliament would dismiss his policies outright because there were factions within that had their own agendas and ideas about what a post-Monarchy England should look like.
He had won the war for Parliament and gave Parliament numerous concessions, the army was loyal to him and him alone, at that point Parliament was powerless, but he still gave them power and concessions. But then they kept pushing for more reforms that were irrelevant to what Cromwell was trying to do. He wanted to focus on stabilising and rebuilding, they wanted to work out the exact extent of their new found powers. Now Cromwell was a soldier and strategist first and foremost, he knew he didn’t have the influence or diplomatic skill to sway MPs over to his corner, and he knew England needed a united government more than ever, so he decided to dissolve Parliament. He didn’t take pride in that or enjoy his power, Cromwell was essentially forced into becoming a dictator by Parliament’s own greed and incompetence.
I think he’s so popular because people often wonder how history would have played out had Parliament been more cooperative
Adam Murphy
Then why'd he empower his son?
Joseph Bennett
Ragnar lodbrok my ancestor
Ian Cox
Towards the end of his life the only person he could trust was his son, the MPs of the time were more concerned with giving themselves more powers and money than they were with setting up a system that worked for the country. His son was supposed to carry on his work but he wasn’t skilled enough to outmanouver the royalist and merchant MPs after Cromwell’s death.