Chartist Republic

An idea that a just gleamed from a post in EdT's 'Fight and Be Right", how could an English chartist based republic come about in the early 19th century? Many haughty patriots say a British Revolution was and is impossible, which is naturally hog-wash simply by the complexity of society and British history itself as an example.

So my PoD will be May 19th 1819, when the Duchess of Kent, in child birth tragically looses her unnamed baby girl...

Things to consider:
Peterloo
The Cato Street Conspiracy
Post-War Depression
Secret Police
Anti-Corn Law Movement
Catholic Emanicaption & Non-Conformism
Outdated Parliamentary Rep. (pre-1832, 158 voters controlled HALF of MP seats! :eek:)
Concert of Europe/Holy Alliance
Ultra Toryism
The English and Scottish Jacobins
Luddites
Slavery
Canadian radicalism
The Six Acts (the Anti-Terror Laws of their day)
Industrial Revolution
Hanover

Im going to try and sort out these countless threads into a bare TL but what do people think, what do you think these issues and others would do to effect a possible British Revolution?
 
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Something I suggested in another thread was, Napoleon successfully invades and holds England.

Then, either he dies earlier, or Napoleon II isn't very capable or dies early;
Napoleon's empire begins to crumble, the French are kicked out of England...would that kind of upheaval make a Chartist revolution easier?
 
I want to stay away from Napoleon, anyway Im sure after overthrowing an invading liberal Caesar, the Brits a more likely to turn to King and Country than Radicalism. No I'm looking for a more or less old fashioned Revolution against the domestic government.
 

maverick

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Ernest Augustus is always the popular choice round here for a renewed Tyranny in the United Kindgom...
 
I seem to recall an excellent TL that had the enthronement of Ernest Augustus as the central theme. Bloody minded political chaos (Irish risings, political authoritarianism, you know, the usual "ATL to mess with stability") followed.

I think that Ernest's eventual trajectory was to end in some kind of republican revolt. The Industrial Revolution, with a twist.
 
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