A fact from Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Westminster appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 August 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 2004, a group of Members of Parliament proposed melting down the statue of Oliver Cromwell(pictured) which had stood outside the Houses of Parliament for 105 years?
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"In 2004, a group of Members of Parliament including Tony Banks, proposed a motion that the statue should be removed and melted down. The move was not supported by all, and other MPs suggested that the statue should be moved somewhere else.[1]"
The citation given requires a subscription so I have not checked it but this claim seems very doubtful. I presume the cited article is similar to this which refers to an Early Day Motion 1172[2] in which case the wiki article gives far too much weight to a proposal backed by just a handful of MPs.
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