I absolutely support the idea of having modern art in central London, though I haven't liked any of the stuff that they've put on the fourth plinth so far.
In Trafalgar Square, with the surrounding buildings and the other monuments, however, I'd say that we need something in keeping with what's already there - a traditional, representational bronze statue of some kind of military geezer, preferably Georgian, preferably on a horse.
No-one's going to stump up for a new statue of some so-far unrecognised Napoleonic war general (Cornwallis or one of the other Generals from the Indian theatre in the 1790s or early 1800s), however, so Keith Park has some merit as a distinguished military man, and perhaps his part in saving London trumps the fact that he wouldn't (presumably) be on a horse, bewigged or frock coated.
This ought to be a campaign that everyone could get behind.
Sign up at:
http://www.sirkeithpark.com/petition.aspx