On Tue, 26 May 2009, Mizter T wrote:

On May 26, 5:06*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2009, David Cantrell wrote:

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:12:45PM +0100, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

David Cantrell wrote:
No, they're not allowed to. *That's because to take your seat at
Westminster you need to swear an oath of allegiance to the queen.
If they were to do so they would obviously be lieing.

Wrong. Avowed republicans can and do take the oath

Not honestly they can't.

So?

Tony Banks has been mentioned as someone who took the oath with his
fingers crossed, and happily served as an MP afterwards. He was happy to
do it, and the Commons authorities were happy for him to do it. If Sinn
Fein were actually interested in being MPs, they could do it too.

Sinn Fein are deeply interested in being MPs, or rather TDs - but in an
Assembly of 'all-Ireland', not in Westminster.

Well they should have read the forms a bit more carefully before standing,
then!

tom

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