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Sinn Fein refuse to take their seats as they will not take the Parliamentary oath of allegiance to The Queen. Because of this they cannot take their seats but they still claim their Parliamentary Salaries, Expenses, Staff and Offices and all the other perks of being a Member of Parliament (I would suspect the free bars and restaurants at Westminster would be very popular).
Anyway they don't seem to have a problem being paid in Sterling and accepting a currency with the Queens's head on it so their (ahem) principles are very selective. |
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Are not most of their MPs also MLAs for same constituencies? Claiming expenses twice?
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Yes they are also MLA's in NI and although they collapsed the institution thay still claim full salaries, expenses, staff, offices etc.
Nice work if you can get it |
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In the past few years most if not all MP's are now separate from MLA's. I'm almost sure every one of the DUP MP's are, not sure about Sinn Fein (now there are only 2 party's in NI.)
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Vidou - Ovalman may know better, but the Sinn Fein issue is a bit more complicated that you state. The SF constitution going back nearly 100 years dictates that they cannot participate in any House of Commons activities. Not sure it is still valid, but didn't Betty Boothroyd reduce SF MP's status allowing them only the same facilities as would be allowed to a member of the public. Someone will have the facts but I am pretty sure it is nothing like as simple as you state.
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The British government refuses to pay Sinn Féin MPs our salaries and other grants which all other Westminster MPs receive. Over the last five years this has amounted to almost £2 million.
Lifted that from the Sinn fein site. |
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blackbarn they will not participate because they will not take the Oath of Allegiance. They are very similar to IS in that they seek to impose their extremist views on all by any means
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