Parliamentary Oath/Llw Seneddol
Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 11:35am
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22 MPs have signed the following Early Day Motion to propose an optional alternative Oath of Allegiance to their constituents. I wholeheartedly agree with this initiative, and only hope that it can be changed both in Westminster and at the National Assembly for Wales. I would advise all those who feel the same to lobby their MPs to sign this EDM.
PARLIAMENTARY OATH12.06.2008
EDM 1780Baker, Norman
That this House recognises that the principal duty of hon. Members is to represent their constituents in Parliament; also recognises that some hon. Members would prefer to swear an oath of allegiance to their constituents and the nation rather than the Monarch; and therefore calls on the Leader of the House to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce an optional alternative Parliamentary oath allowing hon. Members to swear allegiance to their constituents and the nation and to pledge to uphold the law rather than one pledging personal allegiance to the serving Monarch.
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Mae 22 ASau wedi arwyddo Datganiad Barn yn gofyn am y gallu i dyngu llw i’w hetholwyr yn lle tyngu llw i’r Frenhiniaeth. Rwyf yn cytuno gyda’r ymgyrch yma yn llawn, ac rwyf ond yn gobeithio y medrir yr un peth ddigwydd yn y Cynulliad. Byddaf yn ennyn y rheiny ohonoch sydd yn teimlo’n gryf am hwn i lobio eich AS lleol i arwyddo’r datganiad.
Wholeheartedly agree that the oath should be changed, but we could start closer to home by changing the oath for Police Officers which is the same in England and Wales and makes reference to allegiance to the Queen. In Scotland and Northern Ireland the Police service have a more inclusive oath that makes no mention of the monarchy. Let’s campaign for similar in Wales.
Bethan,
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If this is what a majority in parliament and the National Assembly wish, the question should be put the the voters as a referendum, in a democratic age it should be the voters that gives to their representatives their wishes on such an important issue as to an oath of allegiance.
stonemason
The referendum you would wish on the issue would be a UK wide one and seeing as the majority of voters would be in England suerly that would be an unfair advantage to the other nations involved.
Why should we have to give an oath of allegiance to some one whose family only in the preceding years before her, changed their name from their German one to the very epitomisingly English one of Windsor. This because of the anti German feeling that was prelevent in the Country at the time.
Any way what is wrong with pledging allegiance to your electorate,we put them there.
Any way what is wrong with pledging allegiance to your electorate,we put them there.
that sums it up precisely.
I agree. The oath is irrelvant in 2008!
Tried to read your blog post on this Arfon and its disappeared