Recess Monkey is amused to note that 53 people have signed up to the clever facility on www.theyworkforyou.com that alerts you by email whenever an MP speaks in parliament - in order to be notified when Sinn Fein MP Gerry Adams speaks.
Of course, due to the requirement that MPs pledge allegiance to the Queen on taking their seats in parliament, Gerry has never spoken in the commons, despite being elected in 1997.
In fact, if Adams did speak in Parliament, you probably wouldn’t need to be alerted by email as I suspect it would be covered by every media outlet.
Some very optimistic people are also waiting to see if the other Sinn Fein MPS - Martin McGuinness, Michelle Gildernew, Pat Doherty and Conor Murphy are about to pledge allegiance to the Queen any time soon.
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TheyWorkForYou also covers (and sends email alerts for) the Northern Ireland Assembly, where he speaks regularly, and so those 53 people do get emails from the site.
Matthew said this on April 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pm