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Petition update, 29 July 2009

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The 'Challenge the Oath' campaign is calling for an alternative oath to be introduced for those who value democracy over hereditary monarchy.

Many people in this country are effectively forced to take insincere oaths of allegiance to an institution they do not support.

We believe a legal requirement to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen is discriminatory and unjust. By forcing people to take oaths they do not truly believe we devalue and undermine their importance. We believe there should be a choice of oath for republicans.

Current signatories

Graham Smith, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• J RICHARDS
• clare mercer
• Mervyn kaye
• gareth payne
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Lynsey Nelson
• Melvin Wagstaff
• Nat Queen
• Jean Garrett
• Monika Cenarska
• John Cross
• Rob Levy
• lisa sayer
• James Gray
• Paul Nicholas Bellamy
• Benjamin John Murray
• John McCallum
• Steve Smedley
• Andrew Donelan
• Trevor Scott
• Roger W Kimber
• W. Hodgetts
• Graham LEES
• Ian Skinner
• Paul Herwin
• Edward Halsted
• Richard Tingle
• paul edmondson
• Stephen Harness
• Graham Cheshire
• Pamela Roberts
• Stan Booth
• Robbie Jacobs
• Louis Diaz
• Graeme Wright
• Rebecca Pearce
• Chris Gale
• Andrew Turvey
• Andrew Miller
• Stuart Peters
• Kathleen Bell
• Steve Bassett
• Cathy Bryant
• Christopher Jones
• Alexander Bennett
• Steve Schollar
• Brian Dempsey
• Sam Allen
• Darrin Tate
• Jago Parker
• Vicki Perry
• Ben Davolls
• Simon Gould
• Dave Godfrey
• Douglas Cowan
• Dave Allison
• Kiall Clark
• Nick Palmer
• Neil Macpherson
• Matthew Hibbert
• Thomas Hibbert
• Eben van der Westhuizen
• Chris Clark
• Helen Mc Avoy
• I do not sign this petition! I have also signed a few times (ok, more than a few) with fake names.
• Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth
• M Taylor
• Trevor Cast
• Sinead Lawrence
• Mr C S Kershaw
• stephen price
• John Kingshott
• Martin Walker
• Elizabeth Sumner
• haydn john latham
• Thomas Howell
• Gerard Braybrook
• Kate Joester
• Frank Friedmann
• Andrew Law
• Mike Cotgreave
• brian.binnersley
• doreen bolam
• Simon Herdson
• Dympna Le Rasle
• Andrew Main
• Brian Wainwright
• James Collins
• Gerard Mulholland
• Norman Jamieson
• David Bishop
• Paul Huxtable
• Elizabeth Phillips
• Martyn Post
• Alan Ferguson
• John Holmes
• Stephen Robertson
• Paul Herriott
• Jamie Beckwith
• Andrew Waldron
• mike fraser
• J Campbell
• Andrew Michael Plant
• john meara
• Ruxandra Knight
• Tristan Alexander-Watts
• Stefan Harry Carapiet
• Daniel Lawrence
• Nick Cloy
• Richard Fitzhenry
• Kirsty Catling
• Steven Taylor
• Liam Reilly
• Andrew Burns
• Jeremy Cooper
• Kyle Plumridge
• Thomas Randall
• Paul Simon Case
• Sarah Lavender
• Andrew Thompson
• Barry McCulloch
• Tom Griffin
• John Flemming
• Mark Horn
• Gail Brand
• Roger Kitsis
• Robert Henderson
• Arthur Hayles
• Philip Smith
• Andrew Pettigrew
• Alexander Ryland
• Arthur Haynes
• Janet Franck
• Stewart Faith
• Richard Anthony Fagence
• Roy McLellan
• Robert Marshall
• Dr John David Brunton
• Ray Ashworth
• David Handley
• Graeme Lambert
• Alan O'Flynn
• Andrew Room
• Joe Gerlach
• Liam Smith
• Mark Calder
• Lewis Smith
• Owen Blacker
• Allegiance to constituents not party whips
• Shantanu Om Puri
• Cllr Vince Maple
• Andrew McGarrigle
• Queen Elizabeth II
• Prince Charles
• John Downes
• John Weir
• Jack Kenning
• Iain Carr
• Jonathan Hinder
• Oliver Maguire
• Peter Hall
• Graham skinner
• Darren Maxwell
• George A Crawford
• Peter John Kitson
• brian fitzsimons
• Gareth Davies
• David MacDonald
• John
• Bill Runacre
• Nick Blackshaw
• Richard Brennan
• Keith Pender
• James McIntosh
• Gabriel Webber
• Mark Benson
• Michael Ellison
• Andrew MacDonald
• Andy Milner
• Dan Cook
• Christopher Helm
• Jonathan Trigell
• Jonathan Pringle
• Julia Whysall
• Nick Wilde
• Daniel Robson
• Frederick Chapman
• Jeremy Howard
• Helen S Neville
• Nathan Tindle
• Richard Wentford
• Jack Longland
• richard datchler
• Gareth Hughes
• John Norton
• Ben Parish
• Gerard Moore
• Andrew Balmbra
• Daphne Russell
• John Dwyer
• Richard O'Connor
• Patrick Briggs
• Daniel Marriott
• rob smith
• Richard Carling
• David Walters
• Lee McLoughlin
• David fearnley
• Steve Starling
• Peter Terribili
• Phil Hodgson
• B Henderson
• Andy Smith
• Stephen Williams
• Michael Huddlestone
• Cal-Ryan Mc Donagh
• Stewart Pettigrew
• Greg Nickson
• Guy Lovejoy
• Bill Carruthers
• Anna Comboni
• Theo van de Bilt
• Allegiance to my comrades, not to a thieving, sectarian, elitist family.
• Alan Hume
• Brian Tracey
• niall mcreynolds
• Imogen Howson
• Tony. Richardson
• Geoffrey Copeland
• Andrew Hamm
• Barry Bentham
• Dallas Slater
• John McGowan
• Sam Corkindale
• Carl Drewery
• Thomas Revell
• Ryan Morrison
• Stephen Ronald Bates
• Matthew Martin Whaley
• Darrin tate
• Roger Oakden
• Jamie White
• Sebastian Owen Browne
• Andrew Byrne
• Ian Kane
• Jon Chedgzoy
• Nadia Bessos
• Peter Windridge
• Desmond Lynch
• Cecily Gabriel-Pullen
• Graham Potts
• Brian winson
• Harry Ward
• Kris Christmann
• Marjory Smith
• Andrew Burchell
• Maureen J Wallace
• Simon Harris-Dack
• John Sillince
• Janetta Willis
• terry moriarty
• SUSAN DARTON
• Stuart Dewar
• stacey shepherd
• Michael Barry
• Nick Hall
• Paul Lush
• Matt Devine
• Neil McCart
• c hughes
• Roger Dennis
• Sophie Stewart-Bloch
• Sam White
• Stevie Twomey
• ian dale
• James Enock Ex Army
• Phillip Nicholls
• Frank Friedmann
• Colin Burbidge