Just fancy that!
I wrote here about the limits of the Wilson Doctrine and said
It’s not clear, equally, whether the Wilson doctrine would apply to Gerry Adams, Martin McGuiness, Michelle Gildernew, Conor Murphy and Pat Doherty (the Sinn Féin MPs who have not taken an oath of allegiance and so are barred from sitting at Westminster).
Imagine my surprise to read that one Roy McShane, a driver for Sinn Fein and the IRA, was apparently spying on members of those organisations, including Sinn Fein MPs. The holes in the Wilson Doctrine are many and numerous; the biggest problem with it, though, is that it gives people an unjustified sense of safety. That is one of the problem with rule by convention - it’s never clear what the convention is.
xD.
