You're asking if they have, not whether they can be, which is the issue. I've no idea of whether one has. Clegg's wife and kids are Catholics, by the way, though he professes to be an atheist.
In fairness you alluded that having a Catholic in power would be a problem in NI. I pointed out that a Catholic is in power in NI and a Catholic has never been in power at Westminister.
That wasn't what I meant. I suggested that someone who was openly Catholic would lose some votes because of it, especially in certain areas.
I said something similar and got called racist. If both your parents are Asian then you can't be English but can be British.
I don't think you're being racist but i don't agree - my mum and dad are Irish but I regard myself as English. All down to interpretation i suppose but if you prove me wrong I'll call you a ****, sorry, accept it graciously..
Being English is in your blood, you can live here all your life but if neither parent is English then imo you aren't English.
Thanks for the insults. You can be British by birth in the UK, or in a place still a British colony; by naturalisation in the UK or a British colony; by registration as a citizen of the UK and Colonies by legislate descent from a father to whom the previous conditions applied.
Yet you're arguing a completely different set of rules apply to being English. So, in other words, a man born in England to German/Bosnian/Turkish/etc parents can never be called English, but can claim to be British, despite his only qualifying factor being that he was born in a little part of Britain called England.
Exactly. Being English is completely different to being British. BTW - I don't consider myself to be English even though I was born here and my mum is white & English, so I have a little insight into this area before anyone thinks I'm some far right lunatic.
English isn't ethnicity either. When you fill in an equal opportunities form, it never has "English" as an option. It does have "White British" though.