Kim and Charlie Swan will fight on as United Bermuda Party MPs even though there’s little else left of the party other than hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt.The only officer thought to still be in place yesterday was lawyer Ed Bailey, who is said to retain a treasury role a week after officials formally announced the party’s closure in a Bermuda Sun advert.Former Senator Charlie Marshall, who is still a party member, claims the UBP is now saddled with a large sum of debt defectors had initially voted to take with them to the One Bermuda Alliance.Party leader Kim Swan, who was off Island when the advert was placed, said in an e-mail yesterday: “I continue to sit in Parliament and represent my constituency in accordance to the nomination paper I signed to become eligible for election. It read United Bermuda Party.”Charlie Swan said he’s still a UBP MP as that’s who he was elected to serve in a 2008 by-election, adding: “Those who placed the advert are either naive or not familiar with due process at executive and electoral levels. Or both.“They’ve voted with their feet, while those who elected us and them have to wait until the next election or by-election. Those who elected me have my respect.”The UBP voted to disband and join forces with the Bermuda Democratic Alliance, founding the OBA, at a meeting on May 3.Mr Marshall said during that meeting members agreed to transfer the UBP’s debt said to be hundreds of thousands of dollars from the 2007 general election campaign, day-to-day running of the party and consultants’ fees to the OBA.However, he said: “According to my information, the resolution passed on May 3 wasn’t entirely executed after everybody resigned.“I do know that part of the resolution was the debt would be passed on to the One Bermuda Alliance. I was there when it was voted on. That was part of the memo of understanding.“I don’t know who’s responsible for the debts, or whether the debts will be paid.”OBA Chairman Michael Fahy last night said that resolution failed because both Mr Swans and Mr Marshall had taken out a court injunction to block the merger.Mr Fahy, who was BDA chairman at the time, said: “I have no idea of the wording of whatever resolutions were passed by the UBP. The fact is the UBP did not merge with the BDA.“After all there was an injunction to prevent this of which Mr Marshall was a part. The UBP has two Members of Parliament. Simple as that. This stuff simply distracts from the issues of the day. The OBA have been putting forward solutions to the very real problems facing Bermuda. UBP debt is not one of them.”Sources close to the UBP named Mr Marshall as one of a handful of loyalists hoping the 47-year-old party, which won eight elections from 1968 to 1998, can survive against the odds.But yesterday Mr Marshall conceded the UBP might not be around to create a three-horse race at the next election.“You have got to think what’s best for Bermuda. Is it right to have a third party and split the vote? I don’t know,” he said.Mr Marshall, whose membership runs out later this year, remained critical of his former colleagues, saying: “We were left in the lurch. Those guys took the easy way out.”Former MP Erwin Adderley, who was rolled out as the UBP’s candidate for Pembroke West last summer, said he had garnered most of his information from the media.“You have come to the wrong man. I don’t know what’s going on,” he said.“What happens if the UBP is disbanded? I don’t know. All sorts of discussions have taken place without anyone understanding the consequences of those discussions.”Mr Adderley’s sister Jeanne Atherden, who was UBP chairman and Senator until its dying days, made the announcement the party would join forces with the BDA after the May 3 meeting.That night, Ms Atherden told the media the OBA would represent a unified Opposition and called for members of the public to get involved. Since then she is understood to have disappeared from the political scene altogether.Mr Adderley said he didn’t know if his sister was still involved with either Opposition party, saying: “We are not doing a whole lot of talking, I’ll tell you that.”Of his own future, Mr Adderley said: “I’m still weighing the options.”Ms Atherden and Mr Bailey did not respond to messages yesterday.Useful websites: www.oba.bm.