Indeed - and if what you asked for, and bought, was 'a switch with a neon', it's pretty likely that what you would get would be a DP switch.
It will.
It would probably work, but it's technically not allowed to deliberately design to use a CPC ('earth') to carry current (other than under fault conditions), so I very much doubt that you would/could find a single pole switch which used that approach.
This is the kind of suggestion which should never be made on a DIY forum.
I don't recall explicitly 'suggesting' that (that the connections had been altered), but I suppose it would have to be true, since the neon in a DP switch would come connected between the (load side) N & L, rather than across one pole of the switch.
That's what I said - and, when moved as we are speculating, it would result in the 'reverse behaviour' of the neon that the OP described.
Some confusion in this thread. As I see it OP has done this:
As you say, whatever anyone might think, he can't have done just that, since the neon would then never have lit.
If the OP had done that already (adding the link you show in red), I would not have expected him to be asking this, would you? ....
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