http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_
of_Commons Since MPs are technically forbidden to resign (since they theoretically serve at the pleasure of their constituents), they need to “resign” via the legal manoeuvre of being given one of two fancifully-named jobs that are considered to be “an office of profit under the Crown,” which then disqulify them from being MPs. 20:22
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Gulfstream - Beebo (beebo.org):
… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_ of_CommonsSince MPs are technically forbidden to resign (since they theoretically serve at the pleasure of their constituents), they need to “resign” via the legal manoeuvre of being given one of two fancifully-named jobs that are considered to be …
Gulfstream - Beebo (beebo.org):
… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_ of_CommonsSince MPs are technically forbidden to resign (since they theoretically serve at the pleasure of their constituents), they need to “resign” via the legal manoeuvre of being given one of two fancifully-named jobs that are considered to be …
Gulfstream - Beebo (beebo.org):
… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons …
The Croydonian (croydonian.blogspot.com):
… further mulling, but I will start with the big one: 1 - Gordon Brown to resign the prime ministership, and to apply to be the Steward and Bailiff of Her Majesty's Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in the county of Buckingham (The Chiltern Hundreds). Further he will offer a lengthy apology to the nation and to the better man (yes, I did just write that) he plotted and connived against for years, refuse a pension, any offers for his memoirs and then disappear from public life. By way of making …
Joel's Blog (aufrecht.org):
… said you were asked to serve in Qatar. Does this mean that you didn't request an ambassadorship? Does it mean that the administration wanted a political operative, rather than a career ambassador, in Qatar? If so, why? (Wikipediaing sinecure leads tothis very interesting pagethat could serve as the basis of a great, if long-winded, naming convention.) Many of your google hits are from somebody named "Captain Eric May" and an organization called the "Ghost Brigades", having something to do with 9/11 conspiracy theories. …
telescreen.org (vidiot.typepad.com):
… of my fellow Angophiles (not to mention any actual British readers I may have), but did you know that a Member of the British House of Commons cannot resign? MPs are apparently legally prohibited from doing so, under a 17th-century law. Quoting fromWikipedia …
telescreen.org (vidiot.typepad.com):
… of my fellow Angophiles (not to mention any actual British readers I may have), but did you know that a Member of the British House of Commons cannot resign? MPs are apparently legally prohibited from doing so, under a 17th-century law. Quoting fromWikipedia …
It hurts my head like a hundred dogs (poppycocteau.livejournal.com):
… Resignation from the British House of Commons</s> So now teh Blair is Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds (the cooler one because referenced by Anthony Trollope), and Peter Mandelson is still Steward of the Manor of Northstead. Both offices having …
A Conservative's blog (aconservatives.blogspot.com):
… One of the interesting curiosities of the House of Commons is thatan MP can't resign …
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