17.12.04 Traditionen

Es enttäuscht mich immer wieder das es in Deutschland fast keine unterhaltsamen Traditionen gibt.
Diese etwa wäre eine wertvolle Ergänzung:
Resignation from the British House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Members of Parliament of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to resign. In order to circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used. Appointment to a "paid office under the Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP). Two such offices are used to allow MPs to effectively resign their seats:

* Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham and
* Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead

A number of offices have been used for this purpose historically, but only the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead are used today.

The offices are only nominally paid. Generally they are held until they are again used to effect the resignation of an MP. The Chiltern Hundreds is usually used alternately with the Manor of Northstead, which makes it possible for two members to resign at exactly the same time. When more than two MPs resign at a time, as for example happened when 15 Ulster Unionist MPs resigned on December 17, 1985, the resignations are in theory not simultaneous but instead spread throughout the day, with each member holding one of the offices for a short time. The holder can subsequently be re-elected to Parliament.

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