🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4m6thi$66v@mirv.unsw.edu.au> rory@solution.maths.unsw.edu.au (Rory 
Campbell) writes:

>In article <ljh655.28.000DF76C@anugpo.anu.edu.au>, ljh655@anugpo.anu.edu.au (Lubosh) writes:
>|> I like the cartoon in The Australian yesterday (Monday 29 April 1996) showing 
>|> Paul Keating enacting his departure from politics "with honour".
>|> It reminded me of the discussion last year, and suggestions from the minor 
>|> parties not to allow MPs to resign from the service in the Parliament at will. 
>|> I think the proposal was to make them pay for the cost of the by-election (or 
>|> at least a part of it). Is this still going to happen, or can someone just 
>|> decide a few weeks after being elected that he doesn't really want to serve 
>|> the people who elected him after all ?!?
>|> Lubosh
>|> 

>It's a job plain and simple.  Like any other job you can quit when you
>want to.
Two points of disagreement:
1. It's not a job "plain and simple". It is an office into which a person has 
to be elected to.

2. The term of office is known beforehand, and in my 
opinion is a "fixed term contract". If one "pretends" (who was the pretender 
then???) to be ready to fulfil the requirements of that contract and then 
breaches the terms for no reason other than "there are better things to do" 
they should pay a penalty.

Lubosh