It depends what you mean by resigned voluntarily though.
If you're definitely going to be sacked (everyone knows it), then it's just politeness to resign. It's voluntary in the sense that you are volunteering to be polite about it, but you are not going to be doing the job any more either way so the resignation is forced.
Ultimately there is no difference. She would be just as free to get another job in government later if she was sacked, although perhaps marginally less likely to be offered it by a colleague due to a possible perceived risk of being a boat rocker if things don't go your way.
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It's the disparity between normal life and Westminster that I find most galling.
If you meet an old friend who works for a competitor and let slip a few trade secrets you expect to be called in front of the management and if you're very, very lucky you'll be given the chance to come clean and apologise rather than be dismissed on the spot.
If you then squander that chance for contrition and it's later found out that you gave them the special sauce recipe as well then any other employer would have you out of the door faster than you can say P45. I don't think I'm being especially harsh in thinking that being shown clemency and essentially throwing it in their face should have real consequences, like having the whip withdrawn. We see the same sort of thing happening in board rooms the world over where executives, having royally fucked up, get a nice pay-off and a friendly handshake.
We can agree to disagree about sacking vs. compulsory resignation, but surely you can see why many people are annoyed when politicians do things like this and seem to get off scot-free.
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Yeah it's pretty galling.
But there's been a long history of this sort of thing, and what can really be done about it? People forget about stuff after a while and you can come back to the table... that's human nature.
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If I remember correctly
The resignation often comes after a sacking and legally it is the resignation that is used as the reason. Something to do with the fact that a sacking has to be in writing whereas a resignation is verbal. Therefore it is possible that May sacked her and she saved face by resigning.
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 23:30,
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