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In 1988, a retired police officer found Cyril Smith, British MP with 144 accusations of child molestation and abuse, in a home with a sex offender and two drunk teenage boys. He was threatened to be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Nothing happened.

In 1988, a retired police officer found Cyril Smith, British MP with 144 accusations of child molestation and abuse, in a home with a sex offender and two drunk teenage boys. The officer was threatened to be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act by the UK government. Nothing happened.

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1. In the early 1980s, a British MP made serious allegations of paedophilia in the British Political classes and the dossier was "lost" by the Government.

2. A British MP tried to fake his own death, and was only discovered in Australia after being mistaken for another famous missing person. He was later found to be a Czech spy and died from a heart attack he suffered on live TV.

3. A British MP candidate changed his name by deed poll to "None Of The Above X" so it appears on the ballot that way.

4. It illegal to resign from the British Parliament. It is also illegal to hold a for profit position for the Crown and also be a Member of Parliament. MPs resign by "Taking the Chiltern Hundreds." They are appointed to a meaningless Crown for profit post, which results in the MP's resignation.

5. Sir Dingle Foot, British MP, died in 1978 after choking on a bone in a chicken sandwich. Also, someone was actually named Dingle Foot.

6. Members of the British Parliament are technically not able to resign. The workaround is that an MP who wishes to resign is assigned an effectively fictional office that disqualifies them from being an MP.

7. A British MP was elected 83 days after his death in the West Indies due to a delay in communications.

8. The Westminster pedophile dossier. Compiled by MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1984, it provided evidence of a pedophile ring operating within the British government. It has been missing since 2013. Lead investigators assigned to discover the whereabouts of the dossier resigned after one year.

9. A unconscious British MP who had a heart attack hours before, was still able to cast a vote via "proxy" as his voting intention was clear and his Heart monitor still showed a weak rhythm.

10. George first became a "minister of parliament" (MP), which is the elected officials in the United Kingdom's House of Commons, on April 10, 1890. He the representative for the Caernarfon Boroughs district of Caernarfon, Wales. He was a member of the Liberal Party.

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In British Government, clapping or a round of applause is strictly forbidden during parliamentary debates. Which is why MP's wave order papers, shout, hurl abuse across the Chamber, join in with frankly weird displays of mass groaning or do that elongated "hear, hear" thing.

Alfred Dobbs, a British MP who died 1 day after being elected whilst avoiding a child on the road. His successor, Patrick Walker, held the seat in parliament for 19 years. - source

Winston Churchill had a particularly fractious relationship with the first British female MP, Nancy Astor. During a disagreement, Astor said "Sir, if you were my husband I would put poison in your coffee" to which Churchill quipped "Maddame, if you were my wife, I would drink it". - source

British MP Airey Neave was assassinated by the INLA in 1979, had escaped from Colditz in WWII, and served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg. There is a theory that he was killed by MI6 agents working with the CIA.

The Hostage MP, which is a British politician that is taken hostage before the Queen goes to Parliament during the State Opening of Parliament. They are released once the monarch is returned safely. - source

It is constitutionally impossible for a British MP to resign. If an MP wants to vacate his office, he is instead transferred to one of two nominal, archaic positions: Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, or of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham.

A British MP cannot resign but instead must be appointed to one of two Crown offices by the Speaker of the House of Commons, causing their seat to become vacant.

The Black Rod walks toward the door of the Commons on the British Parliament's opening, the door is slammed in his face to convey the House's independence, he walks in and summons the Commoners to the Queen's speech, and Labour MP Dennis Skinner always heckles the ceremony by making a joke.