The leader of the right-wing nationalist Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland’s National Assembly on Friday resigned following his arrest for a “non-recent sexual offences,” which in American means “non-recent sexual offenses,” and in plainer American means it did not happen recently but we don’t really know where the line drawn between recent and non-recent.
Anyway, typically of the British media and justice system the BBC’s reporting on the arrest and subsequent resignation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP contains no details of the allegations against him other than that an unnamed 57 year-old woman had been charged with “aiding and abetting additional offences.” However that he’s a conservative and a scumbag is enough for us to pick it up.
Donaldson’s apparent downfall should also be a welcome development to the Catholic whiskey drinkers in our audience as by nature of his party he is definitely not a Jameson kind of guy.