The other side is saying that the politician resigned his seat because he's going to run as a candidate from County Louth in the upcoming general election. He didn't ask for a job or the title of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
As it turns out, by resigning his seat in Westminster, Mr. Adams had to then be given a posh posting in accord with British law going back 400 years. That gives the DUP plenty of fodder to paint the man as a hypcrite, seeking a wage from the very country he claims he's not a citizen of.
The British, being so very protocol-oriented, would make no exception for Mr. Adams. England's Prime Minister declared before Parliament that Mr. Adams had agreed to become the baron of the Manor of Northstead, but he did qualify the announcement by explaining that it's the only way a Member of Parliament can resign.
Speaking on behalf of DUP loyalists everywhere, Nigel Dodds took advantage of Question Time to speechify and lambaste his hated nemesis. Gerry Adams has emigrated, Mr. Dodds chortled, because he's going to run for office in Ireland.
Gerry Adams, of course, has long held that he has always lived in Ireland, and just because some political chicanery created a border in the 1920s doesn't mean he's bound to recognize it. He didn't recognize the Crown as having authority over the Irish people either, and he never took his seat in the Commons.
'Resign' sounds like such a simple term, easy to understand. Apparently, for MPs who wish to step down, one word doesn't fit.
Who would have guessed that "Gerry Adams has accepted an office of profit under the Crown' would translate into 'Gerry Adams has resigned'? Isn't it all the English language that we're speaking?
Except for Gerry Adams, that is. He opened and closed his letter of resignation in Irish. Maybe that's where the error in translation occurred.
Go raibh maith agat, indeed.
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