Ulster on brink over Iris Robinson sex scandal
No one does a government sex scandal like the British Isles. We colonists are rookies. So, right now, Northern Ireland is in the midst of a delicate process to form a government independent of England that contains the Catholic and Protestant elements that have been at war since men wore ruffled collars and carried swords. Northern Ireland’s First Minister representing the Protestants is Peter Robinson. His wife, Iris Robinson, is a 60 year old Lawyer who is an Irish MP [Member of Parliment] and an evangelical anti-Gay crusader.
It seems that Iris had an affair with 19 year old Kirk McCambley, and that she borrowed £50,000 from two Developers and gave it to him to start a business. All of this became public when Iris made a suicide attempt. So the Minister’s job is compromised, the formation of the coalition government is up in the air, Iris is resigning her post in the Parliment, and Kirk McCambley’s business is thriving.
[…] in Northern Ireland last night involving the First Minister’s wife, Iris Robinson [so here’s to you Mrs. Robinson…], my mind was filled with memories of the conflicts in Northern Ireland. I arrived in the […]
The darkest aspect of this story is that Mrs Robinson first had an affair with Kirk’s father when he was alive, and promised to look after his son. In the context of this promise, she has behaved like a sexual predator with no respect for appropriate boundaries. Of course Kirk would have been delighted to pleasure such an old woman, but it was the responsibility of Mrs Robinson to clarify the boundaries. It is deeply saddening to see such moral poverty.