No, Martin McGuinness is Not a Fit and Proper Person.

Since I’ve always thought Shaun Woodward a nasty little toad it’s reassuring to discover the man will do nothing to earn a reassessment. Is anyone surprised he is entirely relaxed about Martin McGuinness’s campaign for the Irish presidency? Of course not. why would ayone be surprised? As the dreadful Woodward made clear, speaking at a fringe event at the Labour conference, McGuinness’s campaign is in some sense the next step in the “peace process”. Yes, really, Martin McGuinness, mass murderer, is a “fit and proper” person to be Head of State. According to Woodward:

But what I can do as a fellow-member of the [Labour] race and somebody who was secretary of state for Northern Ireland is I think say something about, one, how far it demonstrates the success of the peace process and the political process that we could see the deputy first minister Martin McGuinness now being a candidate in these elections and it simply says to me: ‘Look how far the whole thing has come and look how far we have moved on and look at how we are living in the new era’.