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So she means she copied in her own team by mistake. She needs to go so I can watch BBC politics shows again. But knowing them, they will probably replace her with Fiona Bruce.
Main reason is secularism, even one far right no one is religious. With no religion some arguments simply don't exist (through I do have some concerns about getting rid of granny so you can afford your own home)
Laura Kuenssberg is a problem. However, Alastair Campbell is never the solution. That's just replacing one client journo hack with another. We don't need to hear from Boris Johnson anyway. Let him go plug his book on Loose Women or Graham Norton or something.
Conservatives in this country would love for this to pass into law, Then adjust rules to allow assisted dying to enforced dying. If your poor, On benefits, Living in a high cost to the state area, Old, Financially inactive, Wrong religion or colour or any other conditions that conservative and Labour politicians and supporters don't like... They will ask "Are you doing everything for the country, Have you thought about suicide" The rich conservatives think they are worth thousands of the poorest people in society , This potential change to the law would be the first step to letting them play judge,jury and executioner.
I've nursed too many people who would have benefitted from assisted dying to not support the discussion here. When you have people begging you to end the suffering for them (including my own grandmother), it gives you a different perspective.
This literally just happened where I live in British Columbia Canada. The sitting opposition stood down all the candidates and suspended their campaign for our version of Reform UK nutters. Really worth a look and has created a meme, Doing a Falcon (after the leader) when someone does the most catastrophic self immolation politically.
The high energy bills are a stealth tax. The energy companies fleece you, £1000 plus per british household - then the government applys a windfall tax to the energy companies!!! Kerching!!!😂 Loads of dosh!!!😂
Tories turned into Republicans. Oppose absolutely everything on the grounds that the other party said it and to hell with the consequences. Utterly stupid tribalism.
I am old enough to remember a family friend who was very old and dying in pain died at home. My mother was asked by his wife to help clean his body immediately after he died. When she came home I asked how he had died and she matter of factly said the Dr had given him an injection (over morphined) when asked by the wife to do so. Neither her, nor my father thought it was unusual or unkind, or wrong. I therefore never thought much of it either, but knowing the man he would have asked for it himself I am sure.
On the one hand, I agree that there are some medical situations so bad that helping someone to die is the only reasonable, rational, merciful response. On the other hand, the medical community is not free of bad actors - Shipman and Letby being the obvious examples in the UK. To make it work, therefore, a proper discussion of facts and thresholds and safeguards is essential. Perhaps the politicians involved are thinking 'someday, it could be me'. Which they should.
Allowing assisted dying will result in the vulnerable being coerced into it. Remember, it may be ok in the Netherlands , but here in the UK, the country is run by unscrupulous capitalists in the City of London. Be assured, they will welcome the opportunity to get rid of the vulnerable who provide them with no money and incur upon them a significant cost.
To me, it is a simple bodily autonomy question. It is my body, my life, if I choose to terminate it then that is my choice. But safeguards must be in place to avoid undue pressure.
If you kept an animal the way some people are left you would be prosecuted so this bill has to go through on the cleverly island deal - front page of the mail today blaming Starmar
With the vote ten years ago vs the reception for the bill now, what has changed is who the MPs in Parliament are. I don't know the percentage but relatively few who are MPs in 2024 were MPs in 2014/15. Including the 2015 general election there have been four general elections, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024. That is a lot of turnover for such a short political period.
A similar piece of legislation is in preparation at Holyrood. The last obstacle (apart from the vote ) is securing confirmation from the UK Government about devolving powers to allow the prescription of the necessary drugs. It is interesting that I have not seen a word in the UK press about this.
It’s the people who have a health condition who do live in pain but are alive and want to be who I worry about. Will it become expected to not live to ease the burden on society?
That's where making sure appropriate safeguards are in place are paramount. Your scenario should never *be* an option because it should be the person themselves to take that decision. There are other countries that have agreed to assisted dying laws that (hopefully) our Parliament will look at and learn from.
Pain isn't the only concern for many elderly people, we also have a fear of losing our dignity and independence. After one reaches a certain age, death isn't the problem as most of us have come to accept its inevitability; it's the manner of that death that worries us.
Always been in favour of this. Had this Argument many years ago and was told this argument is for the future, well the future is now, and there seems a more reasoned approach to the subject. As long as the person has made it clear before hand that they have no objections and safeguards/lines are in place which CANNOT be crossed then why not. To die alone and in great pain is something I would not wish on anyone, and some of the palliative care is quite barbaric in this modern day, We put down Animals who are beyond repair or living in pain, why not humans.
I don't disagree as long as thire are safe guards in place, more than one expert opinion, no pressure from families accepted, consultation with the person when they caperable, to understand their wishes.
I know that in the past, doctors did 'assist' but that was in extremis and knowing the patient well...something that hardly exists now. With the present state of the NHS assistance is even more vital. The legal necessity to keep life going at all costs seems crazy. I took my dog to be put to sleep and it still breaks my heart but it could not go on as the poor animal was.
I'd write to my MP about it, but he's his time travelling the country tying top become leader of the conservative party, despite admitting to several corrupt practices. But it seem to me that waiting 'til honest Bob is leader before slaughtering him might be funnier.
I am dying slowly and brutally from a rare and extremely painful terminal condition. I have been in steadily increasing pain for more than 20 years. I can still, just, type, but in an unknown number of months I will be paralysed, including my vocal cords and eye muscles which means that I will not even be able to use eye-gaze technology to communicate. My intellect and conscious will still be fully functional and I shall be able to see and hear, just not communicate my wishes. I want my beautiful, wonderful, serene and forgiving wife to be protected from prosecution when she turns off the power to my breathing assistance machine, which we have already agreed that she will do when I have been unable to communicate anything meaningful for 48 hours. As of now, I am forced to consider doing it myself while I still can, likely to be months or even years before my preferred time, just to protect her. Please give me life and let me make my own decisions and arrangements because I am a person not an unfeeling machine.
I am so sorry. I would wish for you and your wife, what I would wish for myself. The chance to choose and say goodbye with dignity and with love. I hope that is the case for you.
This. The hypocritical 'euthanasia' that exists in many countries is a pain in itself. You have to go beg from several doctors and the legal system/the state for permission. Where the hell do they get that arrogance from? Proper real self choice would be to walk into a hospital declaring "I've had enough" and being pointed to the waiting room of the euthanasia ward. Anything less is a scam.
Make palliative care better, definately. Allowing people to choose to die with dignity, why not? Safeguards to ensure that there is no coercion, definately? Allowing people to die wih their loved ones around them, why not.
Free votes such as this one often demonstrate the true power of democracy, the same judgment applies to our court jury system. Democracy turns rancid whenever political parties force their members to vote a certain way, especially when those parties are receiving large financial donations from vested interests. I congratulate the leaders decision to go with a free vote on this issue, it's a very emotional and very complex decision to make.
