Assisted Suicide to Become Law as MPs Back Bill by 23 Votes
Assisted suicide is to be legalised after MPs backed Kim Leadbetter’s bill by just 23 votes despite warnings the NHS does not have capacity to provide death services as well as medical services. The Telegraph has more.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was supported by 314 votes to 291, a majority of 23, as it cleared the Commons, paving the way for assisted dying services to be introduced by the end of the decade.
The legislation will now go to the House of Lords for further scrutiny but the decision by MPs to give the Bill its third reading means it is now almost guaranteed to make it onto the statute book and become law.
The bill will allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales, with fewer than six months to live, to apply for an assisted death, subject to approval by two doctors and a panel featuring a social worker, senior legal figure and psychiatrist.
Critics of the legislation have warned its safeguards are not strong enough and vulnerable people could be coerced or feel pressured into ending their lives early.
The margin of victory was significantly smaller than it was in November last year when MPs backed the Bill in principle by 330 votes to 275, a majority of 55.
Sir Keir Starmer voted in favour of the Bill but other Cabinet heavyweights, including Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner, voted against.
In the debate, Labour MP and former shadow minister for disabled people Vicky Foxcroft highlighted opposition from disabled people, who are among those most likely to experience pressure and coercion in relation to ending their lives.
I don’t claim that every disabled person opposes assisted dying but I do claim that the vast majority of disabled people and their organisations oppose it.
They need the health and social care system fixing first. They want us as parliamentarians to assist them to live, not to die.
Conservative former home secretary Sir James Cleverly highlighted “the number of professional bodies which… are opposed to the provisions within this bill” and the medical staff who say the NHS does not have capacity for providing assisted suicide as well as medical care.
Are members and right honourable members genuinely happy to write the blank cheque that this bill demands? Because it is normal for the Secretary of State of a Government department to decide when a piece of legislation comes into force and they make that decision based on the state’s ability to deliver that legislation.
Commencement dates matter, they are not just some arbitrary date on a piece of paper and I understand the desire of people to make sure this can’t be lost down the back of the sofa when it comes to government work but when people upon whom we rely to deliver this say they are not ready and they don’t feel they will be ready, they don’t have enough people, they don’t have enough capacity, they will have to take resource from current provisions to move across to this provision which will be driven by a statutory requirement and a locked in commencement date, we should listen.
We should listen and if the people who are going to make this work and work as well as we hope it will if it becomes legislation say that they are not confident that they can make it happen, we should be very, very careful about demanding that they prioritise this and that is what this legislation says.
Sir Jeremy Wright, the Tory former attorney general, said legalising assisted dying would “send a signal that society, through Parliament, believes that something that we used to think was unacceptable is now acceptable, in this case that assisting someone to die is now something of which we approve”.
I believe that is bound to have an impact on those who are in great distress at the end of their lives, who may already be thinking it would be better if they were out of the way.
I do not want to live in a society where anyone, including the terminally ill, is encouraged in the belief that their lives are not valuable and valued to their very last moments. I fear that this bill, though not its intent, brings such a society closer and that is why I cannot support it.
This is what packing the Commons with Labour MPs gets you.
Having said that, it wouldn’t have passed if 20 Tories, including Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, hadn’t backed it. Two Reform MPs – Richard Tice and Sarah Pochin – also voted to bring state-supported suicide to Britain, though Farage, Anderson and McMurdock opposed it.
Kemi voted against. But will the Tories commit to reversing it? Seems unlikely. Does Left-wing liberalisation ever get reversed by subsequent Conservative governments? Not that I’ve ever noticed.
Full MP voting information here.
Stop Press: Tory former Cabinet Minister Lord Harper has said it’s possible the bill may not “see the light of day”. He told the Mail: “It’s not a Government Bill and it wasn’t in anybody’s manifesto, so there is no constitutional reason why the Lords shouldn’t do its job properly and amend the Bill considerably if required.”
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Any shortage of NHS will soon be resolved as the old and sick are consigned to the morgue instead of the operating theatre. The potential bottleneck of doctors etc initially required to see off costly nuisance members of society will soon be overcome by the same efficiency measures adopted for abortions: pre-signed forms, cursory examinations and fast-track death.
Perhaps we will be able to have tattoos to show we have declined offers of early death so our relatives cannot be easily brow beaten by medics and state accountants.
Murder babies. Soon 2 year olds.
Murder the old and sick. Soon the depressed 40 year old.
Culling from both ends, soon the middle.
Death cult indeed.
‘The Age of Reason’ blah blah blah.
The age of death and a virtueless society.
White people are the majority users of abortion clinics I’ve seen it first hand, they want careers etc,not a baby. Black and ethnic types have many babies wether they like it or not and generally believe life is sacred, so less white babies and less white old people = less whites!
(Massive black african immigration on top of that = replacement!)
Asians cull girls.
Which groups pro rata commit the most crime? Black and ethnic by a long chalk, so why not bring back the death penalty? Strange how that isn’t inline for the statute books anytime soon
And, why a government so enamoured with death doesn’t vote on bringing back the death penalty? Why?..think which ethnicities commit the most crimes, in the US or UK for example.. that would make for very bad racial overtones! and would of course scupper the great
resetsorry replacement!What a God forsaken country we have allowed it to become, now legal to kill a baby up to the moment of birth, and legal to kill the old, the sick and no doubt soon the poor, the disabled and those who are inconvenient.
Led by a death cult in Parliament which strangely enough mirrors a prevalent religion in this country which worships death as opposed to life.
What next on our road to depravity will be legalised? I have said for a couple of years now, that we are being warmed up to accept that s3X with “consenting” children will be made legal, I predict that, that will be edging its sordid way on to the statute books.
There used to be Labour MPs who supported PIE but I think those still in Parliament are in the HoL.
Ben Habib wants to repeal every law since 1997.
He’s just copied that from English Patriot Rupert Lowe.
The Great Repeal Act Rupert Lowe MP – YouTube
Here’s a higher quality version:
Brewgaloo on X: “The Great Repeal Act @RupertLowe10, @RobertJenrick, and @DrDStarkeyCBE explain how to restore Great Britain. https://t.co/3gWVq8VOB0” / X
Rupert’s ideas and vigour should not be forgotten but he cannot achieve much as a solitary voice.
He ought to have known about the merits of cooperation.
From what I hear from insiders, not his style; happy to fall out and insist on getting what he wants rather than playing in a team
Perhaps he’s actually learning about the nature of political parties, then.
Great Britain managed to survive for centuries upon centuries without any political parties, which are a relatively recent invention.
A former chairman of Southampton FC. I rest my case 🙄
Irrelevant.
He is uncompromising, standing firm about what he believes, and that’s why people trust him and respect him, because they know he will not back down, or compromise, or betray their trust.
I agree with those who say he was driven out by ENVIOUS COLLEAGUES, in particular the new pair of owners of Reform.
It is ENVY, not money, that is the Root of All Evil.
Envy soon turns to hatred, which transforms into an obsessive desire to destroy and sometimes even kill the object of the envy.
That’s what White Genocide is all about: Envy.
“Base envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates the excellence it cannot reach.”
But the people are sick of politicians who compromise and backtrack! They are drawn to Rupert Lowe because he is UNCOMPROMISING about the things that matter most to the People. They respect him for NOT cooperating with the Globalist Agenda, and for boldly saying what most people really think. They don’t want to be forced to accept Third World Ethnic immigrants to represent them as their “leaders” in Britain’s government, judicial and every other area of British society. They remember how many times Nigel betrayed their trust, and continues to chop and change with the wind, first calling Tommy Robinson “scum”, calling Patriots “racists” and “bigots” and saying he wants nothing to do with them, and even hiring Communist Traitors to scrutinize every potential candidate for the merest hint of patriotic fervour, even if it was decades old, and to kick them out of the Reform party. And now Nigel pretends to care about the Pakistani Muslim Rape Gangs after denouncing Tommy, and others like Nick Griffin long before him, for trying to warn the People— trying to Defend British Children. That is why the People are waiting. Waiting for Rupert Lowe and other True, Courageous Patriots to form a… Read more »
Who exactly are these “assistants” who are to become state-sanctioned assassins? Are they to be licensed to kill?
To their enormous credit, many NHS doctors joined the protests against this Legal Murder bill, which will soon be changed to include teenagers, then children, then seamlessly blend in with the Infanticide bill, so people can kill off their relatives at any age.
Rather than Pride month, perhaps we could in future celebrate Died month?
Rainbows, or not?
So the intellectual pygmies that occupy the HoC have spoken. Rachel Thieves is no doubt totting up how much she can save on pensions. the useless NHS, social care and so on and so on.
However, what I’d like to know is when that self obsessed Rancid woman will be arranging her assisted death. Hopefully PDQ with a full camera crew so all who wish to can watch. Need to be sure it really woeks and all.
After the abortion vote and now this, wine o’clock is commencing early today.
Well done to Will Jones & the DS for using the true term “Assisted Suicide” instead of the deliberate “softening” new term “Assisted Dying”. And thanks for that illustration which encapsulates the full horror of all three scandals. Kim Leadbeater’s face should be photoshopped into the hood of the Grim Reaper.
Shocking that both Richard Tice and Sarah Pochin voted for this, as well as most of the Liberal Democrats, and that Olukemi Olufunto would also have voted for it, because she previously supported Assisted Suicide, if she hadn’t seen the public reaction against it and changed her mind.
May I point out that ALMOST ALL of the victims of the Rape Gangs, and ALMOST ALL of the people volunteering for Assisted Suicide, have been from The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group: Europeans = “White People”.
We are the real target.
Very disappointing that Reform strategically put a foot in both camps.
Yes, it’s jarring. Sarah Pochin gives me the creeps, but I really didn’t expect Richard Tice to stoop so low as to vote for this.
Independent Rupert Lowe joined those voting against it.
And all the Northern Ireland Unionists voted against it, God bless ’em!
In contrast, all but one of the Welsh Nationalists voted FOR helping the English top themselves.
Tice is really a clown. Full on retard for the Rona fascism and the stabby Nazism. Not surprised he wants to murder babies and kill the sick and old.
Dear Lord Young of Acton, and the members of the House of Lords, we call upon you to stop this depraved House of Commons bill in its tracks!
Definitely. Please assist it to commit suicide.
Carousel at 30 in Labour’s next manifesto?
Wow— Logan’s Run! I’d long forgotten that. I read a few years ago that Scandinavians forced everyone who reached the age of 70 to jump off a cliff, so as not to deplete the scarce winter food supplies of their tribe.
If we did that in the UK there’d be a lot of huge, shiny new mobility scooters left parked on the road near Beachy Head….perhaps one final parking ticket ‘afore ye go’?
There is a 104ft high folly near here, built by an eccentric, which displays this sign: “Anyone committing suicide from this tower does so at their own risk”
Nice one! 🙂
The state now has a legal way to kill you now.
To start with, it will be the terminally ill. Give it a few years, it will be extended to the old, the infirm, the depressed, the economically inactive, etc, etc.
The next thing that will happen is that gradually, via the mainstream media, BBC, and Guardian they will shift the tone to pressure and coercion, just like they did with the vaccines. (The unvaccinated are the problem. –> The economically inactive are the problem.)
Work until you are useful, pay your taxes, then we’ll finish you off.
Out of compassion, of course.
I am for this, in principle. This is only for those terminally ill with less than 6 months to live. Here in the Netherlands, in comparison, anything goes, it seems, including those with depression, kids, autistic people. From the government website; ”Euthanasia is only allowed for patients whose unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement has a medical dimension. This can be the case with somatic diseases such as cancer or cardiovascular disease, but also with psychiatric disorders, dementia or multiple geriatric syndromes.” Some terminally ill people will no doubt want to eke out the limited time they have left to spend it with family and others won’t because it’s not about the life a person has left it’s the quality of that life. The positive would have to outweigh the negative, and everybody’s different in that regard. I know if it were me I’d appreciate the choice and I feel it should be in an individual’s control when they wish to ”shuffle off this mortal coil”, and it’s important to remember that drugs do not ease all physical pain and they bring with them very unpleasant side effects. Again, *quality* of life is key; Here’s a list of MPs… Read more »
Indeed. It all depends what happens in due course. Looking on the bright side, it might have the benefit of reducing the need to find other ways round so as to avoid prosecution, if there is a legal route to follow, rather than certain groups turning a blind eye at this or that. There are choices made all the time, from individual cases to economic choices about what medication is viable now and so on. So there is s degree of honesty about it, which could be wise to adopt.
Thou shalt not kill, but do not strive officiously to keep alive. Hypocrisy in this case is preferable to ‘honesty’ since the former is not a mortal sin, but murder is. Life and death are messy.
But we cannot expect our brave, loyal troops to risk life & limb, enduring terrible hardships, using all their strength and skill, fighting our enemies to the death to defend us, while lecturing them about murder as a mortal sin !!! It is nauseating hypocrisy ! One of the first things Biblical Moses did after being welcomed, adopted and raised in luxury by that Egyptian princess was to secretly murder an Egyptian, and bury him in the sand. He killed him just for striking a Jewish man, who then helped Moses conceal the body. His true natural loyalty was to his own Jewish people, even though born & raised in Egypt by Egyptians, just as the true natural loyalty of ALL the Third World Immigrants is to THEIR own people, not to us, no matter what they say.
Even Jesus told his Apostles to carry swords, and said he came not to bring peace, but a sword !
Whatever happened to “Christian Warriors” ?
If not for Christian Warriors like Charles Martel, all of Europe would have fallen to the Islamic Horde centuries ago.
I don’t believe in “Doormat Theology”.
Ok mogs sure, but it always starts looking innocent enough and then transmogrifies (sorry) into Canada and NL where human life is now an entry in a ledger.
I note that I have not seen a similar list produced for those who voted to abort babies up to the moment of birth. Have I missed it or are they too scared of what those who voted for them will think in regard to voting for such a person in future?
I shared this under your post yesterday. Did you not see it?
https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/2058
I thought the NHS was hard pushed to keep us alive and healthy (the clue might be in the H). How will they be able to provide the ressources and the staff willing to be the National Death Service if called on? There will clearly be no such thing as two year waiting lists, though ironically that would solve the problem. Who will be relegated to a lower rung of the waiting ladder?
More votes for Reform 🇬🇧
Is this really “compassion” or is a “get rid of us quicker” agenda? Part of the De-Population idea.
“the NHS does not have capacity for providing assisted suicide as well as medical care…”
A very weak argument as after death that person will not require medical care so easing pressures on palliative care. The NHS does have capacity, it is probably already providing it.
Monsters Inc have really earned their tax funded coin this week. They’ve given us the right’ to k*ll babies AND poorly people. The de*vil will have a h*rd on.
“Assisted Suicide to Become Law”
WOAH!
We’re not done yet. This awful Bill has passed the Commons. It now goes to the Lords, where substantial amendments are likely. Those amendments come back to the Commons.
The Lords may even reject the Bill outright, as they should. The Lords don’t have a majority of sub-Marxist Labour representatives.
If they don’t reject the Bill completely, we enter “ping pong” between Commons and Lords. This is not a government Bill, and was not in Labour’s manifesto, despite Smarmy Starmer’s apparent support for it. Therefore the Parliament Act will not be used to close down the ping pong.
There is a very strong chance that the Bill will not pass before the end of the parliamentary session, and will therefore fall.
The BBC explains the situation here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rpdxz11d8o
We are a long way from the end of this, despite the nasty triumphalism of the sect who are pushing the Bill.
Where did this Bill come from? Who requested it’s creation? Is there any evidence of UK citizens (proles) keen to see this become lawful? Asking for a friend….