Absolutely infuriating that one of my colleagues has decided that what Parliament should focus on in the coming months - given everything going on in the world and here at home - is bringing back the assisted dying bill. Head in hands.
We have debated this deeply divisive and flawed Bill for over a year and nothing has changed nothing.
This Bill will hand sweeping, unchecked powers over life and death and our NHS to future governments..whoever they are.
Insane stuff.
I am delighted to return as one of your MSPs for South Scotland after a tough election for my party.
It is important we reflect on what the electorate are telling us and seek to understand this result.
I look forward to representing this great region at Holyrood again.
Getting our steps in before the storm arrives, this weekend we have spoken to around 300 voters in Muirkirk, Cumnock and Mossblown. Thanks to the amazing Ayrshire Young Labour members for joining us in Holmhead this morning.
Kirsten Larson, the NLC councillor who told her SNP colleagues the 'only thing jordan linden is guilty of is being a young person' is now asking for one of Linden's victims to show 'dignity and respect' towards HER. You could not make this shit up.
Daniel Johnson confirms he will vote against the assisted dying Bill tonight.
By my reckoning, if just one more MSP who backed it at Stage 1 switches, and no one moves from no to yes, the Bill is likely to fall.
During the assisted dying debate, former first minister Humza Yousaf says that a "society that leaves someone with a terminal diagnosis believing that their only options are either to endure intolerable suffering or end their life prematurely, is a society that has failed them".
In Canada, suicide legislation has led to a pitiless terrain where the sick and vulnerable are being pressed into decisions made by cost-conscious health bodies: last month’s column on the Assisted Dying bill https://t.co/yPBC1UkZIK