PaulaThinking

Interests alphabetically: allergies, fairness, French, gardening, healthy living, humour, Jesus, learning and knowledge, literature, Spanish, writing

[PaulaThinking @PaulaThinking]

@UKPowerNetworks And yes it is a regulated payment I was asking about

[PaulaThinking @PaulaThinking]

@UKPowerNetworks We have had power cut for more than 12 hours. Do we have to claim compensation or will it happen automatically?

[PaulaThinking @PaulaThinking]

@UKPowerNetworks No, we have a generator in place. It is a general question about the compensation as all the affected households want to know

[PaulaThinking @PaulaThinking]

@UKPowerNetworks I have also been offered a separate goodwill payment. But I don’t want to sign up to Hyperwallet it’s too intrusive. Is there any other way to receive payment?

[PaulaThinking @PaulaThinking]

@BrittanyFerries Hope you’ve remembered those with allergies in your new menus. Always disappointing when there are no safe puddings and very restricted choices elsewhere.

[PaulaThinking @PaulaThinking]

@AuthorFleur @AllergicLiving There is another group of people who are allergic to wheat, so gluten free wheat starch is still unsuitable.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

What are the Lords scrutinising, anyway?

Here are just 15 of the most important subjects they’re debating. For the most part these are issues ignored or swerved by the Commons:

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

The Lords debate is helping us get closer and closer to the reality of how the Assisted Dying Bill will work. The logic of this new 'right' is compulsive... you'll be screened at A&E for the quick death pathway, and then assigned a 'navigator' to 'help' you along it.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

🚨Lord Carlile highlights that there are "plenty" of examples from the international evidence of assisted suicide of people ending their lives because they "don't want to cause trouble" to people any longer.

This is a tragedy, not an aspiration.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

🔥MUST WATCH! @JeremyRBalfour tells MSPs that the assisted suicide Bill does not allow freedom of conscience for medics but rather mandates “compelled complicity” by forcing healthcare professionals to point people to someone who will end their life.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

🚨‘LET THE POOR HAVE SUICIDE TOO!’

Baroness Hayter argues the poor should have equal access to assisted suicide. Has it occurred to her that the wealthy can choose good palliative & social care at the end of life, while poorer people may feel forced to end their lives instead?

[teresa smith @treesey]

Very distressing answer from Stephen Kinnock when asked why the panel is unable to reject an application for early death caused by poor social care or support by @BaronessEB - citing @JamillaHussain1 & @Tanni_GT

His tldr answer is: well, they’re dying anyway so who cares?

[Clive Simpson @ItsTheDumbAges]

I spent a large proportion of my working life preventing people from killing themselves.

Many of those people were in distress and wanted nothing more than to die. Some of them ended up on a section, under constant 24 hour observation.

Are you saying, Professor Whitty, that we shouldn't have bothered?

This kind of intemperate language from the assisted suicide people raises all sorts of questions about who gets to choose to die and how this might impact on the operation of the Mental Health Act.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

☠️WHAT MONSTER ARE WE CREATING?

Former New Zealand MP Simon O’Connor explains that just 4 years after the legalisation of assisted suicide, NZ has policies to take organs from euthanised patients, despite the public being unaware this would happen when the law was passed.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

A child living in state care, with a disability, told Dame Rachel de Souza: "The Government will pay for me to die under this Bill, but it won’t pay for me to live".

Vulnerable young people deserve so much better than this.😡

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Unbelievably evil.

Scottish assisted suicide supporters don’t think you should need a prognosis of any kind to end your life by assisted suicide.

How can this prevent coercion, abuse, or harm from happening? So worrying.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Assisted suicide is Orwellian, says the impressive barrister and pharmacist Greg Lawton.

“Medicine” and “treatment” should not be used to kill. This is not the kind of society we should be striving to live in.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

How ignorant can they get?

The assisted suicide Bill assumes that everyone, regardless of capacity, can give consent to end their lives.

Those who are being coerced, those with dementia, these individuals cannot consent to such a permanent decision.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

This is appalling.

The radical implication here is that these people believe assisted suicide should be available to anyone who wants it.

The job of the health service is not to kill healthy people. This shocking legislation must be stopped.

[Fr. Matthew Cashmore @matthewcashmore]

Listen folks. This is worrying. Actually, it’s not worrying, it’s terrifying. I have sat with people who are about to, and are planning on ending their lives. I’ve talked them back from the edge. I’ve sat and prayed and sobbed and talked and laughed. This is not coercion, this is love in action.