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“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed” Clarice Lispector
“...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Labour MPs: the local election results are a disaster. We're incredibly unpopular. We need a new leader.
Also Labour MPs: let's have another go at passing unsafe legislation that puts the elderly, victims of DV & the disabled at risk of death.
Letter from members of the Lords from palliative care, psychiatry and law, on the #AssistedDyingBill. >> "the Bill ... failed because too many of its supporters were unwilling to engage with the complexities of developing a law that is genuinely safe, equitable and compassionate." This is true.
The assisted suicide Bill is a dangerous mess of a Bill, with fewer safeguards than when it began. If the exact same shambles is revived, it will face strong opposition.
Labour MP Lauren Edwards to reintroduce assisted suicide Bill
https://t.co/Nd2c4FT45N
Top ten responses so far from Labour MPs:
—Antonia Bance: “Head in hands”
—Ian Byrne: “Grim”
—Ashley Dalton: “Very sad…deeply flawed and unsafe”
—Florence Eshalomi: “Where to even start’”
—Allison Gardner: “An insult to parliament that this bill has been brought back”
—Rupa Huq: “Last thing we need”
—Adam Jogee: “Insane stuff”
—Emma Lewell: “Absolutely dismayed… A deeply flawed and dangerous bill”
—David Smith: “Very sad news indeed… I can’t think of a more divisive issue”
—Kirsteen Sullivan: “I cannot believe we are back here again. With no humility about the concerns raised previously”
@SimonCalvert14 some elements of the current parliament are profoundly anti-intellectual, immune to new and complex information or advised consequences and led solely in their conviction in this case their version of autonomous choice’
@SimonCalvert14 some elements of the current parliament are profoundly anti-intellectual, immune to new and complex information or advised consequences and led solely in their conviction in this case their version of autonomous choice’
Labour’s @emmalewell “Absolutely dismayed that the Bill is being re-introduced. Not a single one of our major medical or professional bodies support it. A deeply flawed & dangerous bill that poses a real risk to the most vulnerable in our society.” https://t.co/1A489pk9TR
Holyrood rejected AD because - despite a majority supporting the principle - MSPs properly scrutinised their bill and listened to expert opinion. The supporters of AD in Westminster appear to have learnt nothing from this…
Appalling that the Bill’s new sponsor could be so misinformed about the legislation she has signed up to lead through Parliament. And shame on the campaigners who drafted these untruths for her.
@KarlTurnerMP@RightToLifeUK If suicide on the nhs comes in under Labour I for one will never vote Labour again for the rest of my life having voted for them for the last 40 years . Offensive to do this when palliative care so weak across the UK
It is infuriating. Even more so when you realise this is a government bill behind the scenes, and it exists because they don’t want to pay for people to have quality palliative care.
Kim Leadbeater was the face of this dangerous bill because Labour knew they’d win no votes with this, when their party is already in a wreck.
You can read more here- https://t.co/IrPcoiyTqj
@PolitlcsUK I must clarify this is NOT a Labour Bill. There are plenty in the party, like me, that do not support it and find it dangerously flawed and unsafe.