Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile
Frankie Gerard

@fran3tic

Career girl, mum and now caring for my daughter through her eating disorder. Using pseudonym to protect my daughter's anonymity, not mine.

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Not Dead Yet UK (@thenotdeadyetuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🕣 Join us from 8:30am at Old Palace Yard on Friday 20th June. We must show up — loud, visible, united — to say: we are #NotDeadYet. Assist us to live, not to die. This bill is dangerous, society-shifting & will shorten disabled lives. 👉 Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/kill-the-bil…

🕣 Join us from 8:30am at Old Palace Yard on Friday 20th June.

We must show up — loud, visible, united — to say:  we are #NotDeadYet. 

Assist us to live, not to die. This bill is dangerous, society-shifting & will shorten disabled lives.

👉 Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/kill-the-bil…
Dan Hitchens (@ddhitchens) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1. Daniel Finkelstein—fervent advocate of the Iraq war and Osborne-era austerity—explains that as a small-c conservative he would never support any kind of “radical” “upheaval”, and is quite sure the Leadbeater bill is safe. OK, that was a cheap shot. Here are some pricier ones:

1. Daniel Finkelstein—fervent advocate of the Iraq war and Osborne-era austerity—explains that as a small-c conservative he would never support any kind of “radical” “upheaval”, and is quite sure the Leadbeater bill is safe.

OK, that was a cheap shot. Here are some pricier ones:
Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you BBC Newsnight and the wonderful Victoria Derbyshire for having fully understood the concerns about anorexia and this bill. As you say voluntary refusal of food and water is not what anorexia is and we know that those with anorexia are often found to have capacity.

Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s not too late to sign this letter showing as carers of loved ones with anorexia how this bill and the health care system more generally are failing us with devastating consequences.

Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you. Pls focus on the terrible position of severe anorexia sufferers who are now being diagnosed as "terminal" even though with the right care they could recover. it is dangerous to introduce this bill into a failing NHS which doesn't care for these patients as it should.

Barack Obama (@barackobama) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This horrifies me. @KimLeadbeater has been told over and over by experts both from experience and professional clinicians that people with this new diagnosis of "terminal anorexia" will fall under the provisions of this bill. She's either deliberately misleading or stupid.

Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is so powerful. Ailidh, Lesley and Neal are telling the truth, a truth that contradicts @KimLeadbeater's version of reality. I'm heartbroken for Lesley and Neal and full of admiration of the work they do. Mehhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4ef7045141eba9c2. .

Rajiv Shah (@rajivshah90) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has lost its absolute majority in the Commons (they got 314, and it's 318 for absolute majority) And their lead has been cut by more than half Not a bad result The fight continues

Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is the point. Of course they won’t. Nor for an eating disorder service that is fit for purpose. I was shouted at by a Dignity In Dying person today telling me my concerns were made up and depriving him of his choice. But apparently we’re the ones lacking respect.

Frankie Gerard (@fran3tic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good effective compassionate care for all eating disorder sufferers would deal with the assisted dying problem for anorexia. Wes Streeting I hope you will prioritize this and all those MPs who expressed sympathy and then nodded through the bill with no amendments will join in.