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“One consultant said she could foresee a time when ‘20 to 30 patients with anorexia access assisted dying in this country every year, because of the contagion effect’.” Hadley Freeman in today’s Sunday Times on the committee’s “unforgivable” rejection of anorexia safeguards:

“It was vital these loopholes were closed. But as one person who has been in the committee room told me, ‘there is a frenzied energy, almost a religious fervour’ from some MPs to jam this bill through.” thetimes.com/comment/column…

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A powerful speech from Vicky Foxcroft 💙 who was a brilliant shadow minister for disabled people in the opposition Labour DWP team. If I was still in Parliament I would be joining her and voting against the Assisted Dying Bill today.

Today, I voted against the Assisted Dying Bill and will continue to push for improvements in palliative and hospice care. That is the only way to ensure that no one from any community is left behind.

My letter to constituents in Coventry on today’s Assisted Dying Bill vote.

For Rebecca Wilcox to come on the airwaves and say “the dead don’t have a voice”. Precisely. That is the point. Naive to assume only the good go in to public service roles. For someone in consumer media the wilful blindness is extraordinary.

this is not the right time to be introducing assisted dying. I am disappointed that today, a bill has been passed that the Royal College of Physicians said it couldn’t support, and the Association for Palliative Medicine called ‘compromised by inadequate safeguards’. (5/6)

Adam Jogee MP thank you so much, Adam

Good example of the amateurishness of too many MPs. “My view remains that the UK must have the strongest and most robust safeguards imaginable”. Obviously not a description of the bill Pochin literally just voted for, but a pious phrase that feels good to type into your phone

alexmassie We saw this in so many debates on legislation in the Scottish Parliament also. Too many MSPs felt they could not be seen to vote against - for example - a deeply flawed Hate Crime bill for fear of being seen to be in favour of hate crime, racism or abuse. Not good enough.

Tim (totally unremarkable) And None of that changes that somebody should’ve been willing to pair in the other case

New intake 2024 MP: able to think critically & scrutinise legislation 👇

8/ Esther Ranzen won’t be coerced, she isn’t anorexic, she isn’t forgotten, far from it, she commands front pages and PM attention. But I tell you something Labour MPs. Your predecessors could tell a celebrity from the voiceless. They could spot healthcare and harm.

‘I could not, in good conscience, support legislation that embeds so many dangers’

‘…we have serious concerns that older people, who would be significantly affected by the Bill, and those specialising in older people’s healthcare have been excluded from the debate…’

I preferred the Labour Party when its wasn’t quite so enthusiastic about death as a measure of social progress. You know the party that built the NHS and committed it to preserving life which it’s just voted to change in the NHS constitution.

2024 intake MP. Doesn’t seem to understand what ‘mental capacity’ is under the MCA & clearly hasn’t read the letters from the Royal Medical Colleges & specialist medical organisations (Royal College of Psychiatrists Royal College of Physicians RC of Pathologists APM & British Geriatrics Society)

Our beloved Maude has taken a turn for the worst 😢 we are leaving for the emergency vet now

One of the most chilling moments of the committee stage was when Gordon remarked, with a slight smile, that “There’s something quite British in feeling a bit like a burden,” then voted against an amendment to prevent people receiving lethal drugs because that’s how they feel: