Danny Kruger
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Conservative MP for East Wiltshire. https://t.co/IMzh5e6Rvg. Promoted by Rebecca Hudson on behalf of Danny Kruger, 23-24 The Parade, Marlborough, SN8 1NE
Joined May 2011
Am hating the abuse I’m getting on here for sticking up for the Cummings’s. But they are old friends & here goes again: they’re human beings with a small child & made a decision in an emergency. PM is satisfied. Hope we can get back to discussing the recovery now. (Fond hope).
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Over the last 2 days the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has REFUSED amendments to exclude people with impaired judgement, the depressed and suicidal, prisoners and homeless people, those 'unduly influenced' by others, or those who are doing it because they feel a burden. 1/3.
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I've signed the motion of no confidence in Mr Speaker. This isn't personal: he's a decent man and I'm sure he thought he was doing the right thing yesterday. But Sir Lindsay allowed Labour to use the Islamist threat to change the way our democracy works. This is unacceptable. 1/.
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Child rape gangs flourish when authorities believe underage girls can give consent to sex with adults. Good to get this clear statement from @jessphillips that all adults having sex with children should be prosecuted. But. 1/2
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Dom and Mary's journey was necessary and therefore within rules. What's also necessary is not attacking a man and his family for decisions taken at a time of great stress and worry, the fear of death and concern for a child. This isn't a story for the normal political shitkickery.
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The Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has finished. My final speech here. This is not the Bill the public thought they were getting. It contradicts the NHS Act and the Hippocratic Oath. It's got worse, not better, in committee.
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At the end @Rebecca_SPaul and I managed to get Kim Leadbeater to admit that under her Bill a person would be able to get an Assisted Death for the sole reason of saving their relatives money. 3/3
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Labour is cutting benefits for disabled people - and this means 150,000 carers will lose their support too. First they came for the farmers. Then the pensioners. Now it’s disabled people and carers. My response in the Commons today
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The salient fact about the British & slavery is not that we practised it (so did every civilisation in history) but that we abolished it. The salient fact about the British Empire was not its existence (it was the universal model) but its largely peaceful & voluntary dismantling.
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It doesn’t matter who has what job in Government if we don’t face facts about what the matter really is. The matter isn’t good or bad ministers. It’s the slow collapse of the economic and social model that the UK has had for 30 years. Since the end of the Cold War we’ve had. .
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Very sorry indeed to hear @michaelgove has been fired by the PM. As I told No 10 earlier today it should be the PM leaving office. I am resigning as PPS at @Dluhc.
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Fascinating first day in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill committee, hearing evidence from experts (most of them pro assisted dying). Main takeaway: it really isn't clear what shape this Bill will be in when it comes back to the Commons. Issues that arose:.
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Another day in the Assisted Suicide bill committee. A series of amendments to make it safer were rejected. The committee voted down amendments to ensure doctors can’t suggest AS to patients - even to children. 1/.
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My colleague @miriam_cates has been publicly accused of an unnamed offence against parliamentary standards but cannot even discuss the accusation with anyone, let alone offer any kind of public defence. This is itself an offence against natural justice. We should do this better.
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Approval by the High Court - the key safeguard used to sell the Assisted Suicide Bill to MPs - has been dropped. Instead we have a panel, NOT including a judge, of people committed to the process, sitting in private, without hearing arguments from the other side. A disgrace.
EXCLUSIVE . Kim Leadbeater will scrap the sign-off from a High Court judge for assisted dying. She will table amendment to replace it with expert panel - senior lawyer, psychiatrist and social worker. Judge-led commission will oversee panels. Full story in tomorrow’s Guardian.
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This morning the Leadbeater Bill committee voted to let Clause 1 go through unamended - having rejected safeguards to protect the mentally ill, disabled people, those influenced or encouraged by others or those seeking assisted suicide to save their family money. We were told at
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The committee also refused an amendment that would restrict Assisted Death only to people who dying in pain - the exact group the campaign for this law has been all about. 2/3.
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Today the Assisted Dying Bill Committee met to discuss the witnesses we'll hear from. The list is heavily skewed towards people in favour of AD. Of 8 witnesses from countries with AD laws, ALL are in favour. We have 9 lawyers, most pro, none anti. Worst of all. .
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Today the Assisted Suicide Bill committee voted to REMOVE the key safeguard in the Bill that MPs approved at Second Reading in November: the High Court judge who was to decide each application for an assisted death. 1/.
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Thread👇. Second day's evidence in the Assisted Suicide bill committee. Today's witnesses blew apart the idea this bill is safe for vulnerable people. As Dr Jamilla Hussain explained it won't just be a new option for a few, but a new reality for everyone - and a very scary one
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News from the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee room - an eight hour session, which began with a warning we might have to sit through the night in future to make the deadline the Bill’s backers have set. I regret the haste we’re going at. Anyway, here’s what happened today.
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'Yes, and No' says the Minister. YES she wants 800,000 pensioners to sign up for Pension Credit to keep their Winter Fuel Payment - but NO she doesn't accept this will cost £2bn+, far more than the savings they're making by taking WFP off other pensioners. This makes no sense
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Thread/ .I've quickly digested the Leadbeater Bill, which was published this evening; I hope what follows reflects it accurately. The good news is we can stop this nonsense about 'assisted dying', 'shortening death' etc.
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Terrorist sympathisers are marching thru London calling for the destruction of the Jewish state while the police stand by - but hey let’s all focus on which version of an article was cleared by No 10. Can the media possibly please focus on the things that actually matter?.
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A young woman is about to die because an NHS Trust says she has 'terminal anorexia' and will not continue treatment. Advocates of Assisted Suicide deny this happens, or that anorexics will qualify for AS if it's legalised.
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The new plan: drop the judicial safeguard, replace it with a panel - not a court - without a judge, sitting in private, without meeting the patient, without family informed or able to appeal against an approval; and approval must be given if the easy test of 'capacity' is met.
Plans for Assisted Dying Review Panels have be released. It's a massive change to the Bill, and I can't believe it can be made and accepted without hearing new evidence and starting scrutiny again. It turns out "Judge-plus" is no such thing.
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The UK and EU are working together on sanctions and different measures are quicker to implement in some places than in others. On bank sanctions for instance we are leading the way. In other areas the EU is. The West is united - unlike the bit of Twitter still unhinged by Brexit
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I have just cast my first ever vote in the House of Commons. Very proud it was an Aye for the EU Withdrawal Bill. This is the first step to national reconciliation and to a new & more positive relationship with our European neighbours. Brexit is nearly over!.
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Today Keir Starmer persuaded the Speaker to change Parliamentary procedure in the face of the threat of political violence against MPs. A very dark day.
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Starmer is even more culpable. He should be standing for democracy and against mob rule. Instead he used the threat of violence for party political ends, to wriggle out of a crisis created by Labour's unbridgeable division over Israel. 2/.
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Very significant intervention from the Royal College of Psychiatrists coming out against the Assisted Suicide bill. Reasons here - all unaddressed in the Bill
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This exchange in the committee this morning goes to the heart of the Leadbeater Bill. A new clause, amending the 1946 Act, will change the NHS to the National Health and Assisted Suicide Service. And no, it's not just part of end-of-life care.
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Very glad to get this commitment from the Minister that the JCVI is to review the policy of vaccinating children against Covid, which never seemed proportionate to the risks, and is now surely unnecessary
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All credit to Matthew Parris for making the honest case for assisted suicide: that old people should be killed to save society the cost of looking after them. Maybe their bodies could then be turned into green energy? A modest proposal .
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. cheap money, cheap labour, outsourced manufacturing, New Public Management (fake markets & bureaucracy) in the public services, cultural globalisation, a growing techno-state, and total disregard for the things that give us meaning: families, communities, and the nation.
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I'm backing Suella Braverman. Here's why. I have three tests: Policy - what will they do as PM? Character - do they have the capability, courage and integrity required of a leader? Electability - can they connect with the public, and help us win the next election?.
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As Dr Clark said, raising the option unprompted is itself coercive, as it encourages people to think their life is not worth living anymore, and they should take this option.
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PS. I note the Bill makes it LEGAL for a doctor to suggest Assisted Suicide to a patient who hasn't mentioned it (a common problem in cash-strapped health systems), but ILLEGAL for a doctor to refuse to refer someone for Assisted Suicide if they request it. No neutrality here.
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This really matters - Labour stress their honesty and integrity, but today Reeves either misled the House or admitted the civil servants misled her when they presented the estimates last week.
Following statements made in the House, I have written to the Cabinet Secretary on the concerning contradiction between the Main Estimates put before Parliament last week and the document presented by the Chancellor today.
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. this is NOT the current CPS guidance, let alone what kids get taught in RSE lessons. Good we have clarity in Parliament - we need to change what happens on the ground. 2/2
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Brexit was a heroic blow for a better model - a restoration of the nation as the foundation of political power and identity. We need to complete this restoration by controlling our borders and making the common law the true ground of our rights and liberties.
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My PMQ today - Keir Starmer refuses to consult disabled people on the benefits cuts he's announced. Welfare needs reform - but not like this
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Let's not cross this Rubicon. Let's have a proper national conversation about end-of-life care, which could and should be so much better. Let's invest properly in palliative services so no-one has to die in unbearable physical pain. /Ends.
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You know what, with the benefit of hindsight, maybe it would have been best if the march today hadn’t been allowed to go ahead.
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We are now reaping the whirlwind: chronic public & private debt, chronic family breakdown, chronic despair; & all kinds of malignant reactions incl identity politics and the illiberalism of the modern Left, as well as total confusion about what the Tory Party thinks it’s for.
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My question today on the decision by @PayPal to cancel the accounts of @UsforThemUK and @SpeechUnion
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This is v true by @Docstockk : “when deciding who to bully first, the trans activists still seem to know who the women and who the men are.” Women who speak up for the reality of the categories of sex get far more abuse than us men who do so
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. we won't hear from a psychiatrist. A key issue with the bill is the issue of consent, capacity and coercion, including indirect coercion. @NazShahBfd tabled an amendment to hear from the Royal College of Psychiatrists - it was voted down.
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When people derive their identity - indeed, their existence - from their feelings, then there is no more debate, no more relationship, and no such thing as society. For that reason #IStandWithRosieDuffield.
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Witnesses all agreed the state of palliative care is disgraceful - and the boss of the Royal College of Nurses reluctantly accepted that people might chose Assisted Dying because the care they need isn't available.
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Starmer’s core political belief is that international law binds Govt and parliament. This is mad (viz Chagos), bad (viz failure to deport foreign enemies, compo for IRA, etc ad nauseam), and stupid (whose international law? What court? Which lawyers?) 1/2.
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Like the Speaker, I daresay Starmer wants to do the right thing. But like the Speaker he showed weakness and partisanship yesterday. This was a harbinger of what a Labour government would bring: extremists de facto in charge, and the subversion of democracy. 3/.
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Well said by Maurice Saatchi, guru of Thatcherism. A real free market isn’t a cartel of global megacorps
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Parents in my constituency are deeply concerned about the practice of 'social transitioning' - schools treating boys as girls or vice versa, with or without parents' consent. For the sake of all the children, including those confused about their identity, we need clarity. 1/4.
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The Palliative Care Social Workers rep was worried that (as happens abroad) people would choose it because of poverty, loneliness, feeling a burden etc.
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The answer lies in a restoration of the fundamentals: families, communities and the nation. More here:
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Amendments backed by the Govt, tabled at the last possible moment for the last day of the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee, create a power for ministers to change the founding purpose of the NHS. Giving patients lethal drugs wouldn't fit the original ('to secure improvement in the
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"In support of this law, I worked from 2005 to 2014 for the authorities in charge of monitoring euthanasia cases. I was convinced that the Dutch had found the right balance between compassion, respect for human life, and guaranteeing individual freedoms. "However, over the past.
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Keir says both that 'transwomen are women' and that 'a woman is an adult human female'. These sayings stand for opposite ideas in this debate. Hiding behind the tension between two laws (2004 and 2010) is an abdication of responsibility. 1/2
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We also need to strengthen our communities and families - to let local people take back control of local life, and make it easier not harder to raise children and look after the elderly.
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What's the difference between the right to decline life-sustaining treatment, and the right to request assisted suicide? The essential difference is that assisted suicide is not a healthcare treatment. You can decline a health intervention (the law is a shield against others) but.
Danny Kruger MP (@danny__kruger): The termination of your life does not address your symptoms, your condition, or your illness - it kills you. I don't think it's a healthcare treatment at all, and it should not be treated as such.
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But we heard powerful testimony from Dr Rachel Clark that capacity assessments are often very badly done.
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Why Government shouldn't tamper with the GRA. To concede the claims of the extreme trans lobby – that sex is simply ‘assigned’ at birth – is to sell the pass. We will be in Wonderland, or in 1984, where truth is what the people in charge decide it is.
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(And for those shouting 'prorogation' remember: in 2019 we sought to restore Parly sovereignty and to ensure that proper procedure - that the Govt controls the order paper except on opposition days - was followed. We had a rogue Speaker then. We can't have another one now.) 4/4.
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That means changing the economic balance, away from financial services in London and towards manufacturing in the regions; and it means deep reform to the welfare state, to reward community solutions not central bureaucracies.
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I said in the debate today that everywhere Assisted Suicide is introduced the scope or eligibility soon expands. A thread:.
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This is superb from @ddhitchens - on the abuse of language, and the threat to the NHS, from the Assisted Suicide campaign. Orwell could have written this.
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Delighted that @sajidjavid @DHSCgovuk has dropped the plan for the mandatory vaccination of health and care workers. Govt has heeded the evidence and made the right decision. We are now one of the freest countries in the developed world.
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Going through the rest of the evidence submitted to the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee. Most of it from medics, and almost universally opposed to the bill. This one is v moving - from a clinical scientist thankful her late husband didn't have this option.
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Of course ministers have made a mess of things in recent weeks. But we are in a far deeper crisis than a political one - this crisis has its roots in three decades of economic and social change which has affected the whole world, and upturned politics across the West.
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To MPs imagining we can 'improve' the Assisted Dying Bill after 2nd Reading: we can't. A pro-Bill majority on the committee will reject any amendments, and then ministers will decide outstanding details via negative procedure. The only power we'll ever have is this Friday.
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I’m encouraged by the PM’s commitment to ‘reflect’ on compulsory health worker vaccination. I hope both main parties will now recognise this policy is unnecessary
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The Prime Minister stands for the great realignment that the referendum of 2016 and the general election of 2019 introduced to our politics: a turning-back to the values and interests of the ordinary people of our country.
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We had and have those rights without the ECHR. If you don’t trust British voters to make their own laws, just say so.
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Chris Whitty admitted '6 months to live' isn't a precise science (no kidding: a majority of these prognoses turn out to be wrong). His main advice was not to tie doctors' hands with excessive safeguards; docs can judge capacity, and we shd not define 'terminally ill' too tightly.
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The fact the left so aggressively police the language around their agenda shows how vulnerable they feel it is. Cultural Marxism is an accurate description of what’s going on. Chris knows this, but here goes.
I see the Times interview with @miriam_cates says she refers repeatedly to ‘cultural Marxism’. I don’t know what she means by it, but it is generally regarded as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about the supposed undermining of Christian conservatism.
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The Royal College of GPs said it should be a completely separate service, outside general medicine. The hospices want nothing to do with it. The judges want it out of the courts. None of the professionals threatened with delivering this law think it will work. We must rethink!.
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HM Treasury has done an incredible job to rescue the formal economy: most businesses, workers & self-employed have had a lifeline. The biggest gap now - and it stretches right along the front line of all our neighbourhoods - is the social economy: charities & community groups. 1/.
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The Strasbourg Court is setting itself up as a legislator in place of elected governments. The ECHR has been bent out of shape by activists & politicians who want to seem progressive & internationalist by junking both nations and democracy. We should leave
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The WHO started 2020 by denying Covid came from a Chinese lab. They are starting 2023 by proposing a total takeover of future pandemic policy in each nation. This seems unwise to put it mildly
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I urge people to reflect on the implications of allowing assisted suicide. We simply can't write a law that will be safe for vulnerable people. Instead let's put our efforts into ensuring excellent palliative care for all so no one has to die in agony.
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Many people voted Labour last year because Keir Starmer promised he would compensate the WASPI women. Now they rightly feel betrayed.
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So the regulator who presided over the political debanking scandal has failed to find evidence of it. They simply asked banks if they were guilty without asking those who thought they might be victims to come forwards. We now need to ask serious questions about the FCA itself.
New - This will be a big story tomorrow. FCA review finds no evidence of politicians being "debanked" for their views. @Nigel_Farage tells the @FT: "This is farcical. The FCA are part of the problem." Scoop with the excellent @LauraNoonanFT .
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The Mayor of Brussels is trying to shut down the National Conservatism conference, due to be addressed by democratically elected politicians from around Europe. Extraordinary infringement of free speech and the right of assembly - all in the name of liberalism.
It’s been great to see Western Europe showing Viktor Orban how liberal democracies deal with dissent.
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Do you think, when Assisted Suicide is so much cheaper than palliative care - so much cheaper than hospital care itself - this is an obligation the system will duck? Or do you think the system will do its duty, and help as many people as possible enjoy the 'last right'?.
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We're left with a string of unanswered questions. We don't know if it will be an NHS service, and if so how funded or delivered. We don't know what drugs will be used. We don't know what the doc should do in the event of complications occurring after the drugs are taken.
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This is important. The Committee based its votes this week partly on Whitty’s mistake.
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This in two paragraphs is the whole case against Assisted Suicide. It's from The Tablet but it makes no religious argument. This is the 'cold logic' of what creating this 'right' leads to: an expectation (then a moral duty) for the old and disabled to end their lives.
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This is a vital thread for MPs to read about the Assisted Dying bill. The Commons only passed the bill at Second Reading explicitly - as its backers stressed - to ‘continue the discussion’ and look at the detail. Here is the detail.
What did we learn from the final day of evidence? . 1. This is far more complex than bill backers (and frankly No 10) anticipated and want to admit. There are huge problems with writing a bill, and then asking the policy questions. e.g. capacity. Professor Gareth Owen is a
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A final word. The Bill imposes an obligation on the NHS to ensure everyone has access to this great new service. There's already an obligation on the NHS to provide palliative care for all - an obligation it fails to meet.
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Powerful letter from former nurse and Labour MP.
This Friday, I will be voting against the Assisted Dying Bill. Below, I have outlined the reasons for my decision 👇🏿
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A number of local businesses tell me banks are refusing loans without 100% personal guarantees from directors - this despite 80% of the loans being guaranteed by Govt. The taxpayer isn't bailing out banks but businesses: banks should do as they're asked. Have raised with Treasury.
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I don't do God in public much as it makes people misrepresent what I'm actually saying. But this is quite right & I use the excuse of Easter to say so. Infanticide & euthanasia were common pagan practices wiped out by Christianity. Parris shows how close they are to coming back.
@danny__kruger When a society abandons the idea that all people are created in the image and likeness of God, a hierarchical notion of human worth becomes inevitable. Euthanasia was common in the pagan world for this reason. It is re-emerging as the West re-pagansises.
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Thanks, I presume, to the Parliamentary drafters who don't like euphemisms in statute, the Bill is explicit we're talking about assisted suicide - 'assistance to end their own life' - and the legislation it amends is the Suicide Act 1961. So that's clear.
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The bad news is it's just as bad as all the other efforts to license doctors to kill patients.
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High rates of immigration depress wages, reduce investment in skills and technology, put unsustainable pressure on housing and public services, and threaten community cohesion.
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Thread. Final day of evidence at the Assisted Suicide bill committee. It was by turns personal and philosophical. We heard from relatives of 3 people who had had - or whose families wish they'd had - AS. This was powerful testimony of the suffering we're trying to prevent. .
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(Actually it's not even 'doctors' but 'medical practitioners', the definition of which will specified at a later date - so a nurse or pharmacist, I guess.).
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The assisted suicide bill is premised on a lie. No doctor can give an accurate prognosis of 6 months to live. All you need is a doctor to agree to sign the papers. Fortunately Mo Mowlam's doctor didn't think like this in 1996.
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