claudregnard.bsky.social
Claud Regnard (Palliative Medicine doctor & bodhran player): constantly curious, pleasurably puzzled and enthusiastically energetic (except for exercise).
👤 Joined on 22 November 2024
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@claudregnard.bsky.socialIf Starmer goes, does that do enough to take the political wind out of the assisted dying bill's sails?
Show Postthey came for disabled people too, both by making it even harder for us to claim benefits but also by allowing assisted dying legislation with pathetic safeguards to be pursued knowing that it will lead to disabled people being pressured into dying.
Show PostWhatever the public's view on legalising #AssistedDying it comes last on their priorities for this government.
Show PostLabour peer just let slip he thinks poor people should be allowed to use assisted dying www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Show Post3/n And while the Commons did support the assisted dying bill at third reading, there were a lot of reservations and the margin was only 314-291. Taking all this together, to threaten use of the Parliament Act to bludgeon it through, feels more undemocratic than the Lords blocking it, for now.
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