The Labour MP who has launched another attempt to rush assisted dying through parliament has urged the Lords to ‘finish the job’. Labour MP for Rochester and Strood Laura Edwards is attempting to push assisted dying through parliament again using dirty tricks.
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Dirty tricks again on assisted dying
Under the Parliament Act, if the same bill is passed by MPs in two consecutive parliamentary sessions, peers have no power to stop it. While Lords can suggest amendments, there’s also no requirement for the Commons to pass them.
And here’s the worst part: if the Lords don’t agree to pass the bill and it gets talked out by the end of the parliamentary session, it becomes law by default.
The original Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, was voted through by MPs after Kim Leadbeater used every weapon she could to stop those concerned about coercion and disabled people voicing opposition. At every turn Leadbeater painted opposition as anti-choice, as opposed to disabled people terrified for our community.
It then went to the Lords, where those for the assisted dying bill, including media shills, tried to tear down those attempting to bring amendments.
In the Lords, so many Peers wanted to speak that the debate had to be spread over two days, with two-thirds of speakers being against the bill. It progressed to committee stage, where the corrupt committee restricted evidence.
After that it went back to the lords, where Falconer casually said that both pregnant people and poor people would be allowed assisted deaths. The bill eventually ran out of time, as so many peers wanted to scrutinise it, which again was criticised.
Lauren Edwards is as bloodthirsty as Leadbeater
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Edwards said she was ‘playing by the rules’ and asking the Lords to do the same regarding the assisted dying bill.
She said:
Laws passed in the House of Commons are then refined by the House of Lords, but they don’t have the opportunity to block them.
It’s perfectly reasonable for us to ask the House of Lords to finish the job.
To be clear, this is a law that would usher in state-supported euthanisation for disabled people. If I were attempting to be an architect for this, I probably wouldn’t have used a phrase that makes me sound like a blood thirsty ghoul, but you do you, Lauren.
Furthermore, it’s not really ‘playing fair’ if you’re taking away the other team’s powers, is it?
By using this loophole, Edwards has to use the exact same assisted dying bill Leadbeater introduced, which means there would be no protection for anyone vulnerable from being coerced into it. As Labour MP Ashley Dalton pointed out, we can’t expect the ‘for’ side to be open to commons amendments either, as they rejected them all last time
Dalton replied to a tweet suggesting MPs use this as a new opportunity to ‘fix it rather than criticise it’ with:
Commons Committee tried, but almost all amendments were rejected by the proponents of the bill. The proponents even brought 77 amendments themselves to the Lords it was in such a bad state when it left the Common. Remains to be seen if they incorporate any of these in the new bill.
Edwards hasn’t listened
It seems that Edwards cockily thinks she can rely on the Commons to vote for the same assisted dying bill twice. However, MPs have had over a year to realise they were rushed into a terrible decision. That while many people support assisted dying in theory, anyone who looks at the bill can see how flawed and lacking in safeguards it is.
One things for sure, disabled people have another fight on our hands. But Labour should already know we will not quietly let them kill us.
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