Grieving mum. Battling for meaningful lessons 2b learned re preventable death of 33yr old son with Downs Syndrome.
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
I hope Lauren reconsiders and chooses a bill that sorts out palliative and end of life care instead. That would have the support of the entire house. What a legacy that would be.
Team Burnham Pressing Lauren Edwards to U-Turn on Assisted Suicide Bill order-order.com/2026/06/16/t…
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
Do you want a better NHS? A better education for your children? Do you want cheaper groceries? Maybe you want potholes repaired in your street?
Tough! You’re getting assisted suicide instead.
In a cost-of-living crisis, with a crumbling NHS and education standards falling, some MPs believe their focus ought to be on state-sanctioned suicide.
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RT @CNKAlliance: 🌹 ‘Adam Jogee was first out of the blocks, describing the move as “deeply divisive”, “insane” and as “bad bad news”. Ashl…
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
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Remember - some of them want you dead simply because its cheaper.
22 Jan 2025
Kit Malthouse says the quiet part out loud - the sponsor of Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide Bill suggests that legalising assisted suicide would save the NHS the cost of expensive treatment for dying people.
He maintains that current support for the terminally ill is "costing the taxpayer". The cat is well and truly out of the bag!
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
The idea that hospices would be defunded if they refused to carry out assisted suicide is, frankly, revolting. It will cause more suffering.
Successive governments have already chosen to underfund palliative care, leaving it mostly at the door of the charitable sector.
Jun 14
As Malthouse has clarified, the bill promises—among other things—to defund hospices if they decline to provide assisted deaths:
“Should they still be able to deny what is a legal service, if they are in receipt of public funds?”
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Here we go again... rather than working to ensure a 'good death' for all by funding end of life care, yet another misguided MP is pushing for assisted suicide
Thankfully my @BBCOne documentary explaining mine & others opposition is still on @BBCiPlayer
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Lauren Edwards can't just ignore Lord Shinkwin's call. No response yet.
Most MPs will breathe a sigh of relief & give her credit if she listens to Lord Shinkwin and picks up a different bill.
Jun 15
🚨BREAKING: Leading Peer calls on Lauren Edwards NOT to bring back assisted suicide Bill, in light of past comments, The Times reports tonight. The MP still has 36 hours to make a final decision on her Bill.
Lord Shinkwin statement in full:
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
If I was made king for a day, I'd issue a decree requiring @thelizcarr's doc to be played in the House of Commons just before PMQs. And I'd make attendance mandatory for MPs.
Here we go again... rather than working to ensure a 'good death' for all by funding end of life care, yet another misguided MP is pushing for assisted suicide
Thankfully my @BBCOne documentary explaining mine & others opposition is still on @BBCiPlayer
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
This is true: Rebecca, @NazShahBfd, @danfrancis02 and others tried **so hard**
They had to beg even for the @rcpsych, disabled groups and domestic violence experts to be heard
They were all dismissed by Leadbeater & Dignity in Dying
This 👇 I was on the commons bill committee. We tried so hard to improve the bill. They rejected almost all of the much needed safeguards we suggested. They even voted down our amendment to not bring it up with children!!!
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
📢URGENT: Ask your MP to help stop the assisted suicide Bill being brought back on Wednesday
Email your MP NOW – it takes just 30 seconds!
👉 righttolife.org.uk/laurenedw…
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
A REMINDER: Pre-Brexit, UK net migration was 100-200k a year, mostly from the EU.
Nigel Farage pushed hard for Brexit to “take back control”. It happened under the Tories.
Then numbers exploded to 900k. Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick ran the Home Office and ramped up migrant hotels.
Now in Reform UK they blast the very immigration crisis they helped create.
They blame the migrants, pose as the only saviours, and dodge all responsibility.
This is classic Reform gimmick: Create the problem, jump ship, then sell the outrage.
Only a fool falls for it. It is a CON job. Don’t fall for it. #ReformUK
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
I am utterly appalled and disgusted by Malthouse’s approach to this Bill. Why is he so determined for state-approved suicide and euthanasia to be driven through parliament? What man, far less a parliamentarian, would strive to implement a law that is so inhumane on the basis of “cost” to the State? Sickening!
22 Jan 2025
Kit Malthouse says the quiet part out loud - the sponsor of Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide Bill suggests that legalising assisted suicide would save the NHS the cost of expensive treatment for dying people.
He maintains that current support for the terminally ill is "costing the taxpayer". The cat is well and truly out of the bag!
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
Depressing thread on the numerous inaccuracies in Lauren Edwards’s statement.
The statement reads as though it was written by DiD, which it probably was.
Feels like we’ve outsourced the job of legislating - on this most grave of subjects - to a single issue campaign group.
Jun 15
1. This statement contains several inaccurate or confused claims.
First, Edwards says the bill is only for those “at the very end of their lives.”
But the bill’s “6-month prognosis” criterion is very broad: 1 in 5 of those eligible will actually have at least 3 years to live.
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
This attempt to ram through Assisted Dying worrying for a life and death situation
A private members bill seems inappropriate when rigorous scrutiny needed
Every Royal college and disability charity has expressed concerns eg mission creep and I worry about ethnic minorities
Jun 14
So a deeply dangerous bill that intends to remove safeguards once it’s through the door is being forced AGAIN and refuses to ensure safeguarding.
Anyone who gives a damn about people being able to make a decision on AD without coercion being a factor, will oppose this bill.
Unfortunately, many will still back this bill because it’s the cheaper solution.
They would rather let you, your loved ones suffer to the point of asking for AD rather than fund proper palliative care. That’s already coercion. It’s also cheaper to people being on benefits. In a country that let a mass disabling virus let rip - this is a cost saving bill.
But we knew this was the agenda since the committee stage when we first heard them vote away safeguards for non terminal disabilities. No one needs AD for autism, Down’s syndrome, anorexia or diabetes. But that’s what they voted on. Any safeguards in place to get this bill through the door is smoke and mirrors to allow state sanctioned death via the back door.
It must fail. This bill is completely unsafe for all. Even those they’re hiding this appalling bill behind. They’re using these terminally ill people to get this through. They do not care what happens with them at all.
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
🚨BREAKING: Leading Peer calls on Lauren Edwards NOT to bring back assisted suicide Bill, in light of past comments, The Times reports tonight. The MP still has 36 hours to make a final decision on her Bill.
Lord Shinkwin statement in full:
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 14
This is a mistake. It’s a flawed Bill. The whips ought not to be pushing this. If the government wants this in legislation it needs to be in a manifesto so that the electorate, which is just as divided on the issue, as Parliament have a say. It will of course be blocked again.
Jun 14
🚨Breaking - Lauren Edwards will bring the assisted dying bill back.
The Labour MP says the process has been “frustrated” and she will use her spot on the private members bill ballot to return the bill to the Commons
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Disappointing that Lauren Edwards MP wants to replay an unsafe assisted dying bill over asking for universal access to safe, high-quality palliative and end-of-life care, free at the point of need, an end to non-consensual DNARs plus appointment of a Palliative Care Commissioner.
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 15
Extraordinary. She isn't just reintroducing Assisted Dying as a concept she's bringing back exactly the same bill that got utterly eviscerated last time round. No serious charity or professional body with skin in the game supports it. NONE!
Jun 14
The Assisted Dying Bill is to return to parliament for second attempt, writes ITV News UK Editor @PaulBrandITV
itv.com/news/2026-06-14/assi…
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 14
Looks like a Labour MP is announcing they are bringing back the deeply flawed, unsafe assisted dying bill. Forget social media ban, forget about by-election, forget about a fresh start. One MP and multi million ££ lobbyists saying ignore dangers for the vulnerable
Jun 14
We have debated this deeply divisive and flawed Bill for over a year and nothing has changed nothing.
This Bill will hand sweeping, unchecked powers over life and death and our NHS to future governments..whoever they are.
Insane stuff.
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Pingu G S Handley retweeted
Jun 14
This is bad news for the vulnerable people whose lives will be put at risk if this bill were to pass. (But it’s also bad news for the Labour Party - pretty unbelievable some MPs want to bring it back).
Jun 14
NEW: The Assisted Dying Bill is returning to Parliament this week.
Labour MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce it on Wednesday after coming 2nd in the private members’ ballot.
“The process has been frustrated by a small minority”, she argues.
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