Unlike so many others in this debate, The Times is now honest enough to say they aren't just against this particular assisted dying bill, but also against any version of an assisted dying bill.
thetimes.com/comment/the-ti…
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Jason Dixon
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Jason Dixon
@JasonD60
Advocate for legalising voluntary assisted dying and proportional representation in the UK. Supports @MDMDMyDecision and @MakeVotesMatter.
Brighton, England Katılım Ekim 2012
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@AdamPollock @TheCriticMag Bold of someone who doesn't understand the meaning of "rejection" to criticise my knowledge of the English language.
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@JasonD60 @TheCriticMag Bold of an assisted suicide supporter to claim to understand what capacity means all of a sudden
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By the beginning of May, assisted suicide will have been rejected by Scotland, England and Wales.
The issue has decisively been settled: Britain does not want assisted suicide legislation.
My latest for @TheCriticMag: thecritic.co.uk/assisted-suici…
The Critic@TheCriticMag
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow, writes @AdamPollock: the rejection of the Scottish assisted suicide Bill appears to be sounding the knell for the assisted suicide Bill in Westminster, too thecritic.co.uk/assisted-suici…
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@AdamPollock @TheCriticMag If you think my point was merely "nitpicking" then clearly you have very little capacity to understand politics.
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@JasonD60 @TheCriticMag Not going to be nitpicked on language by someone who calls it “assisted dying”
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I can't imagine why Kevin would be ignorant to the insensitivity to waving bottles of champagne around when the topic is something as sensitive as assisted dying. He too has heard the very tragic stories of people who wanted choice and couldn't have it.
Kevin Yuill@historykev
What a distasteful and sour post. NOBODY takes pleasure in anyone suffering or 'loss of dignity' (by which you mean being disabled). @fleurmeston is celebrating the defeat of suicide being offered on the NHS. #assistedsuicide
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@crhealy72 So the 314 MPs who voted in favour should be ignored purely because you think Starmer should have proposed it as a government bill. I see.
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@JasonD60 If it had been proposed as government business, it would have been debated properly and scrutinised properly and that would be better democracy for such a massive change. You trying to justify Labour trying to circumventdemocracy is silly, and tedious. I've given you enough time
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This is not a good reason to try and shove massive changes like state backed suicide through by private members bill.
Democracy isn't supposed to be convenient, or side stepped
Jason Dixon@JasonD60
@crhealy72 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV No prime minister is going to tear their cabinet apart for the sake of one bill.
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@crhealy72 Do you think someone has to be supportive of assisted dying to make time for a PMB? Surely even someone opposed to it might think parliament should have time to consider it irrespective of their own views?
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@JasonD60 You are confused. Or just saying any old shit, who knows? It's the Speaker who allocates time for PMBs, supposedly. This happened after the GE. If Starmer wanted it, he should have put it in the manifesto. As he left it out, it's his fault if it falls because that was dishonest
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@crhealy72 Before the election he said he'd make time for an MP to move a PMB. Kim Leadbeater came forward with one. There's nothing confusing about that.
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@JasonD60 You kept saying it was known about before the GE because Starmer said he'd make time for it, which shouldn't be possible as it hadn't been proposed, so you need to make your mind up.
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@crhealy72 It isn't his bill, it is Kim Leadbeater's. Unless you think PMBs should never become law, which would be a strange position considering PMBs have existed for centuries.
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@JasonD60 I think he's the Prime Minister and I think the boss has ultimate responsibility for the business of government and his MPs yes.
Why? Don't you?
Pretty meh pivot attempt
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@crhealy72 Why are you obsessed with Starmer? Do you think he's the only person in parliament that believe assisted dying should be legalised?
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@crhealy72 No it wouldn't, it was never going to be a government bill as potential government ministers would always object to that being the case. Unless you are saying he should have chosen his cabinet purely based on their position on assisted dying, which would be extreme indeed.
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@JasonD60 If he'd have put it in the manifesto it would have been brought forward as government business and had as much time as it needed to be debated, scrutinised and voted on in Parliament, so no PMB required.
It's going to fail because of his dishonesty.
And it will be deserved
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@crhealy72 Even if he had put it in the manifesto that he would make time for a PMB, it will still have been a free vote, and everyone would still have to ask their own prospective MPs how they would vote.
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@JasonD60 That's even less honest. He should have put it in the manifesto for sure if he already knew it was going to be proposed. Is he psychic too? Because the Speaker hadn't accepted Leadbeatter's (should change her name to CripBeater imo) PMB proposal until after the GE?
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@crhealy72 I'm not psychic, Starmer said publicly he'd make time for a PMB. So I asked my prospective MP how they would vote in it.
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@JasonD60 Did you? Well aren't you lucky to be psychic.
That's not making your arguments to the public though, is it?
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@crhealy72 I asked my prospective MPs what their position was before the election as I knew it would be a vote of conscience and not government policy.
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@JasonD60 And voting for the party who's policies you most agree with at elections.
If they don't put their biggest proposals in their manifesto that's not democracy.
The mental capacity act says that you need to be fully informed to make reasonable decisions. This was a con
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@crhealy72 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV Assisted dying is an issue which has very strong views on both sides. Your claim it's just a matter of persuasion is very naive.
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@JasonD60 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV If he can't persuade his own cabinet, how in hell was he going to persuade the public.
So he chose dishonesty and trying to prevent proper scrutiny.
It's now biting him on the arse because he is terrible at politics as well as a terrible human being
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A terminally ill mother has called on peers to reject the assisted dying bill as she fears it could be a danger to disabled people like her.
Her fear is shared by others in an exclusive poll for ITV News, UK Editor @PaulBrandITV reports.
itv.com/news/2026-03-2…
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@crhealy72 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV No prime minister is going to tear their cabinet apart for the sake of one bill.
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@JasonD60 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV They are not the Prime Minister. And that's not relevant, really.
Something which creates such a fundamental change should have been in the manifesto. It should have been debated in the HoC. They tried to 'one neat trick' the legislation because they couldn't justify it
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@crhealy72 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV Streeting and Mahmood would never agree to it being a government bill.
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@JasonD60 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV No they're not. They are performing their function of making the bill workable.
If the government had done its job properly it would have had this scrutiny in the HoC and had government time. They tried to push it through slyly on a PMB
It's on them that it might time out.
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@crhealy72 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV My point is a relatively small group of peers who will never vote in favour of any version of an assisted dying bill are preventing the whole house from voting.
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@JasonD60 @ITVNewsPolitics @PaulBrandITV You already acknowledged that they don't get to vote on it. Not sure what your point is?
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