@nmdacosta @LabourList Are you physic now?
How about you sense what everyone is thinking and shut up. Take a day off go touch grass and stop being so vile
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Lauren Edwards told @LabourList that being from Victoria, Australia gives her confidence to force into law the failed unsafe assisted dying Bill.
But Victoria’s Act contains safeguards absent from her Bill - safeguards she will ask MPs to vote down:
1. Core principles in statute: every human life has equal value; people should receive quality care to minimise suffering and maximise quality of life; choices must be genuine; vulnerable people must be protected from abuse.
2. Doctors must not initiate or suggest assisted death.
3. Suffering must be incapable of being relieved.
4. Doctors must have at least 5 years’ experience.
5. Doctor must have relevant expertise in the person’s illness/condition.
6. Explicit attention to mental illness - psychiatric referral is required where mental illness may affect capacity.
7. The patient must be warned of the risks of taking the lethal substance.
8. Witnesses cannot own/run the facility where the person is treated or lives, nor provide them with health/professional care services.
9. A detailed statutory regime governs supply, handling and return of the lethal substance.
10. Interpreters must be adults, should be accredited, independent, not family, not beneficiaries, and not working at the care / health facility.
If Victoria gives her confidence, why is her Bill weaker than Victoria?
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@New_Wesphalian @nmdacosta 8 unelected peers fillibustering and didnt dare send it to vote. Stopping the will of 70% of the population and majority in the elected house
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@nmdacosta Pretty much the same game plan as last time. Send the bill to the Lords, push it through the truncated procedure, reject al safeguards, then pretend it's a democratic affront when the Lords do what the proposers told the commons they would allow the Lords to do.
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Utterly fed up with this lie, promoted by campaigners since the start. In 2024 a lot of MPs were brand new but they've seen dozens and dozens of bills since then. There is no excuse for this utter misleading tosh, and it takes other MPs for fools.
Nikki da Costa@nmdacosta
🤬🤬Lauren Edwards misleads Press Association: "we (MPs) will have the opportunity to have a final vote on [the Bill] in the usual way once it returns from the Lords.” MPs do NOT get to vote on ANY Bill as a whole that returns from the Lords, only specific amendments.
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@nmdacosta Utterly sick of you tbf.
You spout the most vile shite and un proven facts over and over. Do us all a favour tell your funders you need to stop and grow a conscience.
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@nmdacosta You sure about that i have some rather interesting information knocking around.
Glad to get a screen shot of you denying it though....
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@CookJosh90395 Do grow-up. Not one single penny. Given Dignity in Dying is completely opaque on their high net worth donors and can fund ads in Westminster which only the likes of BAE can usually afford, I don't think it's me you should be concerned about. x.com/nmdacosta/stat…
Nikki da Costa@nmdacosta
@JasonD60 Not a single penny, nor is it needed. It's the right thing to do - it's an appalling bill, pushed in the most appalling reckless manner. I may be knackered fighting it but I'll continue to fight. P.S. Paul Brand tried this already. What about you? x.com/nmdacosta/stat…
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Yesterday, some hard truths for hardcore Assisted Dying campaigners from both the Government and supporters.
1. An MP in the ballot picking up this Bill, has very little chance of success. They'd be wasting their slot...1/
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@AshleyDalton_MP @sophieRblake @catholicEW Suffering was removed from the bill ages ago. You just keep showing your inability to read and comprehend the English language.
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@sophieRblake @catholicEW Thing is tho Sophie this bill doesn’t legislate for that. It says nothing about palliative care and whether or not it can reasonably be expected to help a person. It says nothing about suffering. All it says is a Dr says you have less than 6 mths and you say you want it.
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Archbishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has expressed his deep disappointment that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will return to parliament in autumn. cbcew.org.uk/statement-on-t…
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@fleurmeston You madam should shush or shall I show the world the despicable crap you have posted before????
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I would have unlimited respect for Lauren Edwards MP if she did the right thing and tabled a different private members bill tomorrow. It’s not too late.
Right To Life UK@RightToLifeUK
🚨BREAKING: The Times calls on Lauren Edwards to ditch assisted suicide Bill at eleventh hour! In its lead article, the influential newspaper calls on the MP to “think again”, telling her it’s “not too late” to choose another bill. She has until tomorrow lunchtime to decide.🧵1/
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@moselbucket99 @LostTransport @nmdacosta Raised to understand my situation and have a good sense of life and what living is. Quality of life and what I will lose. At 16 I started making my plans and setting my life up. Its called adapting and acceptance.
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If Lauren Edwards cared about people not being pushed into an assisted death, she’d be addressing concerns of Royal Colleges, Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Delegated Powers Committee. But she’s not it’s the identical bill, and her position is no amendments.
Philip Murray@philipmurraylaw
Already something very fishy about Lauren Edwards’ assisted suicide Bill. Edwards says she doesn’t think the Bill should be enacted through the Parliament Acts, yet is insisting exactly the same Bill be passed by the Commons as last time, refusing even to incorporate Lord Falconer’s 70+ amendments from the last session. There can only be one reason for this: the Parliament Acts require the same Bill to be passed by the Commons in two sessions. I’ve no doubt that Edwards will continue to present her Bill simply as an opportunity for the Commons to ask the Lords to “finish the job”, but the idea that the Bill won’t end up on the statute book if the Commons passes it again is, frankly, disingenuous.
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@hfp91 @EllieCumbo @sophieRblake @nmdacosta @RoyLilley @ProfRobHoward @DrAnnieHickox Its not though because its for mentally compentant adults thats not a concept that can be argued its allready enshrined in law and very clear.
Its amusing to me that you cant manage simple comprehension tasks.
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@EllieCumbo @sophieRblake Well said Ellie
competent & capacity are two different things in health care
You may be competent at tying your shoe laces but has no capacity to understand the left shoe is on your right foot @nmdacosta #AssistedDying @RoyLilley @ProfRobHoward @DrAnnieHickox
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Note for watchers of the Assisted Dying Bill, round 2: an odd error seems to have crept into the lines from supporters. They've started saying only "mentally competent" people would be eligible- but that phrase doesn't appear anywhere in the Bill; it's an American legal concept.>
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@AshleyDalton_MP @sophieRblake @catholicEW You need to actually read the bill instead of making up lies. You really show a lack of comprehension thats worrying.
Mentally compentant terminally ill adults its not hard those terms are enshrined and have been in UK law for ages.
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@nmdacosta Who puts you up your drivel CARE?
Some transparency would be nice from you whos funding you?
You attacked Kim and now Lauren your a joke.
@nmdacosta the enemy of choice and compassion
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I'm struck that just as Lauren Edwards had agency in choosing her Bill, Labour MPs also have agency. They don't have to be dragged along for the ride, forced into three months of bitter division over an unsafe Bill. Suspect we will see more speak out this week.
Nikki da Costa@nmdacosta
"Should Burnham return to Westminster as MP for Makerfield on Friday (and later prime minister) it is hard to see a world in which he would welcome this Labour Party-dividing legislation. He will strive to bring competing factions together, not set them to war".
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@eezeejoe @louderry @thelizcarr @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer You cretinious little waste. I invite you to say that vile shite to my face.
Cowardly little excuse of a human.
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@louderry @thelizcarr @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer I agree.
I would gladly watch you being injected to put you out of your misery 👍🏻🙂
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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/episod…
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@DianaBr95650186 @TonyMarra_1 You are aware if you talk to many medical staff they have the view of patient choice first?
Its about adding a choice not taking one away.
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@TonyMarra_1 Of course individuals have their own view but by and large medics are more interested in saving lives rather than murdering their patients. That’s what they sign up for. Why should they have this dumped on them?
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It's all very well saying revisit this bill, but what's the point when their aim is not good legislation and listening to those at the coal face, but just ramming it through for political point-scoring.
Luciana Berger@lucianaberger
Here’s what all the organisations have said about the Bill :
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@adhib @nmdacosta @SebastianEPayne @TimesRadio Make a change so your just a unfeeling uncaring human.
Have you ever watched a love one die by degrees suffer more and more every day?
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Kit Malthouse, hardcore supporter of the Bill, just told @SebastianEPayne @TimesRadio that MP supporters of the Bill must NOT amend the Bill.
Every amendment, no matter how vital, will be rejected by Lauren Edwards MP.
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@adhib @nmdacosta @SebastianEPayne @TimesRadio Ive followed the debates since I was 16. The arguments against are the same drivel every time you wont listen or respect whats said.
Your a very rude little man aren't you petal.
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@CookJosh90395 @nmdacosta @SebastianEPayne @TimesRadio You've missed the point. But perhaps you weren't following the debate.
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The response to Lauren Edwards’ decision to bring back assisted suicide is incredibly revealing.
The entire Labour Party is being criticised over this, even though it is one MP’s decision.
Completely the wrong thing for a Labour MP to do at a time of crisis.
Genevieve Holl-Allen@genevieve_holl
Kemi Badenoch's response to the assisted dying bill being brought back V critical of Lauren Edwards and suggests the legislation is 'silly' and a 'fatuous gimmick'
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I can only assume you think it will *blow our minds* that some people want to kill themselves, and that it's understandable. I'm aware of this fact. We all are. It's not news. It's a lazy contribution. Warranting only a Partridge, at best.
What we all need to know is:
* how will the depressed person be protected?
* how will the disabled person be protected?
* how will the lonely person be protected?
* how will the eating disordered person be protected?
* how will a victim of emotional manipulation be protected?
* how will patients of unscrupulous doctors be protected?
* how will palliative care itself survive if hospices cannot opt out?
* where will all these medical and funding resources come from?
* how will we ensure NHS patients do not come to fear going to hospital as a gateway to being bumped off?
* how will Secretaries of State use the discretionary powers this Bill gifts to them?
* how will statute resist extension by discrimination caselaw to wider and wider categories of people?
* will private businesses be free to make profits from suicide?
* will private businesses be free to advertise suicide?
* what will happen to people who want to stick around when these end-of-life norms have changed?
If it's words you want to exchange, let's have some.
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@adhib @nmdacosta @SebastianEPayne @TimesRadio 70% of population in favour as well so what next
You have nothing thats of substance.
The use of a meme shows your intelligence leval poor lad then again ignorance is bliss...
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