We’re Killing Ourselves — and the Most Vulnerable

In recent days, the British House of Commons discussed pregnant women and assisted suicide. Lord Charles Falconer, who was Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Tony Blair, said pregnancy should not stop a mother’s assisted suicide:

Nor should poverty.

Nor should autism and other learning disabilities.

Meanwhile, the prime minister of Britain is aware that farmers are planning to kill themselves over taxes if assisted suicide — which he underhandedly pushed forward — becomes legal.

From The Telegraph:

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested he is aware that some farmers are considering taking their own lives to avoid his inheritance tax raid.

The family farm tax will come into force in April, meaning farms worth more than £1m will be taxed at a rate of 20 per cent.

At the Commons liaison committee on Monday, the Prime Minister was asked whether he was “aware that some farmers who have terminal diagnoses are now actively planning to expedite their own deaths” before the tax raid comes into effect.

The Prime Minister said: “I’ve had discussions with a number of individuals who have drawn all manner of things to my attention.”

Asked whether he agreed that nobody should feel they would be “better off dying” before April, he said: “No, of course. But governments have to bring about sensible reform.”

And from the Daily Mail earlier this month:

Fresh questions have been raised about Sir Keir Starmer‘s influence on assisted dying legislation after it was shown how Labour plotted a law change while in opposition.

A leaked document revealed a discussion within Labour – prior to the party winning power – about how a Private Member’s Bill could be used to legalise assisted dying.

The policy note is reported to have been drafted in November 2023, shortly before Sir Keir publicly said it would be ‘appropriate’ to use such a Bill to change the law.

The Prime Minister has long been in favour of legalising assisted dying, based on his experience as a former director of public prosecutions.

Labour’s manifesto ahead of last year’s general election made no mention of assisted dying.

But, shortly after the party won power, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater introduced her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to Parliament as a Private Member’s Bill.

Sir Keir subsequently granted MPs a free vote on the Bill and, while he has personally voted in favour of the legislation, he pledged his Government would remain neutral on the issue.

The emergence of the leaked policy note has brought fresh accusations that Downing Street is secretly aiding the Bill’s passage, despite the public pledge of impartiality.

Impartiality from Downing Street is a ridiculous lie. As human-rights lawyer Paul Coleman recapped last year:

Starmer’s first major decision in public office was to not prosecute an assisted suicide case despite sufficient evidence to do so.

Starmer’s first public interview was dominated by the topic of assisted suicide.

Starmer’s guidance on assisted suicide was among the first official policies he published as DPP.

Additionally, Starmer has spoken about wanting to see the law changed for many years. And yet, despite being leader of the Labour Party and despite committing to parliamentary time on the issue, his party manifesto did not mention assisted suicide.

Instead, a private member’s bill appeared that was sponsored by Kim Leadbeater MP — someone who has no long term pedigree of actively campaigning on the issue.

What we do know about Kim Leadbeater MP is that out of 458 MPs who entered the annual ballot to sponsor a bill of their choosing, she was the first name to be drawn.

We must put up more political resistance before Britain can host its first act of legal assisted suicide.

I know with politics as a never-ending reality TV show it can be hard to realize, but this isn’t a bad dream. This is the West, on the brink of suicide.