Out of 18 MPs representing Northern Ireland;

Obviously Sinn Fein didn't vote, but the combination of all Unionists parties opposing assisted dying and SF/Alliance/SDLP allowing a free vote would certainly mean the "Nos" would have it if a bill was introduced to Stormont.

by spicesucker

12 comments

  1. Religious nutcases govern our every move here. Not much changes.

  3. I’ve only been marginally paying attention to this but wasn’t this only for England and Wales? Why would an NI MP be casting a vote one way or another for something that won’t come into effect here anyway?

  4. And a good thing to. Hastily poorly written legislation has a habit of being bad legislation

  5. Westminster can just bulldoze it through Stormont whenever they want. Presumably they’ll just keep that in their pocket as a threat for the next time the DUP collapse it.

  6. But what if i just want to do myself in? Shud a nat be allowed to?

  7. Considering the suicide rates here I think we have it already, so they should just pass it tbh.

  8. It’s matters little. The next time SF or the DUP collapses the assembly over some petty squabble(and they will) Westminster will just bring it in over their heads. Like they did with gay marriage and abortion. The only people that ever bring progress here is ironically “*the Brits*”.

  9. They’re a consistent bunch of backward hallions here. Not so long since Paisley Sr was trying to ”save ulster from sodomy”, in between banning ELO as ”devil music” and trying to ban alcohol at a beer festival. But then Stormont is after all the world’s most expensive toddler group & Westminster will simply overrule them if it comes to it.

  10. It might help if they called it something different.

    “Assisted dying” sounds worse than the “right to choose your end of life support”.. Even though they would mean the same thing…

    We already have assisted dying anyway. They already pump drugs into people whose pain is too much to live comfortably (It’s how a friend of mine passed). They wouldn’t die without these drugs.

    All this bill does is allow people to make the choice for themselves, before their pain gets too great.

  11. I wouldn’t expect Stormont to take action on it. Too much of a political powder keg that could blow up on any elected representative who speaks their mind either way on the issue.

    If pressed, you could see statements of ‘wanting to observe how the law plays out in England’ before looking at potential legislation for NI. That would buy 5 years at least.

  12. Tbh, I think legalising assisted dying is a dangerous move

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