The assisted suicide debate is back in the House of Lords again today. Yesterday afternoon, 64 peers, and the retired Baroness Meacher, wrote to all peers urging them not to block the Bill, saying “it is not our role to frustrate the clear democratic mandate” of the Commons. How do those receipts check out?
Well, 21 of them were perfectly happy to vote to block the 2014 European Union (Referendum) Bill, a Private Member’s Bill which had passed the Commons. Not to mention the endless blocking and frustrating of Brexit in the Lords, which dragged on for years…
Some peers also commented that they hadn’t received the letter more than three hours after it was sent to Paul Brand, a journalist who has campaigned for the legalisation of assisted suicide. He seemed to receive the letter before any members of the House of Lords. Funny that…