Assisted Suicide "Safeguards"

Where have we heard that one before?

Capital punishment is one of the two ultimate expressions of statism as idolatry, the other being nuclear weapons. And assisted suicide, the legally authorised and even publicly funded killing of people falling into categories defined by the State, would be a form of capital punishment, which in the ordinary sense of the term was also always voluntary, in that judges never had to apply it, and did not always do so even in murder cases.

Even as things stand, Keir Starmer has never brought a prosecution for assisted suicide under the Suicide Act 1961. It could not be clearer that the Crown Prosecution Service should be abolished, and that all rulings of the new "Supreme Court" should be made subject to ratification by resolution of the House of Commons, without which such rulings would have no effect.

There is also a strong case for once again requiring its judges to sit in the House of Lords; as much as anything else, much good work was quietly done by their Peers, especially bishops, in having injustices called in for review.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is nothing other than the High Court of Parliament. But instead, we now have Starmer and his mates on the Bench making up the law to suit themselves.