That's Life

Esther Rantzen and her family are still peddling her publicity material from 40 years ago. But she was not part of the Constitution then, and she is certainly not now. For that, we must look elsewhere.

If the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill were given Second Reading with fewer than 326 votes in the House of Commons, then it ought to be refused Second Reading in the House of Lords. It is a Private Member's Bill, and it does not give effect to anything in the manifesto of the party than won the General Election, so unless the majority of MPs had voted for it, then Peers should throw it out.

Only today, we have the scandal of the Single Justice Procedure. Yet we run the risk of giving that same courts system the power to have us killed by the NHS, which is likewise the State, the same State that has been forcing autistic children into padded rooms, throwing them to the floor, restraining them by the neck, and leaving them to sit in vomit.

Adultery and desertion were not criminal offences, but by recognising them as grounds for divorce, society used to express its disapproval of them. We have lost that, and we are on the verge of losing, in the criminalisation of its assistance, our societal disapproval of suicide.

Tomorrow is Friday, so a number of MPs will be absent on constituency business. Usually, that might have done. But not this time. What will they be doing that was more pressing than life and death?