Starmer's Britain - Where Soylent Green meets Logan's run.

 

Welcome to Starmer's Britain where Soylent Green meets Logan's run. Under its Assisted Dying Bill, the Labour government are now proposing to contract out to private companies the role of death "assisters" in an assisted dying euthanasia programme that will operate for profit.

Labour now claims that welfare spending in Britain is 'unsustainable' and that welfare spending needs to be cut. Labour also says that they're not the party for people on state benefits but the party for people in work. Labour believes that cutting people's welfare payments or ending them, will act as a goad to getting people back into work. Around 38 per cent of people in receipt of Universal Credit (UC), are already in work. They claim UC to top up their low wages or have caring responsibilities.

Could Labour's Assisted Dying Bill be a way of eliminating the unproductive in society and cut welfare spending? Could it become a form of 'geri-neglicide'? Under the latest version of the Bill, any corporate killings would be exempt from investigation by a coroner; exempt from licensing requirements opening the door to a 'corporate cottage' death industry with no mandatory qualifications; exempt from regulation and any statutory duties and exempt from scrutiny by the UK's Chief Medical Officer. Death assisters will also be indemnified from being sued by the families of those killed.

We already know from the inquiry into the Liverpool End of Life Care Pathway that was carried out by Baroness Neuberger in 2013, that NHS hospital trusts were given financial inducements by the government to put some patients on end-of-life palliative care. Many were denied food and water and put under sedation to hasten death. Some believe that this is still continuing in many hospitals throughout the country.