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Picture: Members of NDY UK and parliamentary allies in March last year, including Baroness Grey-Thompson (front row, second from right<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Yesterday, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill fell. Not because Parliament voted it down. Not because MPs changed their minds. But it simply ran out of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
For those of us who have been campaigning against this bill, that distinction matters. A lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nWhat Actually Happened<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n\n
The bill passed through the House of Commons twice. But legislation also has to pass through the House of Lords. And in the Lords, peers tabled more than 1,200 amendments \u2014 a record, by some accounts, for a private member\u2019s bill. Around three-quarters came from just nine peers \u2014 roughly one per cent of the Lords \u2014 who looked carefully at what was being proposed and found it deeply wanting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Lord Falconer, who was sponsoring the bill in the Lords, called it \u201cpure obstructionism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nScrutiny Is Not Obstruction<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n\n
The House of Lords exists, in part, precisely to do this \u2014 to slow things down, ask difficult questions, test whether legislation is fit for purpose. And this bill needed testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Its opponents in the Lords identified serious gaps. Gordon Macdonald of Care Not Killing described it as \u201cskeleton legislation riddled with gaping holes.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
That\u2019s a description we recognise.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Not Dead Yet UK has consistently argued that this bill is dangerous for disabled people. Not because we don\u2019t believe in personal autonomy \u2014 we do, passionately. But genuine autonomy requires genuine choice. And that means disabled people must not be pushed, however subtly, towards death because our lives are seen as less worth living, because care is hard to access, because we feel like a burden. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
These are not hypothetical concerns. They are the lived experience of many disabled people right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA Word of Thanks \u2014 and a Word About How Peers Were Treated<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n\n
We want to say something directly to the peers who scrutinised this bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
For taking disabled people\u2019s concerns seriously. For asking the hard questions. For refusing to let flawed legislation pass without proper examination. Baroness Jane Campbell, Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson, Baroness Ilora Finlay and others stood with us when it would have been far easier not to. That took courage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Because they paid a price for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Many were publicly branded as obstructors of democracy. A campaign group rallied outside Parliament under the banner \u201cDemocracy Must Prevail.\u201d Over 200 MPs signed a letter accusing them of \u201cdeliberate delaying tactics.\u201d Peers doing their constitutional job were cast as villains.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
As disabled people \u2014 people who know what it is to be dismissed and talked over \u2014 we find that treatment abhorrent. Scrutiny is not obstruction. And peers who take disability seriously deserve far better than to be publicly denounced for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nIt\u2019s Coming Back<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n\n
Let\u2019s be honest. This is a pause, not a full stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Kim Leadbeater has already said she will try again in the next parliamentary session. There is also talk of using the Parliament Acts, which could, in time, allow the Commons to push legislation through without the Lords\u2019 approval. The pressure to change the law has been building for years, backed by well-funded, well-organised campaigns. One setback will not stop it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
We knew this from the start. Not Dead Yet UK has always been in this for the long game. We go into the next phase, building our network, strengthening our strategy, and learning from what the Scottish Parliament showed last month \u2014 that sustained, well-organised opposition can win.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nStay With Us<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n\n
The news cycle will move on. The bill\u2019s supporters will regroup and come back. We need to be ready \u2014 and that means we need you.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Get on our mailing list if you\u2019re not already. Follow us on social media. And if you\u2019re a disabled person with a story to tell or a family member, carer or ally who wants to get involved \u2014 please get in touch. Your voice matters more than you might think.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
This is a long game. We are in it for the long haul.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Not Dead Yet UK is a disability-led organisation. We oppose assisted suicide and assisted dying laws as forms of disability discrimination. We are secular and independent.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<\/section><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By NDY UK\u2019s Convenor Phil Friend. April 25, 2026, as it appeared on NDY UK\u2019s website HERE. Picture: Members of NDY UK and parliamentary allies in March last year, including Baroness Grey-Thompson (front row, second from right) Yesterday, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill fell. Not because Parliament voted it down. Not because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7029392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[13524,6795,44726,1180,11105,47373,11556,14279],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7029391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-assisted","tag-bill","tag-expires","tag-fight","tag-fourth","tag-ndy","tag-ready","tag-suicide"],"yoast_head":"\n
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