Sky News reports on the ongoing palava over the assisted dying bill in the UK:
Labour MP Florence Eshalomi rises next to speak in opposition to the bill, as she did at second reading last year "on the grounds of inadequate safeguard against the coercion of minority communities".
Eshalomi also states that a Private Member's Bill is not "the appropriate mechanism for a national decision of this magnitude to be made", and the government should lead on such a change, rather than an MP "without an elected mandate" (a reference to Kim Leadbeater).
Dame Esther Rantzen is also criticized for her intervention in support of the bill but then, as I'm sure Esther would be the first to tell you, That's Life!
Apparently this 'decision', that may result in the willing death of a few thousand UK citizens a year is a decision of 'magnitude', that seems more important to the government than the decision to supply weapons to kill hundreds of thousands of people in far-off countries like Gaza, Russia, Ukraine and Yemen who certainly did not want their dying to be 'assisted'.
Perhaps MPs should be looking outside of the UK for the true 'coercion of minority communities'.