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Nov 26, 2024, 16 tweets

🚩🚩🚩 Shadowy dark money behind the assisted suicide/euthanasia bill connected to American global population reduction organisations

This is one of the most sinister things I've ever discovered 🧵

Kim Leadbeater, who sponsored this bill, is the Chair of More in Common UK - incidentally not recorded on the Register of MPs interests ()

More in Common has been pushing a lot of the polling in favour of assisted suicide in the media recently.members.parliament.uk/members/common…

This whole campaign is obviously extremely well funded. They have way more publicity than the anti-euthanasia side, e.g. seemingly hiring out half the billboards on London Underground - especially at Westminster where the tunnels are full of them!

So who funds More in Common?

This is where things get super creepy.

The More in Common global website shows that they are funded by various groups. One of their primary funders listed is the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

This organisation has had as one of its core aims, for many decades, the depopulation of the planet. Since 1967 they have given nearly half a billion dollars through their Population Program.

moreincommon.com/about-us/fundi…

hewlett.org/wp-content/upl…

See e.g. their detailed "Population Program Strategic Plan" from 2004:

"Many areas of urgent need remain" in "reducing population growth rates"!

Most of this is for the developing world - note that they are actually aiming for Asia to have a below replacement fertility rate - but killing people in the developed world will also help!

hewlett.org/wp-content/upl…

This isn't incidental. Their brochure on the entire program says that one of their two core aims is depopulation:

hewlett.org/wp-content/upl…

More in Common also has the European Climate Foundation as a major donor (depopulation is an enormous part of climate activism, recall) and - you guessed it - George Soros' Open Society Foundations. I don't think we need to add much more at this point.

Remember that a key argument for euthanasia historically has been the economic burden of elderly people, and now they are seen as an environmental burden too.

This is why the Netherlands has been moving towards allowing euthanasia simply for people with a "completed life" from around 70 years old or so.

Remember Baroness Warnock, who had a huge influence on medical ethics policy in the UK, suggested that dementia sufferers may have a "duty" to die!

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/29…

Or recall Jacques Attali, the prominent European statesman and former head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development:

“As soon as he gets beyond 60-65 years of age, man lives beyond his capacity to produce, and he costs society a lot of money … euthanasia will be one of the essential instruments of our future societies.”

The rest of More in Common is par for the course: their global board is full of WEF types and the usual suspects (moreincommon.com/about-us/gover…). No big surprises.

So the question we have to ask is: what role is the euthanasia bill playing in the global depopulation agenda spearheaded by More in Common's backers? What role is More in Common playing in this? And what role is Kim Leadbeater - who has not listed More in Common on the register of interests - playing too?

Thank you @CharlotteCGill for some of these tips!

@elonmusk may be interested in the euthanasia/depopulation connection!

@CharlotteCGill @elonmusk More of a deep dive herecharlottecgill.co.uk/p/the-assisted…

@CharlotteCGill @elonmusk @yuanyi_z @RajivShah90 @danny__kruger

@CharlotteCGill @elonmusk Well would you look at that

A couple of people have suggested that Kim Leadbeater and her bill have no association with More in Common UK, because her primary connection is with More in Common Batley and Spen. Here's why that's not convincing.

It looks like her "Chair" position is for the local organisation, this is true. This was unclear: she is typically simply referred to as the Chair of "More in Common", neglecting that this is just the local group. Moreover, because the More in Common groups and networks appear to be mostly organised through the Jo Cox Foundation, very little is known about their governance and their connection with More in Common UK, the think tank, which was registered as a company limited by guarantee and therefore difficult to scrutinise. Neither Kim's connections to the Jo Cox Foundation, nor any of the various More in Common entities are mentioned in the register of interests. The only things mentioned there are a variety of football matches, a £10k donation from Labour Together, and a £10k donation from a mysterious James Flinders, about whom little is known but whose apparent X account is full of assisted suicide content: x.com/james_flinders…

But here is why it is silly gaslighting to suggest that there is no relationship between them all. Kim also played a significant role in uniting similar groups across the UK as the More in Common Network, primarily through the Great Get Together, an annual event. This was organised by Kim Leadbeater and Brendan Cox, the widower of tragically murdered MP Jo Cox (Kim's sister): theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

More in Common UK was set up by the same individual, Brendan Cox, as a response to Jo's murder, and with a number of Jo's friends (Tim Dixon, Gemma Mortensen, and later Mable Oranje) who helped organise a memorial event for Jo that Kim spoke at: timeout.com/london/blog/ce…

…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/109005…

Even The Guardian writes that all the More in Common groups are connected: "Almost spontaneously, a group called More in Common was formed and Kim ended up chairing it. From that developed The Great Get Together... More in Common – the name comes from Cox’s indelible quote “we have more in common than that which divides us” – now has partners in France and Germany and the US. The original group still meets locally, too"

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

Obviously, the countries mentioned are those in the global "More in Common" group which receives all that dark money: moreincommon.com/about-us/our-d…

The Guardian mentions in the same article that Brendan had to stand down from both the Jo Cox Foundation and More in Common after multiple sexual allegations against him, noting that Kim referred to his huge part in setting up the foundation. In a separate article, "Leadbeater said she would also continue the work of More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation." after Brendan left: theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

Moreover, the global More in Common website says that "More in Common worked closely with the Jo Cox Foundation to create the Great Get Together in the United Kingdom in 2017, and then make it an annual national moment under the Foundation’s auspices." moreincommon.com/our-work/initi…

To pretend that the global More in Common (of which More in Common UK is a constituent) has nothing to do with Leadbeater's local movement is gaslighting at its finest. They "worked closely to create" their key project!

Even without all this digging, however, it is just obvious that More in Common UK - which is part of More in Common global, which receives all the dark money - is pushing for this bill. If you go on their website (moreincommon.org.uk), the assisted dying polling is front page, even before their welcome section. And if you read the full report, it provides exactly the same messaging as Kim (we should legalise it but with "robust safeguards!!!!" and "just let it pass Second Reading to Committee stage and then we can fix everything!").

So spare me this gaslighting about Kim and her bill having nothing to do with the dark money. All the More in Commons are deeply connected to the bill and to the Leadbeater/Cox families, are clearly pushing for this bill to go through, and - as I said all along - are dependent on the anti-human, pro-death dark money that I described throughout this thread.

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