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.
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!
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!
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 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…
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"
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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The UK is about to legalise partial birth abortion for any reason at all, up to birth.
Partial birth abortion involves delivering the baby halfway through the birth canal - and while it is half-in, half-out, sliding forceps into the baby's skull and sucking its brains out.
See this document from one of the inventors of the procedure. He notes that this is used late in the second trimester, and in the third trimester.
He describes it this way:
"With a lower extremity in the vagina, the surgeon uses his fingers to deliver the opposite lower extremity, then the torso, the shoulders and the upper extremities. The skull lodges at the internal cervical os...
the surgeon takes a pair of blunt curved Metzenbaum scissors in the right hand. He carefully advances the tip, curved down, along the spine and under his middle finger until he feels it contact the base of the skull under the tip of his middle finger...
the surgeon then forces the scissors into the base of the skull or into the foramen magnum. Having safely entered the skull, he spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening...
The surgeon removes the scissors and introduces a suction catheter into this hole and evacuates
the skull contents."
The US Supreme Court cited a nurse's testimony witnessing this procedure from the same doctor:
"Dr. Haskell went in with forceps and grabbed the baby’s legs and pulled them down into the birth canal. Then he delivered the baby’s body and the arms—everything but the head. The doctor kept the head right inside the uterus… .
The baby’s little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall.
The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby went completely limp…
He cut the umbilical cord and delivered the placenta. He threw the baby in a pan, along with the placenta and the instruments he had just used."
The New York Times - a fully pro-choice newspaper - admitted that in the US, advocates of abortion lied about partial birth abortion. Specifically, they noted one of the main advocates of the procedure admitting that it was usually carried out on healthy women with healthy babies, late in pregnancy. This is NOT a necessary procedure for medical reasons:
We have seen a huge resurgence in church attendance this Easter
But Easter isn't just a nice tradition - it is powerful because Jesus really rose from the dead.
This isn't just a metaphor. It is a concrete historical claim - here's the evidence that convinced me to believe:
I could write a whole book on this - and kinda have - but here is a rough outline of the facts that - 2,000 years later - scholars have been completely unable to explain, other than by Jesus rising from the dead.
Short creds: I am an Oxford-trained medical doctor (with some experience in inpatient psychiatry/psychosis), a philosopher with various publications on probability theory, and I have a First Class Master's Degree in Biblical Studies (from a leading secular university), focusing mostly on New Testament history.
Let's start by remembering this happened in an era of concrete history. Shortly after Jesus' life, the Romans destroyed Israel as it was known then, including the Temple in Jerusalem. To this day, the Arch of Titus stands to commemorate this event in 70 AD - just a generation after Jesus. We are not talking about pre-history. We are talking about an era with concrete historical standards and known historical events and people.
Let's start with what non-Christian historians of the period said about Jesus - people with no axe to grind or, in some cases, firmly biased against Christianity. I'll mention just 3, though we have many more.
Josephus is by far the most important historian of 1st century Israel, writing as a Jewish-Roman author in that same century. He said:
“Around this time lived Jesus, a wise man, [if indeed it is right to call him a man]. For he was a worker of amazing deeds and was a teacher of people who accept the truth with pleasure. He won over both many Jews and many Greeks. [He was the [so-called] Messiah]. Pilate, when he heard him accused by the leading men among us, condemned him to the cross, [but] those who had first loved him did not cease [doing so]. [For on the third day he appeared to them alive again, because the divine prophets had prophesied these and myriad other things about him]. To this day the tribe of Christians named after him has not disappeared.”
Many scholars (though not all) believe this passage has some later interpolations from Christians. But even if you take out those parts (bracketed above), there is a broad consensus that Josephus said:
- Jesus was a wise man, a teacher, and a worker of amazing deeds, who won over many Jews and Greeks
- He was condemned to crucifixion by Pilate after accusation by the Jewish authorities
- Despite this crucifixion, his followers continued to follow and venerate him, and Christians still exist to that day.
Josephus, in another totally uncontested passage, says that Ananus, the High Priest,
“assembled the Sanhedrin of the judges, and brought before it the brother of Jesus called Christ, whose name was James, and some others. When he had accused them as breakers of the law, he delivered them to be stoned.” Antiquities, 20.9.1 S200
So we know that Jesus' own brother, James, was martyred in the years following Jesus' death.
We are told that Canada is the wrong place to look (because it is a euthanasia hellhole)
Instead, they say, this bill is based on Oregon
So what is the truth about Oregon's assisted suicide regime? 🧵
Rand Stroup, 53, outlived his initial prognosis of death within 2-4 months, and his doctor recommended stronger chemotherapy.
But his insurer said they weren't willing to pay for this chemotherapy - instead, offering to pay for assisted suicide.
In a stretched NHS, with a stagnating economy and a growing population, it is inevitable we will see the same in the UK
Oregon has followed the crazy regimes of Belgium, Netherlands and Canada in massively increasing suicide rates over time. Assisted suicides in the first year of legalisation were 27. By 2023, this was 367, an over 13-fold increase.
This isn't just fulfilling an already-existing demand. This is normalising and therefore contagiously spreading suicide.
Suicide rates rose from 13.9 per 100,000 in 1999 to 19.3 in 2022. Research shows that when assisted suicide is legalised, more general suicide rates increase (irp.cdn-website.com/c0d44f22/files…).
I once witnessed a Do Not Resuscitate conversation as follows:
- Consultant informed by junior team that one patient "needs a DNAR" - note that the reasons are rarely discussed in any detail at all
- Doctor approaches bed on ward round, in bay in view of other patients
Doctor: Good morning
Patient: Hello
Doctor: So, sometimes in hospital, things can go wrong and so if that happens and your heart stops, I think we'll just let you go quietly, OK?
Patient: *mortified face*... OK?
End conversation
This was the worst case, but there have many cases I've seen that are not too dissimilar
And frankly, any of us who have had elderly relatives in hospital (or work there) can relate. It is actually pretty rare for DNR decisions to be discussed with patients - even rarer for that discussion to happen before the form is signed.
"We can't give you a stairlift, but we can kill you"
The story of Christine Gauthier and euthanasia in Canada 🇨🇦
Last year I had the great honour of meeting Christine Gauthier, a military veteran whose injuries during her military career left her wheelchair-bound. She subsequently became a paralympic hero, winning multiple world championships medals.
In 2022 she had been asking Veteran Affairs for help with a disability lift in her home, saying she can't go on without one and saying it has to be resolved.
In response, Veteran Affairs told her that she had the "right to die".
That's right, instead of a simple lift, she was offered euthanasia by Veteran Affairs. Of course, the latter is far cheaper.
Assisted suicide advocates: "It works well in other countries!"
Reality: In the Netherlands, around 40% of euthanasia deaths are performed without the patient's consent.
Below is the crazy way one prominent euthanasia advocate justifies this
Robert Young wrote the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on euthanasia. He freely admits that around 40% of cases are without the patient's consent:
"of those terminally ill persons who have been assisted to die about sixty per cent have clearly been cases of voluntary euthanasia as it has been characterised in this entry; of the remainder, the vast majority of cases were of patients who at the time of their medically assisted deaths were no longer competent."
This is chilling - he nonchalantly says that "the vast majority" of non-voluntary cases involved a patient who is not competent - that is to say, some of these cases involve a competent patient being euthanised without agreeing to it. This is literally murder.