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  • ‘UK’ Parliament kills the Assisted Dying Bill: Now begins its own slow, agonising death.

    The passage through the ‘UK’ Parliament since the June 2025 vote in favour of the well thought out, common sense, logical, pragmatic, biologically aligned, majority public supported Bill to the 11th September 2026 ‘defeat’ in the same Parliament provides a useful snapshot of the State of Constitutional Chaos in the ‘UK’ of the present time.

    June 2025 to September 2026 is one calendar year change, or Solar year with that being the time it takes for Earth (the spinning mass of rock and molten material with a little layer of earth and water along a varied topography on its surface, and what used to be thick ice at the poles, held in place by the gravity of Sol and motion, for Earth moves very fast), and plus one quarter of a Solar year as making three months, so one year of Sol and one quarter year. In the 4.5 billion years of Earth spinning in space, this is not much. So the question is, how does the same Parliament make a different vote in such a short space of time?

    The Private Members Bill of 2025 brought by Kim Leadbeater, a Labour MP, being talked out by the House of Lords in the last Parliamentary session – a purely human construct – was catastrophic enough for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That the HoL took it upon itself to be greater than Parliament creates a constitutional crisis.

    In March 2025 the Tynwald (Parliament of the Isle of Man) passed its Assisted Dying Bill, with the Upper House making a few amendments, as is the role of such a process, sorting them out, and passing the Bill.

    In February 2026 the government in Jersey, the Channel Islands, passed its own Assisted Dying Bill. This blog is interested in governance as a principle and government as the action, so the name of a Parliament is actually irrelevant. It’s the function which is relevant. And in 2026, i.e., within the year of Sol, it had received Royal Assent, and within half a year of Sol.

    Why does such a Bill require Royal Assent?

    Why was the Isle of Man Bill delayed? Because the UK Parliament believed the unwritten elements of protection did not meet the European Convention on Human Rights, under which they must be stated. And in the Isle of Man where life is close to the real facts of life, such detailed statements would likely not be required because under this practical Bill only the logical outcome would happen. And that is a person entering the last stages of a one-way, terminal illness, and themselves not wishing to go through hell or put those around them through hell. The logic is so obvious that in places where governance is functional, such endless adherence to artificial Conventions would never be considered. But the Isle of Man has been put through the hoops. The ‘UK’ Ministry of Justice requires there to be absolutely no coercion, because mainland Britain sees nothing but coercion. On the Isle of Man, life is more practical and people who are in the last period of their life, facing a bad end, are believed. So as yet, no Royal Assent for the Isle of Man.

    And back in the Westminster Parliament, another Private Member’s Bill, from another Labour MP, now Lauren Edwards. The same Bill – exactly the same logical, factual, well worded Bill – was back in Parliament after the House of Lords had taken constitutional matters into their own hands, but this time we have a new Prime Minister. And that same Bill is now killed in the Parliament by the MPs themselves.

    One clear reason was given that the MPs voting against the Bill, killing it, believed those not wishing to face the inevitable bad death only wanted a peaceful passing because there was not enough money given to social care. The curious thing is that the last two Private Members Bills were brought by Labour MPs, yet it is the Labour Party which pumps up the balloon of the State to the point now where everything is about to burst. The Labour Party are in power in the ‘UK’, and the new Prime Minister, rather than taking the opportunity to grasp hold of this matter, of which the majority of the public are in favour, has managed to steer it firmly towards his own agenda of ‘social care’, whatever that means. And when it is boiled down, it means nothing at all.

    The violent hatred of groups like Care not Killing who believe the Assisted Dying Bill would have continued through those nearing a bad end and started on disabled people, whatever that means, elderly people, whatever that means, and generally become a force for bad in society, are jubilant no doubt. The House of Lords must be happy it showed how much power it has over Parliament, and those who vocalised in Parliament against the latest Private Members Bill have stated that ‘when social care is properly financed then they might think about the Assisted Dying Bill,’ but this is all hostage to the wrong thing.

    End of life is end of life, the biology shows it, and on the planet Earth, circling around Sol every 365 days give or take a few seconds, and in that time itself spinning 365 times to give night and day, nothing has changed for human reality. We are born, we live, we die. This blog being a polytheist blog writes from the perspective of body and spirit and gods, but for the body, we die. The life force leaves the body.

    The giant tortoise is the longest living land animal, and one giant tortoise living on Saint Helena is believed to be about 190 years old. Some sea creatures which are living but not active lives of waking and sleeping and moving around a lot, like coral for example, can be very, very old, but they will still die sometime. There is no medical systems, no drug companies, no World Health Organisation, and no supermarkets in the natural world. Everything is living and dying into the natural world, both eating each other and enabling each other in the beautiful network which is Life itself. And now within the ‘UK’ constitutional powers, Jersey inhabitants can partake of natural processes, and Royal Consent confirms the validity of both the legal process and the practice. It cannot be long before the Isle of Man follows the logical function of government.

    Alas for the Westminster Parliament and the House of Lords, and all those organisations and vocal disabled people who believed they ‘would be killed’, the chaotic last Solar year and a quarter under which human biology has not changed, the clarity of those wishing to avoid a bad and inevitable end has not changed, the bones and muscles and neural networks of government have lost their connection. Biology creates an entity, and societal cohesion of bees and ants and seagulls and beavers is not in any written statute or a centralised building, but exists as much a part of existence as the biology itself. It can be seen as natural laws, because laws of any sort regulate the subject matter. The biology is indivisible from the societal network, and a societal network is underpinned by laws.

    Such is history in western Europe, we are where we are, but if the biological facts of life remain the same, a human is born and it dies, but it’s societal network is dictated by a structure which is neither part of the real natural world, and now correlate neither with the citizen body nor the real facts of existence, governed by Sol, Helios, an ghrian, then what happens from here as Parliament begins its slow and public demise.

  • The British Parliamentary system in a civil war

    Multi directional civil war, what happens next?

    2026 in UK politics and the wording is getting violent. The inewspaper 26.01.26 described the manoeverings between Andy Burnham and Sir Kier Starmer as civil war. The general definition of civil war is different factions within a jurisdiction fighting full on fight to seize power in opposite to one country fighting another in the modern nation state, and different to straightforward tribal warfare because the tribes form a different grouping by ethnicity and language even if in close geographical proximity and however subtle compared to the whole of human groupings on Earth (the spinning mass of rock with a tiny life zone around it, contained within the atmosphere and held in place by Helios). A civil war is amongst citizens within the same administration and used to be pure physical normal fighting, and not at all civil.

    The general tone of media and observation is that politics is getting more heated, more complicated, more personal, and with more at stake now with global definitions and actions instead of local or regional, and bigger and bigger projects like HS2 or strange projects like building a vast AI data centre, and the scale of the trouble is looming equally tall with more blame from party to party. Party to party warring talk could never be described as civil war because the different political parties form a different jurisdiction, no different to a state in that sense because the boundary is clear that one political party is not another, even if a politician changes party, the party definitions stay the same.

    It struck this writer a while ago when the Deputy Leader of the Labour party was up for vote, because that is already a division within the same and you would think that the leader of the Labour party would be wanting to appoint his or her deputy, or rather his, because there has not been a female leader of the Labour party to date (and possibly everything could descend into a fine emotional mess if there was). But the leader has to work closely with someone elected by another process other than leader perogative.

    A mayor of Manchester and a Prime Minister in the House of Commons in such heightened speculations and possible conflict if the present Mayor of Manchester does indeed want the throne, Parliamentary throne that is, is beginning to sound like the centuries olde way of doing business which was by power, physical action which produced a clear result, and which more closely resembles the natural world than the modern British political system. Use of the term civil war for the political system is reasonable – and reasonable in that sense is fair, relevant, apt. Trying to build a political administration on reasonableness is not really reasonable and it is all looking like something is about to unravel, not just within the Labour party but across the political groupings in the crumbling and leaking Palace of Westminster, House of Commons to you and me.

    Over the question of the Assisted Dying Bill, at present being held up by every possible toe and finger hold that the Lords and Ladies who are so personally against it can find, yet which has been voted through twice – twice – in the House of Commons for part of the ‘UK’ of England and Wales, that could also be seen as a civil war, one Parliamentary institution fighting another. And set against the strange assumption of power again by the House of Lords to state that the ‘UK’ must ban social media for young people, like Australia is doing, is an equal and opposite war against the Commons. If the House of Lords can set out to block a legislation where their only power it to work on it to get it passed, and at the same time set out their own statement that a law should be passed on social media, what does this say constitutionally? Do the House of Lords want to change places with those in the Commons? That is what civil war means, a fight for the top power of which only one person or party can hold.

    We have no written Constitution in the ‘UK’, no wish to return to pre the welfare state days or big State providing much of life, and no court of philosophy over and above all the state institutions. So if the system does fragment and a civil war between the Lords and Commons does bring down the credibility of the Commons, as seems the Lord intend over the hold up of the Assisted Dying Bill for Terminally Ill Adults, what on earth happens? The Earth will not change, but society in the ‘UK’ only references human made systems and such a situation has no framework for a governing system which collapses in on itself. One year on, just into 2027, what of governance in the ‘UK’? It is a really serious impasse.

  • The Assisted Dying Bill: House of Lords kills the Commons

    …. in attempt to block the humane Bill to allow a peaceful passing of those with a terminal illness facing a bad end.

    It’s a complicated matter this process of the Assisted Dying Bill currently passed by the Commons on 20th June 2025 by the 314 in favour, 291 against. Sure, this is a pretty close vote but still a clear vote for the Bill, but Parliament is not the population of the ‘UK’, England and Wales, Britain, however that is said. This Bill is for citizens in England and Wales, and the same Bill content for Scotland is currently at Stage 3 in Holyrood, where again MSPs are not the population, only the representatives of the function of governance. Within the citizen opinion, including Christians, medical staff, vets of course because with animals that is considered the kindest and most obvious course of action and how barbaric it would be otherwise, some hospice staff, some like Markus Campbell-Savours MP who started as opposing the change in law and then looked at the evidence and the facts and changed his vote, and the so many people who don’t quite know how it would work because it is a change but who have witnessed awful and prolonged scenes of someone they know very well and simple biological normality says that is wrong to prevent someone passing out of hell on earth and into a peaceful passing on to avoid the hideous suffering and forced medical applications and leaving their loved ones traumatised for their own remaining lifespan.

    Those against the Bill use a lot of air time and press space and Parliamentary time and now the House of Lords time to give their own personal opinion. Amongst the general public, the overwhelming percentage is for this facility to be available, and it is through the Commons, just required to be scrutinised in the Lords (and Ladies), but under the umbrella of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the role of the Lords is only to scrutinise what is moving through, not to take hijack.

    If anything has shown up the strange state of affairs in the ‘UK’, the devolved ‘countries’, the power that ‘medicine and science’ now has, the departure from realities of a biological human being, the new power of the individual opinion over the power of an individual to say they’ve had enough suffering, and the question of governance in where does that yes or no exist in practice, then this Bill has it all.

    You’d think that any MP, MSP or HoL member on the left of centre (that’s how ‘UK’ politics is defined) would be very against this Bill because the State now has full control over an individual and is kind and prevents all suffering etc., and it would be the ‘right’ who still understand functional processes who would be on block behind it, but this Bill has had every cross reference and juxtaposition possible. Lord Charlie Falconer, with the solid government legal career and the long time brains and philosophy behind the Parliamentary processes of this issue and Kim Leadbeater MP who has succeeded to at last reach this common sense of the Commons and a vote For, both are in the Labour camp. The Conservative Leader of the House of Lords has said, ‘Peers are entitled to scupper the defective Assisted Dying Bill,’ and the usual vocal range of individuals who are dead set against it for religious zealot or ‘disabled protectors’ are not looking at the function of scrutinising a Bill to make implementation as well worked as possible, but the opposite, no matter what the Parliament Acts say, now matter what the majority of citizens want, no matter the vote in the Commons June 2025, the House of Lords are declaring they are not part of the parliamentary process but their own empire. How bizarre a juxtaposition is that. Because in trying to find every blocking move possible, from time to objections to fake questions on more clarity, to make this Bill die a quiet and low key death (just what the Bill wants to give genuinely suffering terminally ill people), the Lords are killing the parliamentary process itself, and even if this Bill does make it through the hijacking of the Lords, still the parliamentary process will be shown now to be made up of individuals out for their own agenda.

    This perilous situation could show a constitutional crisis if really scrutinised, which is probably not a good idea to do, the evidence and reality is too awful to contemplate. The Island of Man in March 2025 completed its process, with citizens, both Houses of the Tynwald Parliament all pretty much on the same page. After years of debate yes, but the process was smooth, the upper house agreed some amendments, the Bill had been brought by a GP himself, and good clarity is written in and all ready to go. Ready to go that is for the folks of the Isle of Man, but go that is for final assent because the Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency therefore the Crown of the ‘UK’ is going to be granting the final permission for what has already smoothly moved through the Tynwald.

    Furthermore, the approval of Assisted Dying law in Jersey’s State Assembly in May 2024 and a draft law published last September 2025 and which is now undergoing the usual scrutiny and discussion which is the job of those in governance, and hardly likely to have the same scenes of the House of Lords, Jersey also will be waiting patiently with their large parchment, waiting for that Royal Seal of Approval.

    How curious is this under constitutional law. The Crown has power over Crown Dependencies in matters of military and international relations, and Assisted Dying for somebody pretty much there already is you would think hardly a military matter and definitely nothing to do with international relations. Quite the opposite really, it is the most domestic, most basic, most biological and natural thing possible, way below politics or the bigger picture of society. So what a curious situation that the smooth passage of the Isle of Man Assisted Dying Bill is just waiting for King Charles to give his assent, while the famous Palace of Westminster and the House of Lords are in this difficult political balance, and the Scottish Holyrood Parliament have also the individuals who cannot think outside of their own heads and lives and would very much like the Stage 3 to be killed and not become law. What a strange situation.

    If King Charles signed the document and gave it a great big wax seal, pressed his ring into it and said, ‘Well done guys, you’ve done a great process there, lucky citizens in the Isle of Man,’ what would happen in the House of Lords and in Holyrood opponents? It would highlight the really really tenuous historical basis within the ‘UK’ and in these times of the collapsing ‘world stage (only a Shakesperian fiction and yet another fiction the ‘UK’ built its modern framework on) the governance of the physical land area of Britain in the general sense and those 3 Crown Dependencies of Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey.

    King Charles, and his late mother, are people who understand the natural world, despite the royal birth both understand biology and the practicalities of running rural life and the inevitability of birth leading to passing on because that is what existence is within this atmosphere on the spinning mass of Earth, so what would happen if in this bizarre stand off, King Charles was to seal his great Seal on that straightforward legislation in the Isle of Man, and have the wax warmed ready for Jersey to present their parchment? For the sake of the present confusion in the ‘UK’ this would be a very simple solution to end the impasse and to show the facts.