Everything we know about the Assisted Dying Bill (from a links/ funding perspective)
A rough list below. I’ve typed this fairly quickly, such is the urgency.
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Campaigners have been trying to push this legislation for decades
You can also tell this from the Companies House profile of Sarah Wootton, CEO of Dignity in Dying, and different names this organisation has been given since as far back as 2007:
In addition to being CEO of Dignity in Dying, Wootton is also CEO of:
The Voluntary Euthanasia Society
and was previously CEO of:
Dignity in Dying (London) (dissolved)
Dignity and Compassion in Dying Limited (dissolved)
Dying with Dignity Limited (dissolved)
Compassion in Dying (active) - the sister organisation of Dignity in Dying
She’s also the former:
Marketing Officer of the Women’s Resource Centre (active), and
Wootton’s X activity makes clear that “Choice at the end - and beginning - of life” is central to Dignity in Dying’s mission…
… and that “Family Planning” is important to her:
All very interesting given how Dignity in Dying pitches itself as about wanting to stop the suffering of people with terminal illnesses…
Wootton was also previously CEO of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, where she is now a trustee:
This matters because the Sheila McKechnie Foundation is funded by Quaker foundations, among others (more on this later). These Quaker foundations are:
The Barrow Cadbury Trust (which has received taxpayer funding)
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
It is also funded by Avaaz, which also funds The Good Law Project (which is also funded by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust). The Good Law Project does a lot of lobbying on environmental policies. I mention this because of the link between environmentalism and the depopulation agenda (the idea that the earth needs fewer people).
To return to the Quaker link…
Ruth Cadbury, the Labour MP for Brentford and Isleworth since 2015, is a sponsor of The Assisted Dying Bill, as well as a Quaker and Humanist. She is part of the Cadbury family and was Director of The Barrow Cadbury Trust (for nine years) and Barrow Cadbury Fund (for 22):
Cadbury sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Choice at the End of Life…
… which is sponsored by Secretariat Dignity in Dying…
Cadbury’s Humanist background also matters.
Humanists are big backers of assisted dying:
Examples from Humanists’ Instagram page:
They seem to work with Dignity in Dying:
Here’s who funds Humanists by the way - including The National Lottery!
Here’s Sian Berry - another sponsor of the Assisted Dying Bill - with Humanists to “discuss assisted dying” among other issues:
Interestingly, the Vice President of Humanists UK is Polly Toynbee:
This is the Guardian columnist who wrote (in 2019) about how population shift meant “young remainers have replaced older leave voters”:
“Enough old leavers will have died and enough young remainers will have come on to the electoral register to turn the dial on what the country thinks about Brexit.”
This brings me onto another interesting link…
Toynbee is Deputy Treasurer of the Fabian Society, and there is a strong connection between Fabians and The Assisted Dying Bill.
Kim Leadbeater, for instance, has worked with The Fabian Society. In 2023, rather ironically, she published a report whose aim was “to ensure people live as well as possible for as long as possible”:
Fabianism is salient, in regards to Assisted Dying, because of George Bernard Shaw’s disturbing views (Shaw being one of the founders of The Fabian Socialist Society):
I object to all punishment whatsoever. I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I want to kill. Not in any unkind or personal spirit. But it must be evident to all of you, you must all know half a dozen people at least, who are no use in this world; who are more trouble than they are worth. And I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioners and say every 5 years or every 7 years, just put them there, and say, sir or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can’t justify your existence; if you’re not pulling your weight in the social boat; if you are not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.
Talking of Fabians…
Another sponsor of the Assisted Dying Bill, Dr Jeevun Sandher, also appears to be one:
Sandher is the product of “The New Economy Organisers Network” (NEON), which I recently covered for Substack. It’s a media-training academy funded by George Soros and Quakers, among others, which helps shape left-wing activists (including Grace Blakeley). You can see Sandher being trained on the left below (with Maya Goodfellow, author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats):
The Soros-funded media school for left-wing activists
What do Miatta Fahnbulleh (Labour’s Minister for Energy Consumers), left-wing author Grace Blakeley and so-called “migration expert” Zoe Gardner (effectively an open border lobbyist, pictured below) have in common?
Another product of NEON is Labour MP Miatta Fahnbulleh, who said she would vote for the Assisted Dying Bill. In a statement she wrote “Polling suggests that two-thirds of Britons support assisted dying in principle.”
The polling she referred to was by More in Common, which is also funded by Soros…
… as well as the John Ellerman Foundation and Barrow Cadbury Trust, which both fund the Sheila McKechnie Foundation…
… which links us back to Ruth Cadbury (on the Left), a sponsor of The Assisted Dying Bill…
And Kim Leadbeater.
More in Common was “founded in the aftermath of the tragic murder of Jo Cox MP in 2016”, her sister.
People have always asked why Leadbeater is pushing this Bill; what’s the personal connection? This is the main one I have found.
To add, Luke Tryl, the Director of More in Common, has told me I’m wrong when I tweeted that Leadbeater is “a puppet for More in Common”:
At the very least, I do not believe she wrote the Bill.
More in Common’s poll takes us onto another part of the Assisted Dying Bill push… propaganda!
The main organisation that has been publicising Assisted Dying is Global, which produces The News Agents…
… and LBC, where Paul Brand has a show. Brand has done a huge amount of tweeting about the Assisted Dying Bill, above and beyond the typical coverage you’d expect for the UK Editor of ITV News:
… even going on this crappy podcast:
Brand’s second job cannot be reiterated enough…
… because Dignity in Dying has a contract with Global - which placed Dignity in Dying’s adverts on the tube:
I wonder how far this advertising contract goes.
Take the fact that last year (in February), another LBC/ Global presenter (at the time), Carol Vorderman, raised the idea of assisted dying on her show, as well as speaking about Esther Rantzen.
Dignity in Dying even replied thanking her for the segment:
(To add, even though Vorderman raised her mother in the segment, she does not know if her mother would have supported the Bill and mentioned that her mother was a Catholic. Vorderman said she personally supported the idea).
Vorderman even wrote about it in her book, which is basically a propaganda book (to make fringe policies sound palatable):
Other presenters have raised assisted dying too:
To add, we still don’t know who funds Dignity in Dying, only that it has a big budget:
It has donated to Leadbeater, albeit small amounts.
Another publication that has been plugging Assisted Dying is The Daily Express:
I think that’s it for now, but I will add any more details I find.
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