Labour peer Lord Brooke has offered his pearls of wisdom on the Assisted Dying Bill debate today:
“…That’s a minor change compared with this century’s growth in the world population from 6.1 billion to 8.2 billion. A 25% increase in 25 years. But just think what the 2025 numbers would be if abortion had not been legalised. Or there had not been widespread usage and advocacy of contraception. And indeed the growth of homosexuality throughout society has reduced the number of children we would have had, had the churches had their way. We would’ve had a very much bigger population than we presently have facing the difficulties we have with climate change.”
Right. Inevitably, it’s sparked outrage…
Is Lord Brooke, sitting one seat along from the sponsor of the Bill, advocating for assisted dying as a tool of population control? An extraordinary contribution suggesting human life be actively sacrificed to prevent climate change. This bill drives utilitarian thinking! pic.twitter.com/hRFbqGbQWU
— Nikki da Costa (@nmdacosta) September 19, 2025
If there was ever a clip that should give every citizen of the United Kingdom pause, it is this utterly grotesque and quite terrifying contribution to the assisted suicide debate by Lord Brooke. https://t.co/Lt49ygiScO
— Anthony Horan (@AHoran79) September 19, 2025
Bloody hell. https://t.co/fDZtroDNtN
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) September 19, 2025
The mask has slipped…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”