Marketable Compassion

Supporters and opponents of the assisted dying bill have raised concerns that people may be pushed into seeing death as the only option, and have called for better palliative care as a safeguard. The chair of the health and social care committee, whose party's record on maintaining palliative care is identical with that of the Bullingdon Club, threw down the gauntlet to Wideboy Wesley Streeting, who has opposed the assisted dying bill on the grounds that palliative care isn't good enough. As a mere Secretary of State on behalf of the private sector, Wesley naturally has neither the power nor the desire to repair the situation, as witness his pragmatically nonexistent policy announcements on the subject. The likelihood that greater profits can be made from prolonging pain than from ending it is no doubt purely coincidental.