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State funeral for Maggie

by ChiefDragon 3 months ago
Last updated 2 months ago.

Maggie

So it has been decided that Margaret Thatcher will have a state funeral costing 3 million pounds when she finally shuffles off this mortal coil (Jason.beattie@mirror.co.uk).

This for the woman who singled handedly closed mines, steel works and shipyards putting thousands on the dole, and who introduced the dreaded poll tax which finally saw her downfall.

Ex-miner and Labour MP Ronnie Campbell was told he could not oppose this decision in the house of commons, by who the article doesn’t say.

The only other person to have a state funeral, who wasn’t royalty, is Sir Winston Churchill who guided this country through WW2.

I for one am totally against spending OUR money on such an event in what is now fast becoming a recession period expected to last for a number of years.

Any printable thoughts???

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  1. Lazarus Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Hear hear Chief. If we could, the money should come solely from a southern budget, as she did the north no favours in 18 years!

  2. JosephPublicski Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I agree and I’m a tory. Maggie Thatcher had some good points but lacked compassion and became a meglamaniac, just bury her.

  3. TheBreaker Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Does this mean not long to go?

  4. Lazarus Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I think the tories already have Joseph.

  5. ChiefDragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sounds that way JN,I think the only good thing to come out of Maggie was her daughter Carol she seems down to earth and quite funny at times. Perhaps the government thinking is we’ll leak it now and when the time comes the electorate will have forgotten the cost. AS IF!

  6. TheBreaker Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I agree apart from looks you wouldn’t think Carol is her daughter.

  7. MikeCovell Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Why not cremate her, and use her ashes to fill in some of the pot holes on the roads!

  8. TheBreaker Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    is the money for a massive party after?

  9. Lazarus Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Bury her in the Falklands, seeing as she thought so much of them.

  10. Colombo Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Has anyone asked her opinion?

  11. Chromosome23 Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I’m all for it…and the sooner the better.

  12. Lazarus Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I don’t know about spending 3 million on her funeral, but I’d certainly like to spend a penny on her grave.

  13. BobM Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    As Harold Wilson once said "she is the best man they have got " (tory party) grudging praise from him. She was detested by Ted Heath who said that she had turned this country into a state that now takes in it’s own washing (refering to the loss of manufacturing industries and rise in service related work. Margaret Thatcher stopped the school milk for kids, privatised most of our utilities, created a get rich quick attitude in a shareholders free for all, allowed the buying of council property at knock down prices, fought like hell in Europe for Britains rebates, she rode roughshod over the Scottish by introducing the poll tax there first. Would she have allowed the country to become a benefit claimants heaven, personally I dont think so. I have no axe to grind regarding Maggie, what I do know is that whatever your politics you will not be likely to see a leader of her strength of character for many years.

  14. PHILBONZO Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Politics aside (I couldn’t stand her) I don’t think it’s right to spend that amount of money. How many teachers/nurses/firefighters etc could they pay for a year on that amount of money?

  15. Red-Dragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    State Funeral for Maggie as there was for Winston – two of the greatest (possibly only) leaders this country has ever had. I am sure they both made many mistakes, but they were strong, stuck to their guns and did not cow-tow to the Yanks, as opposed to these wet, lily livered wastes of space we have had before and particularly since.

  16. Colombo Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    When Maggie Thatcher came to power, we had single glazing, one black and white TV, and could just afford a week’s holiday in Southport. I used to cycle to work to save putting petrol in our 7 year old car, and had just got another job after being made redundant.

    On the day that she resigned, my wife & I had just taken delivery of a brand new car each, had a colour TV in each bedroom and the lounge, had full double glazing throughout and took two holidays a year in The Canaries. I’d also been through another redundancy.

    Would I have someone like her back? Too **y true I would.

  17. PHILBONZO Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I dispute whether we should do this for anyone though. You two may love her but you have to accept she’s not universally liked…

    Why not put your money where you mouth is. I reckon there’s 3 million people like you who think it’s a good idea. Send a quid each to Tory party HQ.

  18. pumbles Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    We can only hope she has the same sense of decency and honour as Disreali, and refuse it.

  19. cainpringle Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    she will have the only cold room in hell-

  20. pumbles Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    That should be Disraeli, blame the keyboard again. :)

  21. Lazarus Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Good man Disraeli. Not too bad novelist either.

  22. pumbles Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I can see why you think that, Lazurus, he was more of a socialist than many Labour governments.

  23. Lazarus Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It’s nice to know someone who shares an interest in social history pumbles, and a social future. Most people only know Disraeli as that horrible Prime Minister who destroyed Queen Victoria’s love in Mrs Brown!

  24. MikeCovell Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Diana had flower’s thrown at her coffin, wonder what they will throw at Maggie’s? Coal?

  25. Colombo Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Was it Gladstone who, explaining the difference between a disaster and a catastrophe, said that:

    "If Mr Disraeli were to fall into the Thames, it might be considered a catastrophe. If someone were to pull him out, that would be a disaster".

  26. MikeCovell Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It was the opposite Colombo, Benjamin Disraeli said it about Gladstone!

  27. Colombo Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Thanks, Mike. I knew it was one or the other.

  28. MikeCovell Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It was during a period of political unrest when social reforms were knocking at the door!

    Everybody hated everybody back then!

  29. ChiefDragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I doubt that people will turn out in force as they did for Diana’s funeral Mike.

    Would you really waste that penny on Maggie, Laz?

  30. Frogman Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    She thought she was more Royal and important than the Queen. Even the Queen detested her!

  31. ChiefDragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I read the article again Frogman and the Queen’s in favour of a state funeral, maybe wants to be sure she’s gone once and for all.

  32. MikeCovell Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The Queen just want’s another knee’s up!

  33. ChiefDragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sound’s good to me Mike!

  34. bigphewrader Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ChiefDragon err thousands on the dole..? TRY tens if not hundreds of thousands on the dole…& repercussions going into the & past the millenium..

  35. ChiefDragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sorry Bigphew! I stand corrected,the mind gets fuzzy with age lol.

  36. karl Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I would pay for the privilege to take her in a bin wagon to the nearest tip and dump her like she did so many others. I bet even the crows would not want to touch her scabby tory carcass.

  37. JosephPublicski Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Mrs Thatcher was such a good leader, so much so that her own party showed her the door. Those who think she is worth three million pounds should start a fund, and whilst we are talking about the Thatcher family can someone tell me why Mark Thatcher is a Sir. That as to be a joke. Re. Maggie, just dig a hole and bury her, yews as someone said, on the Falklands.

  38. MarioTheGibbon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    why isn’t she a feminist icon?

  39. Lazarus Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Because she never showed her feminine side.

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    MarioTheGibbon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Behind the hectoring caricatures—Attila the Hen, TBW— a far more charming, feminine side existed and was employed to get her own way. “Perhaps we were a little bit in love with her,” one young man who worked for her recalled. She enjoyed male company, female less so (the Queen was said to dislike their weekly meetings). Staff at No. 10 adored her for the thousand small kindnesses she showed, such as asking after the health of an ailing family member. This was not the uncaring tyrant of cartoonists. On occasion she appeared blissfully unstreetwise, most famously when she declared in admiration of her faithful deputy, Willie Whitelaw, “Every prime minister needs a Willie.”

    [historynet.com]

  41. Colombo Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Like Roy Hatteresley claiming he always called a spade, a spade.

  42. AR-T0NY Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    She always tried to examine every argument in great detail, however she never grasped the fact that Ted Heath, when he signed the Treaty Of Rome, had signed all our historic and future rights to resist EC made law away. Maybe too much of a sweeping statement, but essentially true, nonetheless!

    Friends and colleagues of mine, who held lengthy discussions with her over jobs and inward investment for our fish market, were all very impressed by her.

    None of my colleagues would ever have voted for her, but they walked away full of respect and admiration. Who knows, maybe they will attend, come the day.

  43. MarioTheGibbon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    "Margaret Thatcher stopped the school milk for kids…" the removal of school milk was initiated under the previous wilson [labour] government. thatcher merely extended the policy under education budget cost-cutting.

  44. AR-T0NY Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Answer to above question re `Sir’ Mark. His title is solely due to his mother’s.

  45. barrycoleridge Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    hell is waiting-she will be in the deepest bowel i hope.

  46. pumbles Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I think you will find Sir Mark is so called because he is now a Baronet, 2nd Baronet, of Scotney, inheriting the title from his father, Sir Dennis Thatcher who was created a Baronet in 1991.

  47. AR-T0NY Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Yes! Spot on!

  48. BobM Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Dont let the facts blur the truth Edd, she did stop school milk it matters not that the previous lot thought of it first. This woman was adored by millions in the southern half of England, in the north it was a bit different. She was like The Curates Egg, good in parts.

  49. Denise-Perry Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Absolutely. I am a Thatcher supporter. She has been the best post war leader this country has had. As the first female PM in history, longest serving PM winning 3 unpresidented elections. Her policies were adopted throughout the western world being emulated in USA. She was revered as a force to recon with in Europe not letting countries such as Germany, France have it all their own way. She made most brits proud to be British holding our head high when travelling abroad. Enabled council house tenants to buy their house and join the housing market. Protected British sovereignty in the Falklands. Paid back massive British debt. Stopped the unions being able to defeat elected governments which brought chaose to the country as Britain was the "striking" joke of the world. As for the poll tax, what a fair system this was everyone paying their fair share for services. I know I was better off under that scheme.

    Oh that I wish there was another Maggie in government today – she would certainly have my vote.

  50. Norman.Hawkes Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    "This for the woman who singled handedly closed mines, steel works and shipyards putting thousands on the dole"

    Or you could say she was the person who dragged Britain into the modern-day and set-up conditions for the unprecedented boom experienced since her reign by having the courage to rid Britain of dying industries which had no hope whatsoever of competing with Korea, China etc. Where on earth would be all be now if we still had the ship-builders and steel works haemorraging money? She may not have been perfect (who is) and may have made mistakes but she had vision and the courage to finally see off dying industries and rid us of millstones like the Dock Labour Scheme forever.

  51. Chromosome23 Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Quite right. Maggie was a wonderful woman. Thanks to her and her ilk, we are all enjoying the fruits of the unfetterred market…dodgy endowment policies…credit crunch…errr..Northern Rock….

  52. Lazarus Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Very good Norman, and what is Britain famous for now those dying industries have been mercifully culled? Perhaps shopping? Maybe Local Government? Please help me, because outside of the commercialist programme Thatcher set us upon, I really don’t see Great Britain producing anything that great. Perhaps a greater leader would have turned a dying, or, more precisely, an unprofitable industry into a profitable one?

    You slumbering middle-class tories seem to forget the government had mine closures on the cards well before 1984, and caved in to the miners in 1981 with a 9% payrise just to carry them over the Falklands incident. Shame they didn’t use that 9% to invest in the mines and downscale the size of operations over the next ten years. Rather than turn out 40,000 men & close 10,000 dependent businesses, destroy entire communities without any plan whatsoever to sustain and manage the after-effects; a pattern repeated right across the North, from Liverpool to Hull to Glasgow.

    Thatcher was not a strong Prime Minister, she was the weakest. She took the easy decisions, to close mines, to go to war rather than negotiate peace, to sell off council houses (homes fit for heroes I believe) rather than stand the maintenance bill, sell off school playing fields to private developers. And what was worse of the woman, she didn’t care about the consequences that would entail, just as long as the City was safe she never cared about anything.

    And now the apologists stand by her, even though her entire cabinet was either corrupt, incompetent, or both. Well, this certainly speaks volumes about the conscience of those slumbering middle-class tories.

  53. Denise-Perry Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    CORRUPT – DON’T GO THERE – THIS PRESENT GOVERNMENT WAS ELECTED ON "NO MORE SLEEZE". THEY HAVE BEEN WORSE, EVERYONE FEATHERING THEIR OWN NESTS (BEIT 2 HOMES+). CABINET MINISTERS VOTING TO KEEP THE SO CALLED "JOHN LEWIS" EXPENSES, HARRIET HARMONS DODGY HUBBY, 2 JAG PRESCOTT, UNDISCLOSED DONATIONS, VAZ, ETC ETC I COULD GO ON.

    WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT EASY WAYS OUT OF GOVERNING THE COUNTRY – BROWN CAN’T EVEN STICK TO BUDGETS, WHEN MAKING WRONG DECISIONS HE EITHER RUNS AWAY OR DOES A U TURN. AS I RECALL THATCHER COINED THE BEST REPLY "YOU TURN IF YOU WANT, THE LADIES NOT FOR TURNING". WE ARE NOTHING MORE THAN AMERICA’S POODLE IN THE IRAQ/AFGHAN CONFLITS – WHEN THATCHER CHOSE TO PROTECT FALKLANDS EVEN AMERICA WOULD NOT OFFER ASSISTANCE.

  54. mr.meldrew Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    GIVE ALL OUR PRESENT GUTLESS,GREEDY BUNCH OF POLITICIANS STATE FUNERALS RIGHT NOW SINCE BRUSSELS SEEMS TO BE TAKING OVER THEIR JOBS

  55. Lazarus Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I don’t defend governments nor support it. And by the way, your history is as credible as your politics, Reagan and Pinochet were both influential in communicating with the Galtieri government/junta during the incident; Thatcher chose to ignore their mediation, just like she ignored the working-classes for 18 years.

  56. BobM Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Why all the shouting?

  57. Lazarus Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Hysterical out-of-power alert Bob.

  58. ChiefDragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sounds like we have a few more Thatcherites on here willing to throw money into her funeral pot!

    If they keep putting their heads above the parapet like this the government won’t have to fork out a penny.

    And before you shoot me down in flames I always voted tory, till Maggie came to power, much to my fathers disgust(he was staunch Labour). When she took over I seemed to crawl from one pay day to the next trying to keep my head above water, it was certainly one way to lose weight because my three kids ate and I went without most days.

  59. carolspearman Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    william willberforce will be turning in his grave at the thought of a state funneral for the woman who wanted to bring back slavery

  60. peterfenwick Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    giving maggie a state funeral is totally out of order , hasnt this woman ? cost this counry enough, as well as bringing the country to its knees she spent our taxes on finding her lost son in the desert , she took a cruiser and all hands to their deaths in 1980s, falkland islands and to give her a state funeral would be the final insult ,

    in my opinion im thinking that i would place her and her funeral in the capable hands of her very very rich family , and invite parliament to attend , thats if they want too, mind you we might get the day off work as a mark of respect lol

  61. ChiefDragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I wouldn’t hold your breath on that one Peter. And if the governments offered to pay the family aren’t gonna stump up are they, that’s how the rich stay rich.

  62. angie Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Why not a normal funeral like the rest of us.

  63. ChiefDragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Why not indeed Angie! Cardboard coffin – put on the bonfire in the garden – scatter the ashes on the veg patch.

  64. Norman.Hawkes Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Unfortunely this thread has degenrated into the usual Labour v. Conservative slanging match. I don’t remember all Maggie’s supporters being "slumbering middle-classes" just as the current Government was not only elected by the "working-classes". And incidentally, Maggie is revered by most modern-day politicians on both sides because she did what they would all have loved to have done but couldn’t because they were hide-bound by their union ties. She made the difficult decisions for them and provided the situation for our economy to boom – not (sadly) on the back of heavy industry but on modern high-tech and service and financial industries. And booming it was until the current shower got their hands on the reins and taxed it into oblivion. Even the "working classes" were relatively rich beyond their dreams up to 10 years ago. Few homes on Britain’s housing estates don’t have their BMW outside and their wide-screen TV inside. And why not? And it’s not thanks to the current shower.

  65. JosephPublicski Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    what I can’t understand is why it should cost three million pound to bury anyone. is it a gold coffin, three million pounds, tell me how it will be spent, perhaps a rocket to the moon!

  66. MikeCovell Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I expect the high cost will be down to security for the day, flying in politicians, and paying for a suitable headstone and plot.

    Either that, or like you said a rocket!

  67. PabloGonzalez Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    NO!!!! That woman should be thrown into an unmarked grave, all records erased. Further thoughts are unprintable.

  68. Greymorton Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    "To those who have, more shal be given; and to those who have not, even the little they have shall be taken from them." The Govt. are so hard up they have to double the tax that the poorest pay. Yet they can find £3 million for this multi millionairesse ! It stinks.

  69. johnkeelty Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Can’t even mention her name,but when she does pop off, myself and a few friend’s are going out to celebrate the end of a truly un-compassionate woman. This country has never recovered from her time in power. John Keelty.

  70. cainpringle Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    this magnificent lady has got years left-

  71. Colombo Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    cainpringle: that was a very subtle play on words. :-))

  72. TheEmperor Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I’m all for a state funeral for her, as long as it happens immediately. Indeed, why wait until she’s dead? She’d get what she deserves, then.

  73. JosephPublicski Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I can see by the comments that Maggie was not liked very much, even her own party had no time for her. I always thought one of her good points was allowing people to buy their own council houses. It would give people a bit of pride and responsabilty, but now I see the ulteria motive to this. They would have to take care and pay for the upkeep of the house, saving local government this expense. Then when the owners became old they could reposess the house to pay for their care. nice one maggie. State funeral??? No, No, No. As for throwing flowers at her coffin, I dread to think what some people might throw. Of course if she did have a state funeral, and nobody turned up that would be a humiliation, but she has such a lovely daughter and an idiot son, it is quite a situation, even Joe Stalin had his followers.

  74. barrycoleridge Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    just leave the body for the vultures.

  75. Colombo Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I am I the only person whose living standards improved during her period of office?

  76. alexzirkhov Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    yes

  77. theagitator Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    No, mine did too.

  78. Colombo Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Alex: How would you know?

    If you’ve only been here as long as you claim, you wouldn’t know.

  79. TheEmperor Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    No, Colombo. Hers did.

  80. Lazarus Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Oh, eugh, phew, argh! I feel so dirty. I want to take my eyeballs out and scrub them clean!

  81. TheEmperor Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Wow. After what she has done, how DARE she?!

  82. Greymorton Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    MT has money enough to pay for her own funeral. Unlike some of us !

  83. Lazarus Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I blame Thatcher for all these indolent lunatics.

  84. gecko2 Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Frankie Boyle made a good point recently. Why not buy £3 Million worth of shovels for the ex-miners and let them dig a grave for her which would be that deep she could personally shake the hand of Satan.

  85. Denno Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    This country has never recovered from her time in power. John Keelty.

    I think you mean its returning to the shambles it was before she came to power.

  86. Chromosome23 Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Thatcher single handedly destroyed the post war consensus. Blame her for New Labour.

  87. theagitator Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I refuse to listen to criticism of the Immaculate Misconception that is the Blessed Maggie.

  88. TheEmperor Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I’m sure you are saying this with your tongue in your cheek, agitator, but if you aren’t, you can always stopper your ears with cotton wool.

  89. theagitator Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Hi Emperor, read my entry again, try to understand the big words & you will see that I am in agreement with you.

  90. TheEmperor Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I already thought you were. I just wanted to make sure.

  91. barrycoleridge Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    chromsome i have to disagree

  92. Colombo Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Makes you wonder how she got elected with such majorities. I can’t have been the only one who voted for her.

  93. BobCarter Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I don’t know why there is all this animosity for Maggie Thatcher. To be honest, I have a soft spot for her. Romney Marsh.

  94. Chromosome23 Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Any truth in the rumours that the funeral directors have been given special instructions? Garlic in the coffin…that sort of thing?

  95. theagitator Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It has just been confirmed by Downing Street that she is to be buried face down. So that the more she claws the deeper she will go.

  96. Roberto Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I don’t believe that Baroness Thatcher deserves some of these comments, Especially in the light of more recent premiere’s performances. Maggie should be buried with the dignity she has always behaved with.

    It is the current PM and his predecessor who should receive an identical finale to the one Benito Mussolini and his wife had.

  97. theagitator Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Premier not premiere. Mussolini & mistress not wife.Apart from these two major errors your submission was ok.

  98. Roberto Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I stand corrected! Although I believe the way that Brown and the Blairs should meet their end should be on a very similar theme to Mussolini. Crimes against the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, It’s population and the annihilation of thousands of years of heritage. They have brought nothing but shame and disgrace to this once great nation and turned it into the laughing stock of the world.

  99. Roberto Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Margaret Thatcher had and still has what she called "The Spirit of the South Atlantic"

    The red monsters have always had "The spirit of the spineless"

  100. PabloGonzalez Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Margaret Thatcher had "The spirit of the bullies".

  101. Colombo Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Haven’t all political leaders?

    I’d still prefer someone like her on our side, to some of the spineless wonders we’ve had.

  102. OGGSNITCH Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Don’t forget she abolished virtually all coal mining, and supporting communities, at a stroke, just because Arthur Scargill dared to challenge her. Then she did exactly the same to the Greater London Council, just because Labour (Ken Livingstone) beat her man Horace Cutler in a fair election. Then she ripped the NHS apart by giving every department and specialty a budget and a responsibility to make a profit. Oh, and she sold off the country’s housing stock for next to nothing, creating lots of new Tory voters on the council estates, dividing once-united communities and forcing future seekers of low-priced rented housing into the grubby arms of private landlords. And of course the Falklands. Prior to her coming to power the Labour government had always maintained a navy presence around the Falklands. As soon as Maggie arrived she stopped all that, saying it was a waste of money. The Argentinians took this as a sign that the UK was now no longer interested in protecting the Malvinas, so stepped in – thank you very much. Had Maggie not cancelled the British patrols in the first place there would have been no war. Great woman? May she burn in hell.

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