Am I alone in thinking that the decision to give the milk snatcher a state funeral is an affront to British democratic values? What positive contribution did she make to British society? Was it
a. destroying (sorry modernising) the UK's coal and steel industries?
b, selling off most of Britain's social housing at knock down prices so the new home owning 'elite' would feel like conservatives and vote for her party (sorry, creating a home owning democracy)?
c. selling off every UK publicly owned enterprise at prices where the stock values doubled overnight in order to finance "tax cuts" (sorry, creating a share owning and enterprise culture) ?
d. enhancing the UK's role on the European stage?, or
e. sinking a Argentinian battleship full of conscripts that was trying to surrender? (Rule Brittania)
Makes you proud to be British doesn't it?
And her legacy now runs on through her family with her son making a unique contribution to peace and democracy in Western Africa.
There's a line in a Lindisfarne song (remember them)- "We'll dance on your grave 'till the flowers return." I suspect that not the whole country will be in mourning on the passing of Lady Thatcher.
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Did I miss something? Has she died?
Why hasn't this hit the Dutch news yet? Or is "de wens de vader van de gedachte".
Gels - I jumped to the same conclusion as you when I read the story. the Iron Lady is still in good health - just that a decision was made that she should honoured in this way - she will be the only non-member of the Royal family apart from Lady Diane and Winston Churchill to be afforded that honour in the past fifty years.
Arlette "de wens de vader van de gedachte?". I understand the words but not the idiomatic expression.
it seems a little strange that they have even been talking about this before she died. Good planning I suppose :-)
A bit macabre too. But I guess they need to hammer out all these details to see where else to put the monies.
There are so many political officials over here, that deserve a goldfish funeral, in my estimation. Get a gigantic toilet bowl, and flush 'em. Make sure it is hooked up to a gigantic cesspool that all the "commoners" have contributed to.
Now there's a woman who's not afraid to speak her mind. A burial at sea is what I recommend. Feed her to the sharks. What goes around should come around.
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