The day that Thatcher died

I thinks scattering the cortege with lumps of coal, in the same way people scattered flowers on Lady Di's cortege, seems appropriate.

Anyone who is disappointed that no notable members of the current US administration are attending, don't be. Dick Cheney and Michelle Bachmann have accepted an offer to represent the brightest and best of US politics.

Dick Cheney, possibly one of the most destructive and vile 'leaders' in recent years. In his own quiet way he's a genocidal dictator he's just not as open or upfront about it as the likes of Joseph Kony, he's also a hell of a lot less accountable for it because he's clever enough to do it through the appropriate channels.

I thought you might like him

^^^ Am loving the creativity coming out of this thread, no doubt someone will be along in a moment to call me a patronising cunt - probably for being old.

You're not patronising, you just know a lot about history, and everyone else doesn't

You're not patronising, you just know a lot about history, and everyone else doesn't

That's a really nice way of saying I'm ancient. Was 44 this year, fuck knows where the time has gone.

44? That's fucking ancient.

No wonder you know so much about history.

44? That's fucking ancient.

No wonder you know so much about history.

Andy, this will be one of the few times you'll be chasing me. I remember when this forum was just trees and fields; that's how old.

You are, if memory serves, a few days older than me.

Therefore ancient.

During the Thatcher years I was doing very nicely climbing the greasy corporate pole in publishing. The great majority of her policies worked very nicely for me personally (surely there can't be a me impersonally?), I should be an arch Thatcherite.

I AM NOT!

It was a time of mean-spirited nastiness to our fellow, but poorer, man. The crushing of the miners' strike was a display of power to subdue the unions and the death of the mining industry was a price Thatcher was prepared to pay and welcomed regardless of the human cost. How do I know? A friend of mine was a Cabinet aide at the time. He resigned.

One of my saddest memories is travelling in a lift with Margaret and Denis when I worked in the Express building and not being able to say a damned thing, to my shame I needed my job more than the satisfaction of
saying what I thought.

I will be having a bloody good drink tomorrow!

That's a really nice way of saying I'm ancient. Was 44 this year, fuck knows where the time has gone.

I was joking.

Report all the things, regardless of their nature. Surely thats the point of journalism?

Unless you're hiding a bunch of paedos in your organisation or you run a political party puppet...

I was joking.

I know don't worry, I was also just joking about but once again this is an excellent example of when forums fail over sensitive subjects, such as Thatch carping it.

If our communication had have been face to face we both would have known we were joking. Anyway, no worries, carry on.

You are, if memory serves, a few days older than me.

Therefore ancient.

Aah, Alzheimer's. It's a tricky beast. I am of course in my late 20s and you andyp are in your early 50s.

Margaret Thatcher has died. We want to take the moment when our country is remembering her legacy, to remember the people her government hurt - people who don’t get pull-out supplements in national newspapers. People who don’t get ceremonial funerals in St Paul's Cathedral. The people her apologists forget, or want to forget.

Margaret Thatcher's last years were spent coping with dementia, a terrible illness. If, like us, you were disgusted by how she treated the least well off in Britain and around the world, the old line about not wishing something on your worst enemies still applies. We can’t help but think it’s pretty lousy to celebrate or gloat over anyone’s suffering and death and we don’t want anyone else to do it either.

We just want to place front and centre people who had no place in the Thatcherite worldview. And we want to do that in a way that can actually do some good. You can help us by donating to the excellent charities we have chosen to represent a fraction of them – the homeless, miners’ families, gay teenagers, Hillsborough survivors and South African victims of the Apartheid regime.

Nothing is stopping you doing more or taking the spirit of the Don’t Hate, Donate campaign in your own direction. Thank you so much for your support!

http://donthatedonate.com/

What a complete waste of money that funeral was !!!!

Did they bury her? That's all I want to know, did they bury her?

It's been nice not having any traffic in The City. Perhaps we could bury a Tory every day.

Is this vicious old harpie in the ground yet?
Has this been resolved yet?

Did they bury her at a crossroads?

She's actually being cremated at Mortlake then her ashes are being buried next to Dennis.

Meanwhile, up north (there was an effigy on top of that bonfire, I understand)...

Picture from BBC Reporter James Vincent.

And the BBC News Channel is obsessing about..? A suspicious letter to Obama, cutting away from the wait for the presser to talk to someone about something related. Now they're on the weather.

This happened hours ago and there's been nothing.

^^My God it looks shit up there

It says so much about the legacy she left in former mining areas. No wonder they hate her.

It could also say quite a lot about the next lot too, who implemented Pathfinder?

And the BBC channel is warning that some people may find this offensive:

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No apologies for these images though