Thatcher is dead

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Comments on Amazon say the Judy Garland version is too short to qualify (51secs).

Presumably that's why You Suffer by Napalm Death never got on TOTP.

Yeah, just read that. Saying buy the Fitzgerald version instead

 

[treelover]

Never mind the cultural christian allusions, IMHO this one nails it today:

never heard that before, beautiful song and sentiments..

 

[Streathamite]

a few more days like this & we'd be out of recession

so the queen, prince charles, cameron, osborne and simon cowell will all have to die next week. they're pencilled in for tuesday morning.

migh as well chuck BoJo and Clegg in there, just to round it off

 

[Greebo]

never heard that before, beautiful song and sentiments..

Apart from the last verse (added by the likes of Pete Seeger), it's a Quaker hymn.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[treelover]

love the Millipede in a panic, not sure what he should do to respond...

 

[Enviro]

The comments on the BBC news article titled 'Baroness Thatcher Dies: Tributes Paid at home and abroad' got shutdown super quick!!!

 

[Sprocket.]

It will be funny as fuck if ding dong does get to no.1 and they have to play it on radio 1.

I well remember The Sex Pistols God Save the Queen at number one in 77 and we all know how that got banned. Free country though.
The Tories would like to see Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries at number one no doubt. In memory of such a lovely woman!

 

[frogwoman]

the gotterdammerung

 

[happie chappie]

How many people will turn out on Sat in London? What would be the minimum to make it a reasonable turnout?

I’m hoping for at least 5,000 but perhaps I’m being a bit too optimistic.

 

[Sprocket.]

the gotterdammerung

Yes, so apt.

 

[Sprocket.]

the gotterdammerung

Yes and her former cabinet members could throw themselves 'neath the wheels of the cortège!

 

[Streathamite]

Well, I should add, I feel this pessimism especially given the very serious implications for the class caused by the SWP's recent disintegration

I wouldn't say there were any serious implications; the SWP are numerically tiny, marginalised and irrelevant, and - mercifully - are likely to remain that way

 

[frogwoman]

the moon nazis are coming.

 

[brogdale]

One day on; still dead.

 

[Streathamite]

I raised a glass of milk earlier. seemed more appropriate.

guy I know is having a party tonight. under thatcher his job and trade (he was welder in a shipyard) vanished. as a result he lost his home his wife and his dignity, had a breakdown and it took over 15 years to pull things back together again.

I hope he has a terrific party, and this news was a healer

 

[Streathamite]

I'm also a little concerned there may be trouble between those who want to hold a rave on her grave and those who want to piss on it.

Depends what your particular sexual perversions are, really...

 

[Wilf]

It's YE! I had no idea

Aye, tis I. It wasn't a spat type renaming I just went away for a while and coudn't remember my password so re-registered. Anyway, this is a day for all urban's lost sheep to return to the fold. Might even be a few un-bannings mods?

 

[SpineyNorman]

Aye, tis I. It wasn't a spat type renaming I just went away for a while and coudn't remember my password so re-registered oops. Anyway, this is a day for all urban's lost sheep to return to the fold. Might even be a few un-bannings mods?

I'd definitely be in favour of giving ern a reprieve - even if it's just a temporary one to allow him to troll sass in the RIP thread

 

[Barking_Mad]

Best if no one turns up. Or if you do turn up, do so in fancy dress (any suggestions?) You wouldn't want to be taken as a well wisher....

 

[Streathamite]

nice to see Lord neil kinnock 's been covering himself in glory as ever, claiming Scargill did more harm to the Trade Union movement than Thatch ever did - actually, might have been a replay from a docu, bu same difference , what an absolute loser of a human being, a backlsliding lickspittle who acheived little as a politician, nothing as a labour leader .

well, at least we've juswt had a useful reminder of what a lickspittle class traitor that man was.
I don't want to go soft with the advancing years

 

[Billie Piper]

thinking about it, what other Briton could die and cause celebrations in the street on this scale whilst at the same time being loved by millions?

 

[Badgers]

thinking about it, what other Briton could die and cause celebrations in the street on this scale whilst at the same time being loved by millions?

kabbes

 

[Streathamite]

Went a little mad with the likes but hey I feel better for it.

same here! Best. Thread. Ever.

 

[Streathamite]

even most 'left wing' papers going with the 'divided the nation' crap

which only goes to illustrate - beautifully - how un 'left' they are

 

[nino_savatte]

well, at least we've juswt had a useful reminder of what a lickspittle class traitor that man was.
I don't want to go soft with the advancing years

That speech. "I'll tell you and you'll listen"

 

[brogdale]

Best if no one turns up. Or if you do turn up, do so in fancy dress (any suggestions?) You wouldn't want to be taken as a well wisher....

That's how they stop you at the tube exit/filter points. Go dressed as a tory.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

love the Millipede in a panic, not sure what he should do to respond...

why should today be different to any other, though?

 

[danny la rouge]

'Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead' is now at #11 on the iTunes chart

 

[happie chappie]

High time we opened a book on who’s next.

Tebbit was looking a bit peaky last time I saw him on TV.

Lawson and Clarke look surprisingly well. Hurd was a bit doddery. Jim Prior just looked corpulent.