Thatcher is dead

[laptop]

i hope the people applying to give him money through the vehicle of his new academy appreciate his occasional, er, infelicities.

Free market in ideas, innit? That's what he'll be hoping, at least.

 

[ddraig]

hang on everyone! Hague says we can afford to contribute to the funeral

William Hague defends the cost of Baroness Thatcher's funeral, saying the UK can afford to contribute,

only because they've nicked it off the poorest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22086690

 

[ViolentPanda]

I think Cameron mentioned in an interview he thought Thatcher's handling of Mandela was "a mistake". Or summat.

Hardly surprising that certain shitcunts are already launching posthumous attempts to redact and/or revise history though, is it?

 

[Pickman's model]

hang on everyone! Hague says we can afford to contribute to the funeral

only because they've nicked it off the poorest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22086690

if contributions are what's sought then the provision of a few bricks, in the spirit that it's the thought that counts, ought to be welcomed.

 

[Streathamite]

Hardly surprising that certain shitcunts are already launching posthumous attempts to redact and/or revise history though, is it?

not surprising at all - I'm betting this is just the start of that. Will be interesting watching Tories smartly distance themselves from her more obvious howlers, once the funeral recedes into memory

 

[teqniq]

if contributions are what's sought then the provision of a few bricks, in the spirit the it's the thought that counts, ought to be welcomed.

In the spirit of free enterprise someone might consider setting up a wheelbarrow somewhere along the procession route with a load of half-bricks at 50p a throw.

 

[youngian]

Margaret Thatcher dead: Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead tops download charts after campaign by late PM's critics

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ma ... ng-1821155

Any youngsters out there can tell me when they broadcast the weekly hit parade on the wireless?

Pity its not some old Tory like Neil 'not a real Dr' Fox having to announce the number one.

 

[Ted Striker]

Brighton representing...

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Where is that Ted?

 

[Ted Striker]

Somewhere in Brighton...Will ask...

edit..."Just up from Halfords".

Not been in the area for a while so not sure where that is!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Cos they want to stop Kissinger and the rest having a bash at her. Dignity.

A corpse embalmed in spunk.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Clearly those un-representative organisers....according to....

Chuka Umunna, the Labour MP for Streatham, made clear his anger on Twitter after a "party" was held in the Windrush Square area of Brixton in his constituency.
Umunna tweeted: "Holding a party to celebrate the death of any person is totally wrong and in extreme bad taste." He also tweeted: "The organisers of that event in Windrush Sq last night do not speak for or represent the people of Brixton."

Neither does Chuka. He should remember that.

 

[Ceej]

A corpse embalmed in spunk.

..... well, we did say we'd be glad to contribute.....

 

[Pickman's model]

A corpse embalmed in spunk.

what hideous forms of life might spring from her corpse in a batg of nobel laureates' spunk?

 

[teqniq]

there a Farcebook campaign to rename Heathrow airport after the old bag:

https://www.facebook.com/renameheathrow

 

[later]

what hideous forms of life might spring from her corpse in a batg of nobel laureates' spunk?

Chuka Umunna?

 

[Pickman's model]

there a Farcebook campaign to rename Heathrow airport after the old bag:

https://www.facebook.com/renameheathrow

there should be an internet campaign to rename grantham thatcherville.

 

[Streathamite]

Delroy mentioned the govt. The govt and the state aren't the same thing. IYSWIM.

fairy snuff

 

[maomao]

Spring is really springing today. Anyone else reminded of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

 

[Streathamite]

In the spirit of free enterprise someone might consider setting up a wheelbarrow somewhere along the procession route with a load of half-bricks at 50p a throw.

it5's...it's....what she would have wanted!

 

[Streathamite]

there should be an internet campaign to rename grantham thatcherville.

Those poor people have suffered enough

 

[ViolentPanda]

Just e-mailed this to my MP.

*********​

Sir,
Yesterday I had the dubious pleasure of reading your comments on monday night's celebration at Windrush Sq. on twitter. You appeared almost eager to take the chance to condemn people for holding an opinion at odds with your own.
I'd like to make a few points that may not have occurred to you in your rush to show yourself as representing the status quo, rather than representing your constituents:

1) You tweeted that ""The organisers of that event in Windrush Sq last night do not speak for or represent the people of Brixton.".
You don't represent them either, you only represent a part of them.

2) The constituency you represent is made up of elements that mostly suffered quite harshly under Mrs. Thatcher's brand of Conservatism.

3) Your constituency has an ageing population. You may not remember what the 1980s were like, as you were an infant and then a child during them. Those of us who were adults by then do remember. For many of us, those memories are not good ones.

4) Your twitter that "Holding a party to celebrate the death of any person is totally wrong and in extreme bad taste" might be taken as the conclusion of someone with no axe to grind with reference to the effects of Thatcher and Thatcherism, and with possibly an eye to divorcing themselves from anything that might be used to halt your rise through the ranks of the Party. I don't hold that against you - healthy ambition is a good thing. What I do hold against you is your pretence to actually represent the opinions of your constituents on this matter. As with your predecessor, and as with the majority of the opinions you air, you represent your party and your own interests first. Our interests come a distant third.
You're MP of Streatham constituency because those among your constituents that vote, loathe Tories and Lib-Dems more than they loathe Labour, not because that many of us believe that Labour, especially post-1997 Labour, are innately better than their competitors.

Yours

*********​

 

[JimW]

there a Farcebook campaign to rename Heathrow airport after the old bag:

https://www.facebook.com/renameheathrow

They could compromise and just rename the booze section in duty free after Dennis.

 

[killer b]

i doubt thatcher is universally popular in grantham. the blue plaque on her dad's shop is positioned at such a height on the wall you can barely read it. i'll allow you to draw your own conclusions as to the reasoning for making it so inaccessible...

 

[ViolentPanda]

what hideous forms of life might spring from her corpse in a batg of nobel laureates' spunk?

A new wave of even more chinless, even more conscienceless Tory MPs?

 

[JimW]

Those poor people have suffered enough

Read in one obit that a while back the town voted not to erect a statue to her but to restore a beloved steam engine instead. Sensible folk.

 

[ViolentPanda]

i doubt thatcher is universally popular in grantham. the blue plaque on her dad's shop is positioned at such a height on the wall you can barely read it. i'll allow you to draw your own conclusions as to the reasoning for making it so inaccessible...

There was a report in, IIRC, the Guardian a couple of years back, talking to the people of Grantham about Thatcher's legacy. Apparently her dad wasn't held in quite the high esteem she believed. Seems that he liked to get his hand up the skirts of the shop girls, and given that he was "connected" (alderman, chamber of commerce, alleged Mason), those girls who said anything, found themselves unable to get work anywhere in the area, so they mostly kept schtumm.

 

[Streathamite]

There was a report in, IIRC, the Guardian a couple of years back, talking to the people of Grantham about Thatcher's legacy. Apparently her dad wasn't held in quite the high esteem she believed. Seems that he liked to get his hand up the skirts of the shop girls, and given that he was "connected" (alderman, chamber of commerce, alleged Mason), those girls who said anything, found themselves unable to get work anywhere in the area, so they mostly kept schtumm.

totally believable, given that he actually owned what was then the town's largest retail business. 'humble corner shop' my arse!

 

[Byrd_C]

There was a report in, IIRC, the Guardian a couple of years back, talking to the people of Grantham about Thatcher's legacy. Apparently her dad wasn't held in quite the high esteem she believed. Seems that he liked to get his hand up the skirts of the shop girls, and given that he was "connected" (alderman, chamber of commerce, alleged Mason), those girls who said anything, found themselves unable to get work anywhere in the area, so they mostly kept schtumm.

Is this the one? Tis from the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/thatchers-dad-mayor-preacher-groper-1257249.html

 

[belboid]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ma ... ng-1821155

Any youngsters out there can tell me when they broadcast the weekly hit parade on the wireless?

Pity its not some old Tory like Neil 'not a real Dr' Fox having to announce the number one.

midweeks out later today - Judy is at Number 2 at the mo, apparently