Thatcher is dead

[happie chappie]

June Whitfield? Fucks sake. Never would have had her on the list.

The least funny of the two main characters in the chronically unfunny Terry and June.

Perhaps the most fitting tribute to Ms Whitfield’s comedic genius is the last line of the show’s Wikipedia entry:

“The BBC planned a feature-length film, entitled Terry and June - The Movie, but it was never made"

 

[billy_bob]

Here's Deborah Orr, self-proclaimed 'diehard leftie' (who sent her kid to private school):

Thatcher the politician was a nightmare. But I salute Thatcher the woman

I'm struggling to think of anything to say to that which won't have Teuchter starting another thread about misogyny.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Back then the BBC had a spine!

 

[happie chappie]

Fuck me.

How journalism works:

Editor: Deborah, can you knock out 300 words of utter shite sharpish as I've got a few column inches to fill?

Deborah: Yes.

 

[2hats]

That "growing list of celebrities” in full:

...

Strangely, Jim Davidson has not been invited for some reason.

Surely we should take a moment to recall those close friends who sadly couldn't make it?

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Captain General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Major General Suharto, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Pieter Willem Botha.

Any I've missed?

 

[Dovydaitis]

must admit, Red Ken is on fine form Thatcher bashing on have I got news for you

 

[butchersapron]

Surely we should take a moment to recall those close friends who sadly couldn't make it?

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Captain General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Major General Suharto, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Pieter Willem Botha.

Any I've missed?

The House of Saud.

 

[happie chappie]

Surely we should take a moment to recall those close friends who sadly couldn't make it?

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Captain General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Major General Suharto, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Pieter Willem Botha.

Any I've missed?

Stephen Milligan

Apparently he was due to hand out the oranges at the wake but is sadly tied up.

 

[JHE]

must admit, Red Ken is on fine form Thatcher bashing on have I got news for you

Ah, yes, many of my fellow old gits remember his glory days leading the Greater London Council, opposite the Palace of Westminster, advertising the number of unemployed and opposing the government... The GLC was abolished as a result. Many people (quite rightly) saw this as proof of the government's bossy git tendency and its intolerance of local democracy.

This was all long before the craven 'Red Ken' threw in his lot with Qaradawi and decided to appeal to Muslim voters in London by sucking up to Sharia-mongers.

 

[keybored]

Surely we should take a moment to recall those close friends who sadly couldn't make it?

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Captain General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Major General Suharto, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Pieter Willem Botha.

Any I've missed?

The Shah.

 

[Wilson]

Is she still dead?, fucking cretin, I hope she dies twice.

 

[butchersapron]

The Shah.

He was gone a month before she was elected.

 

[keybored]

He was gone a month before she was elected.

Yeah, but she still visited him before then, and wanted the UK to offer him sanctuary.

 

[2hats]

May have left Pol Pot off the invites too.

 

[nino_savatte]

I say, ding dong!

 

[butchersapron]

Xmas card for gadaffi: "To the Leader of the Great First of September Revolution"

 

[kenny g]

Ian Gow MP

 

[Dr_Herbz]

Just in case it hasn't already been posted...

 

[sihhi]

He was gone a month before she was elected.

Made a special trip to his palace to visit him in April 1978.

1979:

"He is an intensely controversial figure in Iran and we must consider our future with that country," Callaghan wrote in a note on the situation on February 19. "He will need to make interim arrangements." Within a few months, though, Thatcher was in Downing Street and voicing discontent about the situation. "The prime minister made it clear that she was deeply unhappy about the government's inability to offer sanctuary to a ruler who had, in her view, been a firm and helpful friend to the UK," a letter from Downing Street to the Foreign Office revealed on May 14.

Wants to have him and his family stay in Britain perhaps as a focus for revanchist movements

 

[butchersapron]

Gold Meir: "I greatly admired her. I greatly admired her as a war leader. I greatly admired her tremendous courage. I greatly admired her as a pioneer. I greatly admired her as a great human being, warm, thoughtful, kind, for all her fellow citizens and for human kind in the world as a whole."

Mubarak/Vince Cable.

 

[2hats]

How could I forget President Robert Gabriel Mugabe?

 

[butchersapron]

68 page Thatcher tribute magazine in the Telegraph tmw. Really.

 

[Casually Red]

Ian Gow MP

and Airey Neave mp.

 

[redsquirrel]

Fantastic Mark Steel article in the Indy:



http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...now-that-margaret-thatchers-dead-8568785.html

Damn site better than the tripe Bragg, Owen and co have come out with.

 

[happie chappie]

How could I forget President Robert Gabriel Mugabe?

Oh - if we can include the living may I present Mr Harvey Proctor.

 

[2hats]

Then there's Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak. Sadly unable to attend.

 

[sihhi]

Surely we should take a moment to recall those close friends who sadly couldn't make it?

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Captain General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Major General Suharto, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Pieter Willem Botha.

Any I've missed?

Ronald Reagan number one... Nurettin Ersin, Francois Mitterand, Menachem Begin, Yitzakh Rabin

Here Thatcher is with some friends in the back row

I think Mobutu, Thatcher, Botha, Reagan:

 

[laptop]

must admit, Red Ken is on fine form Thatcher bashing on have I got news for you

Not currently available on BBC iPlayer
Series 45 Episode 2 of 9

 

[Casually Red]

He's not posh but he is a very naughty boy isn't he? I just read through some of his contributions over the eight years he's been here doing his thing. Horrible stuff some of it. What does it take to get banned?

how the fuck is ern banned and that cunt let get away with that shite

 

[Wilson]

Big news from the Daily Mail:

Opera singer Katherine Jenkins has confirmed she will be attending Baroness Thatcher's funeral

“The Welsh star has been added to the growing list of celebrities . . . to pay their last respects to Britain's greatest peacetime prime minister.”

That "growing list of celebrities” in full:

Jeremy Clarkson

Frederick Forsyth

Joan Collins

Sir David Frost

Sir Trevor McDonald

Sir Tim Rice

June Whitfield

Sir Terry Wogan

Dame Shirley Bassey

Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber

Anya Hindmarch

Truly an autograph collector’s paradise.

Strangely, Jim Davidson has not been invited for some reason.

Reads like a list of cretins that the world would be better off without.