Thatcher is dead

[Dovydaitis]

The rehearsal photos today looked suspiciously like a nifty attempt at getting the body to St. Paul's ahead of time making it an empty coffin on Wednesday, or am I just being overly suspicious?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Big Ben silenced.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22157022

They really are just taking the piss now.

I honestly think they might be. At this point they're just seeing just how much they can get away with.

Though I suppose it would be a bit on the nose to have dinging and donging as the coffin made its way along

 

[2hats]

The rehearsal photos

The rehearsal earlier today:

 

[DotCommunist]

won't be long before Cameron release a Little Blue Book and we all have to buy it.

Foreward by Michael fucking Gove

 

[J Ed]

won't be long before Cameron release a Little Blue Book and we all have to buy it.

Foreward by Michael fucking Gove

He's already written a foreword to the Bible, so..

 

[elbows]

Just a few miles south of me in Coventry, some council emails got leaked...

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"My own view is that I would fly a flag with a happy smiling face on but I would like to know the views of colleagues. Would you please let me know your views, if you have any, by Monday at the latest.​

"Thanks and best wishes, John."​

Earlier this week, Coun Mutton declined to publicly comment about Mrs Thatcher’s death, other than to say: "I’m not shedding any tears."​

Coun Chater – a former head of social services and Lord Mayor in 2001 - replied less than hour later:​

"Hi John. Would have preferred to see her hanging from a flag pole in the early 80’s! A definite ‘no’ from me. Regards, Cllr Dave Chater."​

Coun Chater told the Telegraph he had "pressed the wrong button" in replying to the council leader, so his reply mistakenly went to opposition Tory councillors too.​

He accused them of leaking the e-mail to the national press, and of trying to make "political capital" out of Mrs Thatcher’s death.​

He said: "I did think about her as a frail old lady when I heard of her death, but my comments were made in the context of the 1980s when I became a councillor. In one month, we lost 26,000 jobs in the manufacturing base.​

"I was also campaigning for the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, when the leader of our country was calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist.​

"For both Coventry and the wider world, there wasn’t any redeeming feature of her as leader of the Conservatives, or as Prime Minister."​

Coun Mutton was unavailable for comment last night.​

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http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...ace-flag-for-thatcher-funeral-92746-33160286/​

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[DexterTCN]

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[frogwoman]

 

[weepiper]

Pas Giannina fans in Greece

 

[ferrelhadley]

As the funeral descends into farce guess who the tories are blaming?

Spoiler

It is understood that a number of Tories blame Gordon Brown for pushing for such a large scale funeral for Thatcher when he was prime minister, giving the palace no choice but to accept an invitation for the Queen on the grounds that the ceremony has cross-party consensus.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/15/lady-thatcher-funeral-arrangements-criticised

 

[Santino]

As the funeral descends into farce guess who the tories are blaming?

Spoiler

It is understood that a number of Tories blame Gordon Brown for pushing for such a large scale funeral for Thatcher when he was prime minister, giving the palace no choice but to accept an invitation for the Queen on the grounds that the ceremony has cross-party consensus.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/15/lady-thatcher-funeral-arrangements-criticised

Tactical genius.

 

[belboid]

I wonder what would happen if Michelle Bachmann and Nadine Dorries met? I can only assume hours of furious, self-hating lesbian sex.

thanks for putting that image into my head

 

[ddraig]

not as it sounds from the link but still...

'Street warfare in Paris: Thatcher vs Sands'

http://www.france24.com/en/20130412...=0&ns_linkname=20130412_2013_04_12_0710_wb_en

 

[rosecore]

Conservative MP Peter Bone has told Daybreak that London could profit from Margaret Thatcher's funeral as more people wishing to pay their respects have been brought into the area. He said:

"I don't first of all accept that this is costing £10 million, because think how many people have been brought into London, how much extra business, it's probably actually going to work out as a profit for the economy.
It is absolutely the correct thing to do."​

What a true Thatcherite. The markets would have wanted it this way.

 

[two sheds]

He's got a good point. I'm surprised he didn't suggest cutting her up and selling the bits off as a profit for the economy.

 

[2hats]

He's got a good point. I'm surprised he didn't suggest cutting her up and selling the bits off as a profit for the economy.

Embalm her and sell tickets for viewing.

 

[laptop]

Embalm her and sell tickets for viewing.

In Red Square?

 

[readergirl]

I wish we could put her in a rubbish dump one of those vast anonymous pits where all sorts of things go to die. But the cunts have decided to cremate her and put her into the Chelsea Pensioners garden thing.

 

[machine cat]

I wish we could put her in a rubbish dump one of those vast anonymous pits where all sorts of things go to die. But the cunts have decided to cremate her and put her into the Chelsea Pensioners garden thing.

Sorry but you can't just go around dumping hazardous waste wherever you like. It's not very good for the environment.

 

[frogwoman]

Knowing cameron he probably would like to embalm her and put her body for public viewing in the thatcher museum.

 

[Idris2002]

Didn't they do that with Isabel Peron, only to find that a demented Peronista stole the embalmed body and did things to it that are frankly too sordid to be shared on a family board like this?

 

[Balbi]

Given that Isabel Peron ain't dead, it's pretty unlikely.

 

[DotCommunist]

didn't know saville was a fan of latin american politics

 

[Idris2002]

Given that Isabel Peron ain't dead, it's pretty unlikely.

Always have to win, don't you Balbi?

 

[Dogsauce]

I wish we could put her in a rubbish dump one of those vast anonymous pits where all sorts of things go to die. But the cunts have decided to cremate her and put her into the Chelsea Pensioners garden thing.

Hopefully a strong westerley wind will pick up those ashes and carry them to Beckton STW, where they belong.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Knowing cameron he probably would like to embalm her and put her body in his bed so that he could rub himself up and down against her every single night

corrected for you

 

[RedDragon]

 

[Balbi]

Always have to win, don't you Balbi?

Thatcher's children

 

[teqniq]

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[weepiper]

Thanks to Norris Nuvo

Ugh. Fuck's sake.

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