Thatcher is dead

[Knotted]

After the elation, the Munchkins, the irritation, I'm now just weirded out by the whole thing. That funeral just felt sinister.

 

[Pickman's model]

Does Thatcher look like she's giving the bastard a crafty left-hand tug, or am I just an exceedingly sick and vile pervert?

yes

 

[weepiper]

 

[skyscraper101]

Tory boy on the left spotted at 22 secs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22177366 (scroll down for video)

 

[shagnasty]

The funeral was today, wasn't it?

It's sort of been knocked out of the news here by this Boston business.

not suprised when it it is close to canada usa border

 

[Sprocket.]

I was there as it burned out and the ashes blew away on the wind. Bye bye nasty woman, bye bye.

 

[DexterTCN]

That taxi driver has some things to say.

 

[Pickman's model]

That taxi driver has some things to say.

taxi drivers so often do.

 

[Sprocket.]

I am somewhat disappointed that the RMT didn't go on strike for the day and stop the tube from ferrying all those drongos with 'Thanks Maggie' posters to and fro and enjoying themselves by proving to their neighbours and anyone else who saw them on the telly, what patriotic and upstanding citizens they are. Delusional twats!

 

[Pickman's model]

I am somewhat disappointed that the RMT didn't go on strike for the day and stop the tube from ferrying all those drongos with 'Thanks Maggie' posters to and fro and enjoying themselves by proving to their neighbours and anyone else who saw them on the telly, what patriotic and upstanding citizens they are. Delusional twats!

but they've been put away now, back in their care homes until they die or thatcher returns from the dead, whichever occurs first

 

[Pickman's model]

up the inla! http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/17/thatcher-wish-killed-inla-derry

 

[Sprocket.]

but they've been put away now, back in their care homes until they die or thatcher returns from the dead, whichever occurs first

Glad they are safe and sound in their beds. Bet they don't think the same about us.
No, no more second comings, the last one raised hell for God's sake!

 

[Pickman's model]

Glad they are safe and sound in their beds. Bet they don't think the same about us.
No, no more second comings, the last one raised hell for God's sake!

beds? zombies don't sleep in beds.

thatcher mourners in the city earlier

 

[Gingerman]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/17/plumbers-unique-tribute-to-iron-lady-3620184/
Saw one of their vans yesterday with a big Thatch picture on the side of the door,one company I wont be using in the future

 

[Idris2002]

I was there as it burned out and the ashes blew away on the wind. Bye bye nasty woman, bye bye.

Jon Snow is looking seriously rough in the intro there.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[where to]

That taxi driver has some things to say.

YouTube Video

Anyone got any more on his line that miners were not given a penny for funeral costs during the strike, ta.

 

[treelover]

Gary Gibbon, the Political Editor at Channel 4 News, ended today's coverage with a comment which did not seem quite so sanguine about the PR coup the government and state hoped the spectacle had achieved.
He said he had spoken to a senior Conservative who had said:

Now we have had the Thatcher frenzy, we will reap the whirlwind.​

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posted on CIF, can't make out what the 'Senior Conservative' meant, did he mean it has awoken old memories, etc?​

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btw, there is the ridiculous and expensive year long 'commeration(sic)' of the start(not the end) of WW1 to come yet..​

 

[Wilson]

is she still dead? can we send IDS to check?

 

[William of Walworth]

That taxi driver has some things to say.

taxi drivers so often do.

Well he might be conforming to the stereotype in his delivery, but at least he's not a Tory!

 

[laptop]

Well he might be conforming to the stereotype in his delivery, but at least he's not a Tory!

Er... surely he's at least a lurker here.

You seen how many followers he has on Twitter? ARTIST TAXI is your search...

 

[weepiper]

Anyone got any more on his line that miners were not given a penny for funeral costs during the strike, ta.

All I've found so far is this from the wiki page on the miners' strike

This strike was also the first in which the provision of welfare benefits were restricted in a way that miners saw as being used as a weapon against strikers. Welfare benefits had never been available to workers on strike but their dependents (i.e. spouses and children) had been entitled to make claims in previous disputes. However, Clause 6 of the 1980 Social Security Act banned the dependents of strikers from receiving "urgent needs" payments and also applied a compulsory deduction from the strikers' dependents' benefits. The government viewed this legislation as not concerned with saving public funds but instead "to restore a fairer bargaining balance between employers and trade unions" by increasing the necessity to return to work

 

[William of Walworth]

Er... surely he's at least a lurker here.

You seen how many followers he has on Twitter? ARTIST TAXI is your search...

Don't do Twitter, but thanks for the tip ...

 

[Ranbay]

 

[ferrelhadley]

 

[where to]

All I've found so far is this from the wiki page on the miners' strike

Found more on this in a book called 'The social fund 20 years on'. Page 123. Available to read on google books. Apparently the effects of this were so brutal that the law had to be bypassed in 1985 to allow a payment for funeral costs to a striking miner whose son had died. Almost certainly a pr / political decision, of course.

It would be interesting to know whose call that was and whether Thatcher agreed to it, and if so, whether she did so reluctantly or not.

 

[butchersapron]

I collected a loads of news reports from the time into a dossier that i posted either here or on matb , prob in 2004 or 2009. Sure that had stuff on why, it sure had stuff on why and how strikers had benefits stripped from them. Would be interested to see if anyone kept a copy.

 

[Dr Jon]

Her legacy lives on though:
The Blair Witch Project And The Betrayal Of Ordinary Working People

 

[treelover]

that's a bit frightening tbh...

 

[Gingerman]

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/thatcher-believed-the-irish-were-all-liars-1.1363098
She did'nt like us Irishers then,big shock.....not,believe me the feeling was mutual....Burn Baby Burn !!!!