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Thatcher is dead

Also the American mini-Thatchers, who were apparently her "greatest joy". Not that they need any more money really - I understand their mum is a billionaire. Still, leaving money to one's grandchildren is usual.
 
I see today that in Smiths there is a biography of Thatcher that is being heavily discounted. I wonder why they are finding it hard to sell.
 
Has anyone posted a view of her 'grave' yet?

here's the best i could find......apparently shows dutiful staff measuring out where her ashes were to be interred. I'm assuming that this will never be open to the public....so please feel free to print/laminate etc. and micturate at will.

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She is still dead....but look at this suggestion from bullingdon, bell-end boris...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22703605

Boris Johnson says Oxford University should set up a college in honour of Margaret Thatcher to make up for not awarding her an honorary doctorate.
In 1985, Oxford academics refused the honour to the former prime minister in protest at her education policies.
But the London Mayor said by giving universities the freedom to charge overseas students, she had changed the way higher education was funded.

:facepalm:
 
We seem to be forgetting ....

Kinnock's speech in 1993

If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as Prime Minister, I warn you.
I warn you that you will have pain - when healing and relief depend on payment.
I warn you that you will have ignorance - when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right.
I warn you that you will have poverty - when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a Government that won't pay, in an economy that can't pay.
I warn you that you will be cold - when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don't notice and the poor can't afford.
I warn you that you must not expect work - when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don't earn, they don't spend. When they don't spend, work dies.
I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light.
I warn you that you will be quiet - when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient.
I warn you that you will have defence of a sort - with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding.
I warn you that you will be home-bound - when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up.
I warn you that you will borrow less - when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.
If Margaret Thatcher wins, she will be more a Leader than a Prime Minister. That power produces arrogance and when it is toughened by Tebbitry and flattered and fawned upon by spineless sycophants, the boot-licking tabloid Knights of Fleet Street and placement in the Quangos, the arrogance corrupts absolutely.
If Margaret Thatcher wins -
I warn you not to be ordinary.
I warn you not to be young.
I warn you not to fall ill.
I warn you not to get old.

 
A great speech, and it's heartening to see it again, but Thatcher had been out of office for three years by 1993 and the General Election was the previous year anyway. Shome mishtake shurely?

Sorry Mr Deedes should have said 1983 - I cried the night he lost.

http://www.owen.org/blog/326

Neil Kinnock’s speech in Bridgend, Glamorgan, on 7 June 1983, rates as one of the finest speeches ever made in British politics.
It was two days before the General Election. He scribbled the notes from which he delivered the speech in the car on the way to the rally, and his voice was hoarse from campaigning. He was elected leader of the Labour Party at the party conference in October 1983, after Labour’s resounding defeat. He went on to transform the party to make it fit for government.
 
A great speech, and it's heartening to see it again, but Thatcher had been out of office for three years by 1993 and the General Election was the previous year anyway. Shome mishtake shurely?
Probably a typo.
Speech in Bridgend, Glamorgan, on Tuesday 7 June 1983. Thursday 9 June 1983 was polling day in the general election.
 
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