to think Thatcher's funeral procession will attract protesters throughout UK?

[Corygal]

Strikes me they're really pushing it with a full military fanfare and procession through the streets of London - it's catnip for every pissed off Briton in the country to come and have a go.

The last people who had this amount of fuss were Queen Mum and Diana, neither of whom exactly attracted violent dissent. But a parade through virtually every main thoroughfare of the capital for Mrs Thatcher...

What Smudging said.

Maybe they want some more big riots, so that they can further demonise the working classes. Or maybe it's just a big "fuck you, we can and always will be able to do just as we like" from those in charge.

Agree with smudging. Her family should have a private funeral and be allowed to grieve in peace.

I couldn't stand the woman and hated her policies, but would never disrupt a funeral.

However, it does stick in my throat that the Govt would spend £8 million on the funeral of a woman who brought so many onto their knees with poverty. At best it's bad PR, at worst it's rubbing people's faces in it and inviting discord.

I really, really hope it is a big fuck you from this government to the whining left and champagne socialists.

Maggysinge. Charming.

Not everyone who was affected or upset by her policies was "whining left" or "champagne socialists".

She was massively divisive and unpopular, even with her own cabinet towards the end. A huge public funeral is a bad idea and tempts yet more controversy.

A complete disgrace to waste all that money when so much of today's poverty is a direct result of her free market policies

or, the greedy bankers of today who the current government wont rein in.

There is a lot that could have been done by leaders after Maggie, they have chose not to.

But what are you lot going to do though? Absolutely nothing but whinge and moan on here with the rest of the whingeing left. She split public opinion but she did what was right for this great country and saved it from completely going under and for that she is a great woman and seeing how the left is reacting just proves that point.

HoHoHo- like what?

Don't blame successive governments for her mistakes. it's very hard and takes a long time to reinstate policies that have been disposed of by a previous government.

If all governments spent four years undoing what previous governments have done, they wouldn't have time to run the country.

Anyone who takes to the streets rioting is no better than EDL type scum.

If people need to protest then do it peacefully.

And this is exactly what the Tories have to put up with every time labour have fucked up!

I find it incredible that so many years after she left government, some people are still blaming her for everything that has gone wrong in their lives.

If her decisions were so awful, why did subsequent governments not reverse them?

Oooh yeah. Like the erm, "hundred or so" (according to the web) who were thronging the streets last night?

The union do not pay for Arthur Scargill's flat in London.

Maggysinge - your posts are making you sound a little bit excitable. Are you okay?

ajand - given everyone is busy pointing out how significant she was, and what a legacy she left, it's hardly surprising that her legacy is still pissing people off.

And now we are being lumbered with the cost of a quasi-state funeral - only one step down from a monarch's. She posed as an opponent of public spending, why should we have to fork out to celebrate her life? Her family can afford to bury her, maybe they should appoint Group 4 to look after security.

I don't entirely agree with the whole funeral plan but I am sure many will use it as an excuse for a punch up!

Excitable? Like the left element on here you mean? I've never seen so much hysteria and hyperbole on one website until I came here, if anything it's your lot who get excitable no?

The problem is that Gordon Brown decided how the funeral would be.

Erm, what? Protesting that she's died?

There won't be protests, the country is far too de-politicised. I mean Blair was more right wing than she was, and look how many idiots voted for him!

If they had wanted to hold a large funeral service in St Paul's I could have probably accepted it. Its the cortege through the streets etc that bothers me. Why should I pay for that? If they want to spend a couple of million I'm sure they can find people in greater need that than the Thatcher family.

The Royal family and the Middleton's paid towards William and Kate's wedding so how much are Mark and Carole going to chip in?

OFFS Middletons not Middleton's

Grocer's apostrophe in tribute to MT's origins!

I don't know Avril look what happened in City Centres a while back. Mobs rioting and looting. It only takes one idiot to start it and the rest of the village idiots tag on!

Where has this figure of 8 million come from. Is it correct or has it been plucked from the Daily Mail?