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...

[HoHoHoNoYouDont]

BBC Link

Thugs. That's all these people are. Why does protest = violence. It's just another excuse for braindead idiots to get on the streets to fight and damage other people's property.

[HoHoHoNoYouDont]

If they were 'celebrating' her death why didn't they open a few tinnies and party in the park. Why do they have to set fire to stuff. Idiots.

[TheCraicDealer]

I'm not supporting it either, but the time to make a stand was in 2011 when the plans were finalised. Not a week before the funeral, or worse, at the damn thing.

[CloudsAndTrees]

And you know all the taxpayers in the country do you TheSecond?

[Maggysinge]

All the low life's rioting while the SWP morons and chattering classes on here encourage it while siping their lattes in their local costs in north London.

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

Fargo
I am a net contributor to the tax system, I get no child benefit, I don't even get a tax free allowance.

I am not in favour of her ceremonial funeral so don't include me in your calculations. If the family want to pay for a large funeral in St Paul's good luck to them.

[delboysfileofax]

So the people who pay the most tax should have the biggest say Fargo?
Surely it doesn't matter if it's "peanuts" the country is either skint or it isn't.

Why not start a just give website? Then all the little Tories who idolise her so can pay out of their own pocket. The taxpayers should not be paying for this under any circumstances

[MsIngaFewmarbles]

YANBU. I think it's a terrible idea. The country is broke and it's a slap in the face to all those having benefits cut. It's going to be a magnet for protests. She doesn't deserve it and apparently didn't want it.

I know others have said that £8m is a drop in the ocean but when you think it would pay for over 360 nurses for a year it seems like a hell of a lot to me.

[flatpackhamster]

TheSecondComing

Clouds, I do not know one person from any part of my life who is in support of this. People are saying they don't agree with protests /disrupting funeral but nobody thinks it is a good idea. For a number of reasons.

I imagine it depends on the sort of friends/family you have. I've spoken to two people who wanted a full state funeral and one who didn't want any funeral.

For those wondering how far £8 million will go, here is how far £8 million will go when spent on welfare:

It'll run the NHS for 24 minutes.
It'll run the country's state schools for 35 minutes.

Those people objecting to the spending of the money aren't objecting because of the money, but who it's being spent on. They're exactly the same people whinging endlessly about 'evil tory cuts', ad infinitum.

If, like me, you're bored by right-on marxists abusing the legacy of Britain's greatest post-war PM, remember that the reason they're doing it is because she stripped them of all their power. As this article in the Telegraph describes far more eloquently than I can, the modern left is insignificant. No political party dares uses the word 'socialism'. It is poison. Thatcher-rants are all they have left now.

[CloudsAndTrees]

It helps a lot TSC, thanks

You 'know' me, and I think it's a good idea. The only thing that makes it a bad idea is the cretins that are too stupid to see that a funeral is no place for a protest, about anything. Apart from a few idiots, I think it's great that the first female Prime Minister will be recognised in her death for all that she achieved.

Either way, the decision has been made. There is just no point in going there to protest at the actual event. The people planning to protest are going to be the ones actively bumping up the cost of the thing!

[Viviennemary]

I'm not a socialist. But I am quite amazed at all the so called socialist politicians lining up to pay homage. I wonder what the labour benches will be like tomorrow in parliament. Somebody on TV was speculating whether Labour MP's will stay away or will attend in order to speak against. Best stay away I think.

[thegreylady]

I think it should be an entirely private affair.
She did as much harm as good[if not more] and should just be treated like any dead politician.It's not as though she were Churchill who has remained loved and respected through the years.
Compare her ghastly 'where there is....let us bring ...' speech with Churchill's stirring oratory.

[Fargo86]

Thatcher did far more good than harm. She brought this country into the late 20th century.

How many people who say they "hate Thatcher" would like to go back to the way things were prior to 1979?

[Unami]

I think that spending 8 million on Thatcher's funeral is a gross insult to the women of this country, who are bearing the brunt of public sector cuts and benefit cuts at once. Don't forget Thatcher's own words, "The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison".

[twofingerstoGideon]

All the low life's rioting while the SWP morons and chattering classes on here encourage it while siping their lattes in their local costs in north London.

Maggysinge Did you join MN just to be as offensive as possible? It is one thing to disagree with people, but quite another to refer to them as morons and low life's (sic)

Or 'cretins' Clouds & Trees

[grovel]

Unami, don't bother being insulted on my behalf.

[CloudsAndTrees]

Have just googled the word cretin in case it had a meaning I was unaware of, and it appears that it does. So I apologise for using that word, and I will not do so again. It was a genuine mistake.

[Maggysinge]

Oh the irony of you Gideon! You're getting offended by my choice of words yet you have no qualms about using disgusting and vile language against a deceased old woman who saved this country. I think you need to give your face a wobble.

[twofingerstoGideon]

Maggy - Yes, your language is offensive. Please do point out any 'disgusting' or 'vile' language I have used.

[twofingerstoGideon]

Thanks, Clouds.

[Sunnywithshowers]

I think you need to give your face a wobble.
This and 'citrus-titted arsepart' are my favourite MN insults.

I have no love for Mrs Thatcher and disagree with spending £8m on a huge funeral. However, I don't agree with protesting at her funeral because it's a shitty thing to do.

[ajandjjmum]

Sadly the sort of people who will protest at her funeral don't have the sensitivity or intelligence to realise that it's a shitty thing to do.

I can respect the opinions of those who don't agree with spending £8M on a funeral, although I don't agree with them.

And some of the language used to describe MT - are people really so thick that they can't find decent words to express how they feel?