To spend my morning watching the funeral of Maggie Thatcher (on BBC) ?

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

She was our first woman prime-minister - a significant personal achievement, especially for the daughter of a grocer from Grantham, born in 1925

Also I agree with those that say these ceremonial occasions are something we do really well in Britain.

So AIBU to be watching this morning - in spite of disagreeing with many of her policies ? Will you be watching ?
And what do you make of both her personal achievement and her legacy ?

Fucking Clarkson.

Shirley Bassie looks wonderful.

The congregation looks like Spitting Image come to life! Tebbit, Hurd, Owen et al

Dame Burley Shassy n Clarkson with a Blonde

Ahh Simon Weston.

does Simon Weston have no medals?

Floss

herethereandeverywhere i heard that too. they're all heart aren't they?!

It is SI.

Herethere - yes, I'd flicked onto ITV for that - yes, that was the thatcher government there and then. People up thread said she was a woman of principle and convinction, if anyone wanted to bring in policies to her, it had to fit with her ideology, so working out what the economic argument was for breast and cervical cancer screening was not just the health argument was important.

Does anyone else keep picturing the old politicians as their Spitting Image puppets??

Yep. The two Davids

I need to go get a shower and get dressed. I watched it in bed in my jammies!

Major cross post!! Not just me then??

Recall great minds...

YY to what Nick Robinson said just now.

lol loving the spitting image references i was thinking exact the same thing

Blair's funeral would be a Requiem Mass at Westminster Cathedral. He converted to Catholicism after he left office.

Is it finished?

I keep wondering what viewers in other countries, especially non-Christian countries, are making of all this if watching. Would be fascinating to find out.

Horsemad - yes, but I reckon if there's a ceremonial funeral on offer, Cherie will be happy with a CofE service...

Same land!!

Didnt Cherie sit in on Cabinet meetings! Also just seen that BBC journalist (cannot remember his name - but he was on Strictly!) and they keep showing his clip when she resigned and he said there was lots of pushing and shoving and he said 'this IS the microphone Prime Minister'.

I saw him being interviewed earlier and he clearly loved her. I wonder if we will see her like again....

Glad it passed off without hitch.

Switched to Sky now... Woman and Lloyd Webber...