Margaret Thatcher to be given state funeral.

[S1ur]

Is this true? because the Daily Mail reported it so obviously I need something more reliable than that

Last year Guardian reported 'there were no plans' for a state funeral.

Anyone heard this from anywhere other than the DM?

Message withdrawn

Message withdrawn

Message withdrawn

I really want to read that book - does anyone fancy lending it to me? I'll pay postage and return it (quick reader)

Has now been reported elsewhere...

GUARDIAN

INDEPENDENT nice title

DAILY EXPRESS

UNITED PRESS

MIRROR

indeed on LABOURHOME too

pruners article in Guardian about who gets state funerals for your dp

aha!

"Benjamin Disraeli was offered a state funeral, but refused it in his will."

Thanks, Slur

Re. Thatcher's legacy - the thing is, I think it (marketisation, privatisation, decline of manufacturing/primary industries and organised labour, decreases in investment in the welfare state etc etc) would have happened anyway. It's been a powerful trend in the developed world over the last few decades and I don't think the UK would have escaped it. Had we not had Thatcher, we might have carried out in the same vein for a while, but sooner or later we would have had to make the adjustment - it's happening now in European countries that avoided it in the 80s and 90s.

This is not to say that I personally agree with any of these trends, but they are the logical conclusion of rampant capitalism, which is the system to which we've signed up.

Cheers Riven, have CATted you !

yes so long as you're set to receive them, you have to subscribe to send iirc

I bet Tony Blair's will be turned into a Hollywood epic with Oasis playing.

We must campaign to stop this

Just remember though people, what she started Tony Blair continued.

Oh i havent read everything posted but just sat here and went oh wow maggies pegged it - has she my hubby asked - ermmmm no as i opened the thread up!! Anyhow is she really going to have one when the time comes and does that mean we get a bank holiday or a day off if its a week day ? im all for it if thats the case!

Guardian poll, Tink - vote early, vote often

(The anti vote has gone down since this afternoon )

No is over 80% Phew!

lololol @ will we get a day off!

def with Mr C on this one

Shall we make banners?

Slogans for chanting:

Thatcher Thatcher state funeral snatcher

paupers burial for Thatcher

burn the witch

Day off v principles, principles v day off. Thinks, thinks.

We could picket the parade with our banners. Briefly. Before going for piss up. Day off and principles

She's dead????