When Mrs T finally goes to the big colliery in the sky....

[theironduke]

Am i correct in thinking that she is due to get a full state funeral?

If so just how do we think this would work? After watching the wedding, 500k happy people lining the streets, i was wondering how Maggies final farwell would go.... Lady Di and the Queen mum both got big turn outs and very dignified days but i cant help thinking it could be a very ugly day if Mrs T had the same send off.... Less streets lined with well wishers but more riots and general nastyness..

Thoughts?

[ChiChoAndy]

It would be fairly tasteless to turn a funeral into a political statement. I think history looks on Thatcher kindly. I think Scargill, and their ilk need to be the ones who should bear the brunt.

[ralphrj]

theironduke said:

Am i correct in thinking that she is due to get a full state funeral?

State funerals for non-Royals are very rare. The last was for Winston Churchill in 1965.

Baroness Thatcher may be given a state funeral but no-one has said for definite whether she will or not.

[fergywales]

ralphrj said:

State funerals for non-Royals are very rare. The last was for Winston Churchill in 1965.

Baroness Thatcher may be given a state funeral but no-one has said for definite whether she will or not.

The Wail disagrees (self-flagellating now for posting link )
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034634/La...

[V88Dicky]

Well, I for one will be applying for a street party license.













When Winky kicks the bucket.

What a joyous event

[Victor McDade]

If Labour are in power at the time I think it will go reasonably well. If the Tories are in government though I think we'll see the lefties use it as an excuse to protest against Maggie/the present gov't all in one.

[ninja-lewis]

No chance I'd imagine. No other Prime Minister has received a state funeral since Churchill and her relationship with the royal family is nothing like Churchill's was.

Private funeral with a memorial service at Westminster Abbey is the best bet.

[colonel c]

ralphrj said:

theironduke said:

Am i correct in thinking that she is due to get a full state funeral?

State funerals for non-Royals are very rare. The last was for Winston Churchill in 1965.

Baroness Thatcher may be given a state funeral but no-one has said for definite whether she will or not.

Churchill united the nation. Thatcher divided it.

[DJRC]

colonel c said:

Churchill united the nation. Thatcher divided it.

Thatcher saved it.

She also divided it. Strangely enough one could argue the same with Winnie.

Its a funny old world.

[ChiChoAndy]

colonel c said:

Churchill united the nation. Thatcher divided it.

No.. Thatcher stopped the country subsidising an industry that was bleeding the coffers dry. What divided the nation was the likes of Skargill who used it as a platform to gain power.

[car crazy]

ChiChoAndy said:

It would be fairly tasteless to turn a funeral into a political statement. I think history looks on Thatcher kindly. I think Scargill, and their ilk need to be the ones who should bear the brunt.

+1

[ClaphamGT3]

I very much fear that it will not be long before we know.


If she is to have a state funeral, it would be richly deserved; those of us old enough to remember life before her time in Government know just how radically she turned this country round. That's before we start to think of what she and Reagan achieved on a global scale

[ChiChoAndy]

let people not forget that many of the collieries, and other industries could well have continued, if it wasn't for the strikes. Skargill, in my opinion, is one of the greasiest, manipulative, and vicious men ever to poke his head into politics. It is HE that should bear the brunt of the countries anger, not Maggie.

[fergywales]

ChiChoAndy said:

let people not forget that many of the collieries, and other industries could well have continued, if it wasn't for the strikes. Skargill, in my opinion, is one of the greasiest, manipulative, and vicious men ever to poke his head into politics. It is HE that should bear the brunt of the countries anger, not Maggie.

This would involve far too much thinking, something not abundant on the subject of Maggie.

[dcb]

colonel c said:

Churchill united the nation. Thatcher divided it.

Possibly only in the minds of a dwindling band of old-style socialists, but to quote Wikipedia

In February 2007 Thatcher became the first living UK Prime Minister to be honoured with a statue in the Houses of Parliament.

and

Geoffrey Howe, by then Lord Howe of Aberavon, was also present, and said of his former leader: "Her real triumph was to have transformed not just one party but two, so that when Labour did eventually return, the great bulk of Thatcherism was accepted as irreversible."

and

Thatcher returned to 10 Downing Street in late November 2009 for the unveiling of an official portrait by the artist Richard Stone,[187] an unusual honour for a living ex-Prime Minister.

On the basis of those three points, I'd say a full state
funeral would be very likely.

I'd say point 2 is the crucial point. However much
some old style socialists grumble, even the new style
Labour party had to accept her point of view as valid,
to get elected.

[Night Runner]

I vaguely remember reading that she wanted some type of maritime burial...

Could be wrong!

[Paul Dishman]

The lefties can't wait to dance on her grave..

[Pupp]

No doubt it'll be a state funeral followed by instant sainthood

[randlemarcus]

Night Runner said:

I vaguely remember reading that she wanted some type of maritime burial...

Could be wrong!

Paul Dishman said:

The lefties can't wait to dance on her grave..

These two things together may be the beginnings of a plan

[groak]

She's more or less dead anyway so why not just bury what's left of her now?
Any crossroads at midnight will do, as long as someone's got the stake, the garlic, and the lead coffin with the crucifix on the lid. And that should be us safe from her for another 1000 years.