I have asked this under News/Current Events but wondered what the Seniors thought.
I read in the Scottish Daily Record yesterday that plans are well under way to give Margaret Thatcher a state funeral when she dies. The cost will be millions of pounds, with the policing of the event costing £2 million alone.
I think Winston Churchill definitely deserved his state funeral but what on earth did this woman do to deserve such an honour? She is hated with a vengeance in Scotland. She caused the miners strikes during the 80s and almost brought our country to its knees. There are no coal mines in Scotland at all now.
Former MP George Galloway said in the newspaper article – she should go to an unmarked watery grave at sea, off the Falklands at a spot where she ordered the sinking of the Belgrano.
What’s your opinion? I suppose it all depends on whether you vote conservative or not.
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YES, immediately, if not sooner.
This is the woman who deprived the schoolchildren of their free half-pint of milk and when the UK was hit by a cold weather spell, gave heating allowances to the English people and when asked why not to the Scottish people, her reply was “They are used to the cold”!
That says it all to me.
She was not a favourite of mine,but by God she was one of the best we have ever had,she was dead right about the Euro,(I was against it from the start) she frightened the Russians and killed the Unions of the time,what would she have done with those in power now? Give her that honour,she deserves it.
Perhaps we should wait until she dies. But if she has been bitten by Norman Tebbit, don’t be holding your breath. But love her or hate her, she was the last PM who said what she thought and at least had some honesty. She took us to war to save British sovereign territory. Blair and Cameron have been killing British troops and squandering billions on wars that have nothing to do with us.
Yes, she had more courage in her little finger than all the prime ministers which have come after her have had combined. When she said something she meant it.
I’m expecting many thumbs down for this.
She could be interred in some coal mine, if one could be found open!…..
She should be burned at the stake before she’s dead. She decimated Wales. The area i’m from produced 49% of total world coal production at the start of C20th now there are only a few small private mines. Our steelworks are owned by India, as are Jaguar cars.The Germans own Rolls Royce cars and Cadbury chocolates and hundreds of other successful companies are in foreign hands. Her legacy is a bankrupt Britain.The Labour govt. should hang their heads in shame for endorsing her policies and not sticking to their true socialist ideals.Keir Hardy will be turning in his grave
Personally, I think it would be wrong to bestow this honour on Margaret Thatcher. This sort of thing is reserved for “exceptionally distinguished persons” of the UK. The UK being the important bit. Winston Churchill was the last Prime Minister that received this, deservedly so, as he managed to bring the four nations of the Union together in a single minded determination when it was required.
Mrs Thatcher on the other hand was divisive to the Union. She alienated Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This can be evidenced by the fact that when she was in power the conservative vote was decimated everywhere but England.
I also feel that she played a significant part( by being so alienating) in bringing about the resolve for separate parliaments/assemblies in three out of the four UK nations.
The feeling of separation she created in the UK is now becoming more apparent as it looks quite likely that Scotland shall leave the Union at some point. I believe that without Mrs Thatcher at the Helm of the UK this scenario wasn’t that likely.
Overall, I think she was an exceptional woman for the needs of England, but woeful for the overall needs of the UK. As the UK is the “state” that would be providing such an honour I don’t think there is a remit to do so.
I’m not a senior but I’m answering anyway. Yes! she should have a State Funeral.
As to the Scottish hatred, well, Baroness Thatcher hopefully still has many long years of life ahead of her. In the meantime Scotland can have its Independence Referendum in 2015 (all of England is hoping for a ‘yes’ vote), so that by the time she does pass away you Scots won’t have to pay a penny.
Problem solved.
Ps – when you do get your long-hoped-for independence could you pleeease take Northern Ireland with you? The last thing we English want is to be left dumped with Scotland’s manky colony.
Of course she should. She was one of the greatest Prime Ministers that this country has ever had. She rescued it from the depths of debt created by Messrs. Wilson and Healey who had to go cap in hand to the IMF for a loan to stop us going bust. She took on the Unions who were intent on dragging the country down on its knees with the winter of discontent – there was rubbish piled up on the streets and the dead went unburied. She took on the dreadful Arthur Scargill whose proposals for the coal mines were so ludicrous as to be laughable. He forgot one thing – there was no coal left to be mined! All we were doing was paying miners for nothing.
And before you all reach for the disapprove button, please don’t forget the Falklands and the members of the armed forces who gave their lives protecting that island from the invaders.
My thoughts are more in-line with what Mr Galloway suggests, although an unmarked grave at sea has two drawbacks: if it’s unmarked we can’t check that she’s still there and if it’s at sea it’ll presumably cause widespread death to local marine life.
I’d rather we burnt her on a pyre in Leicester Square then bury her remains in a lead-lined coffin outside Westminster as a constant reminder to other politicians.
Hateful old bat.
Yes, of course, she deserves a state Funeral —- in Chile…. and be buried with her friend Pinochet!!!
An evil, pompous, ” woman” who caused the destruction of lives and deaths of so many people
The “Falklands War” was about protecting pontential for exploring Oil not people – why were the people of the Falklands DENIED british citizenship a few months prior to this war ??
A sabre rattling, callous “woman”
Definetly not
No.
She did far more harm than good as a politician, and her time in Number 10 was a disaster for the country.
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