Should Baroness Thatcher be given a State Funeral

Question

Should Baroness Thatcher be given a State Funeral

Answer 1

While she's still "Alive".....h**l yes that will be interesting.....

Answer 2

No, she is a traitor to the ordinary citizens of our islands. Remember 15% mortgage rates, the wholesale selling off of our core industries, to foreigners and her rich chums. Remeber the poll tax riots when the Tory party had finally to rid itself of this embarrassing meglomaniac. On her death she should be shoved through Traitors Arch at the Tower, in a tumbril, then in the same vehicle, transported  for formal burial by being thrown down a redundant pit shaft.THere should be plenty of volunteers.

Answer 3

Only if they bury her right now, if not NO she shouldn't be given a state funeral.

I would send her to her hole in the ground on the back of a milk float as a reminder to everyone who wants to watch that the b**ch stopped free milk for little school children, maybe even bury her down an old mine shaft....

Answer 4

Yes she was a good prime minister but she is no longer serving so no, let her estate pay for it just like the rest of us and then the government can have they rather large share of the rest of it.

Answer 5

I dont think she should. Why she is beats me.

With whats happening in Government these days it doesnt surprise me.

Missing laptops,misssing disc`s McCann cover up etc.Whats it coming to

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Only if we're allowed to dance on her grave afterwards.

Answer 8

As probably the greatest Prime minister this country has ever had then I would think a state funeral is entirely fitting.

Though he PMship certainly polarized some sections of society,"all of the people cant be pleased all of the time."

However, on the whole,the country was rescued from disaster,people were given motivation,incentive and most took advantage of it.Suddenly,people who had accepted life as working class,semi dependant upon the state,in state housing,found themselves running their own businesses and often becoming huge employers.

Britain became respected upon the world stage,we were back.

Though there were casualties of the radical economic overhaul,they were most often those who contributed the least in the first place.Those that wanted to advance ,finally could throw off the shackles and do so.

If only this country had a leader with the same guts,insight and determination now.

God Bless Mrs Thatcher.

edit.

The thumbs ratio makes interesting reading.

Even after over a decade of New Labour lies,spin,economic disaster,erosion of civil rights,kow-towing to the EU,surrendering our sovereignty and our laws,inviting millions of unskilled thieving,murdering immigrants to our shores,there are still people that condemn the Tory government that made this country the wealthiest since the industrial revolution.

What further evidence do people need?

New Labour has bankrupted our country,wiped out Christianity in our country and handed over control to our European enemies.

I think the problem here is that ,generally speaking the Yahoo Q+A contributor are those with more free time aka those without jobs.These are the people who were less educated and the most easily manipulated by Union and Labour party spin.Of course the unemployed and lower skilled were generally those who had least to gain from a tory government.Generally speaking they are the ones that suffer from class envy and demand the most for doing the least.Then when they dont get it they blame the government for failure.Even though everyone else benefitted from the Thatcher government,hence being the longest continous serving PM in history.

I suppose the same people will be voting for New Labour at the next election "cos they' good f' wkin' man".

Whatever!

Answer 9

she will be apparently. The first PM to do so since Winston Churchill

Private     you and i are as one accord. I also believe that she was a great PM, yes she made lots of mistakes, but the pygmies in power now can't hold a light to her.

many people who make derogatory remarks don;t know what life was like under the Labour party before they became New Labour, constant strikes, three day weeks, sitting in darkness at work, i remember it well. And unions were by and large to blame for our reputation in Europe, We weren't called the sick man of Europe for nothing you know.

More people owning their own homes, business did boom, and for a time, like then we hit a crisis, but  if she had a major flaw it was she didn't listen to the political heavyweights in her party enough.

Answer 10

I can see no acceptable reason why she should be afforded a state funeral.

Answer 11

No.

Answer 12

If by state funeral you mean transported to the North where victims of her policies can desecrate her corpse then yes, yes she should

Answer 13

As long as it's done before she is actually dead then it has my full support.

It would be a pantomime I would pay good money to see.

Answer 14

has she passed ?.. haven't heard anything..

Answer 15

Yes, provided it involves the following:

1.  Her coffin passes through an entourage of ex-miners who never worked again so that they can express their respects.

2. The words "there is no such thing as society" are emblazoned on the sides of the coffin.

3. A tribute is read out by a Chilean fascist supporter of General Pinochet.

4. The whole thing is organised by a privatised company which gives the lowest bid for the thing regardless of quality of service.

5. The thing is televised only on some deregulated satellite station owned by Rupert Murdoch as a tax loss and interrupted every five minutes by adverts for internet gambling sites.

I'm sure this is what she would want.

(and I love the fact that the person who wrote "God bless Mrs Thatcher" has a swastika on their avatar.  That sums up her admirers, really.)

Answer 16

No she should be cremated. Better for the planet.

Answer 17

Yes she should.

Just like Tony Blair should be given that war crimes trial.

Answer 18

Yes she should. She wasn't without fault but along with Churchill was the greatest Prime Minister we have ever had. What she did for the UK on the world stage was unprecedented in terms of the respect we finally got after years of destructive labour rule. Once again we have returned to being a third rate nation under New Labour and their obsession with PC lunacy. Thatcher was a leader with vision. She had the guts to make unpopular decisions and she knew what made a country great. Decent hard working people with back bone and a sense of personal responsibility flourished under her leadership, people with the sort of spirit that won us 2 world wars. The vindictive and uneducated comments to this question show that her opposers were those most at risk under her rule; idle, uneducated, jobsworth lefties.  

Answer 19

No, war criminals shouldn't be accorded any respect.

Answer 20

Why should the Queen of privatisation be given a state funeral?

I think she should be given a private funeral where all of it subcontracted to various companies. With any look, she would be buried in Canada, have her headstone written in Chinese but her family are waiting for her in England but it actually turns out her corpse is sent to the Tower of London and stuck on a pole. Then the company can send her a letter of apology.

That'll teach her what privatisation means.

Or should she be covered in molten iron and solidified? Then she really would be the Iron Lady.

  

If she does have a State funeral then it will probably be a national celebration.  

Answer 21

Not while she is still alive!

Answer 22

Like the end of Frankenstien?  Villagers with pitch-forks and torches!  Yeah, bring it on!!

Answer 23

YES

Answer 24

I noticed a new group on facebook calling for a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher. So It would seem some people do will be interesting to see how many.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

Born 13th October 1925. British politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the first and only woman to date to hold either post.

Born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, she went on to read Chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford. She was selected as Conservative candidate for Finchley in 1958 and won the seat in the general election the following year. Upon the election of Edward Heath in 1970, Thatcher was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science. In 1974, she backed Sir Keith Joseph for the Conservative party leader, but after falling short he dropped out of the race. Thatcher entered herself and became leader of the Conservative party in 1975. As the Conservative party maintained leads in most polls, Thatcher went on to become Britain's Prime Minister in the 1979 General Election.

Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister was the longest since that of Lord Salisbury and was the longest continuous period in office since the tenure of Lord Liverpool who was Prime Minister in the early 19th century. She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK, and the first of only three women to have held any of the four great offices of state. Among other things, she defiantly opposed the Soviet Union, and her tough-talking rhetoric gained her the nickname the "Iron Lady". She currently has a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, which entitles her to sit in the House of Lords

Recent reply 6 hours ago

Harman denies Thatcher funeral plan

No decision has been made to grant former prime minister Lady Thatcher a state funeral, a senior Cabinet minister said.

Reports last month suggested that representatives of both Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Queen were in touch with Lady Thatcher's office to put in place arrangements to make her the first premier since Sir Winston Churchill to be given the honour.

But Leader of the Commons Harriet Harman, who as Labour's deputy leader has been "minding the shop" during Mr Brown's holiday this week, said that the stories were not accurate.

Ms Harman declined to say whether she thought that the former PM should have a state funeral - normally reserved for monarchs - but said she had been told by other senior ministers that no decision had been taken on the issue.

"There is no arrangement on this and those stories are not accurate," Ms Harman told The Guardian newspaper.

Reports that the former Conservative leader would be given a state funeral sparked controversy, with the proposal welcomed by supporters, while opponents argued she was too divisive a figure as prime minister to merit this state-funded national tribute.

Concerns were also raised that insufficient soldiers would be available to line the streets as her coffin was taken to St Paul's Cathedral.

There is no indication of any current concern for the health of the 82-year-old, who as Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

Answer 25

Yes, but let's wait until she's passed away, shall we?

Answer 26

Yes. But,preferably while she is still alive. Maybe a Hindu funeral pyre would be best. I might just organise a posse with some rotting fruit and veg to lob at  the hearse.Maybe some lumps of coal and milk bottles.And wave the Argentine Flag.Erect a huge screen and rerun news footage of the Poll Tax Riots,etc... Anyone want to come along? Oh yeah,let's not forget that she wouldn't boycott white South Africa,the list goes on...

Answer 27

with the state of our economy no! i just think it is a complete waste of taxpayers money, what will she care when she has gone anyway?

Answer 28

Didn't know she was dead.

Probably too late to organise a state occasion at such short notice

Answer 29

Yes. As soon as possible.

Answer 30

I would just put her in an old cardboard box to remind her of the amount of homeless people she helped create and throw her down an old mine shaft to remind her of the pits she closed.

Answer 31

I don't understand the reasoning behind that idea -I don't think she should really ,but  it will be entertainment on the t.v for the afternoon.!