Confusion is rife over plans for the death of Baroness Thatcher, mother of convicted terrorist Mark Thatcher.
Barry Beef reports that the Prime Minister’s political secretary John McTernan is reassuring Labour backbenchers that no such event will take place - but was it all a mass hallucination when, a few weeks ago the media seemed to report the opposite?
What do you think should happen to Maggie? Please let your views be known by answering the poll.
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Mark Thatcher a terrorist? And I suppose Hezbollah are a bunch of real nice guys. God, you lefties are so nuts.
sheepdip said this on August 12th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
State funeral? She should get a state death, Pierrepoint stylee.
Patrick H said this on August 12th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
How about restricting her to NHS healthcare and a social services care home for all future care, none of this going private stuff.
Stephen Booth said this on August 12th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Can we have special bunting with her picture on it? Alternating with Arggentinian flags.
AB said this on August 13th, 2006 at 12:23 am
Sheepdip - how is a man who helps organise a coup in a fragile African country any less of a terrorist than Hizbullah? Just because he’s white, wears a suit, and comes from good British stock doesn’t exempt him from the same rules as everyone else.
Personally I have more sympathy for Hizbullah than I do Mark Thatcher (in terms of their aims), but they’re both terrorists and their actions cannot be countenanced and should be denounced.
Red Tamarin said this on August 13th, 2006 at 10:40 am
If the sins of the father should not be visited upon the sons, how is it suitable that the sins of the son be visited upon the mother. To tar Maggie with the brush of terrorism is disingenuous to say the least - state funeral, definitely not. Allowed to live the remainder of her days in peace - definitely.
Tub O'Lard said this on August 13th, 2006 at 11:54 am
She should be hung in a gibbet outside central office as a warning to others. And Mark thatcher should be rotting in an African jail.
Anyhoo, not long now…
altrui said this on August 13th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
you lot are so bitter!
There is no way she should have a state funeral and be put on a par with Churchill
Jonny said this on August 13th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Bullied at school were we? Still haven’t got over it? Because judging by the tone of some of these comments there must be something playing on your mind. No friends? Don’t go out much? Is that what’s troubling you? Don’t worry about it. Ian Brady NEVER goes out.
the uk daily pundit said this on August 13th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
I believe in this country than is customary to burn witches.
Nuff said.
Howler monkey said this on August 13th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Having knocked around the House of Commons for eight years its remarkable who you meet and who you don’t meet. I have met several MPs who are at best describe as distasteful in the extreme but in meeting them I remained civil. In those eight years I never met Margaret Thatcher and I’m rather glad that I didn’t, as she’s the only person there that I have may well have trouble from stopping myself from hitting. HM.
Howler monkey said this on August 13th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
why would you want to hit her
JImbo said this on August 14th, 2006 at 10:11 am
i believe it is tranditional for a dancing troupe of oompahloompahs to do a bit of a sing song and then a young slip of a girl to take her shoes….
though i could be mistaken
Ayotollah of Rock n Rollah said this on August 14th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Yes a state funeral. The prosession should go through the streets of Grimethorpe and everyone should be given something the throw at the coffin!
Gman said this on August 14th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
I think that there should be a concert to celebrate her passing. Excerpts from the shows would be good. I vote for ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’.
Womble said this on August 14th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Ah the bitterness in your leffite voices. The tribute to her achievement (other than the sincerest form of flattery from Mr Blair) is the passion in you, the last echoes of your lost naive left wing causes.
She transformed Britain, and peoples lives, for the better. It was not without a price - my own father was made redundant after 35 years in the car industry - but thinking people don’t blame the surgeon, they blame the disease. The disease was socialism and I’m delighted all you have left to do is vent your pathetic anger on sites like these.
State Funeral or not, I, and thousands of others, will shed tears when shes passes, and pay tribute to a Lioness of the British political stage.
Tony Smith said this on August 14th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
you are a morbid bunch aren’t you
JImbo said this on August 14th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
f*ck me, tony smith gives us a case study in the oedipus complex
Ayotollah of Rock n Rollah said this on August 14th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
It is a misuse of the English language to say that Mark was convicted of terrorism. Whether he should have been not only convicted but left to rot in jail is a different matter. Whatever you think of Maggie her main claim to fame & what she will be honoured for is not bing Mark’s mum (call it a hunch).
Now if you had asked the question about Mary - whose only claim to fame really is that she was the mother of a convicted terrorist!
Neil Craig said this on August 14th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Mark Thatcher was fined the equivalent of US$500,000 (£265,000) and given a four-year suspended jail term. He admitted breaking anti-mercenary legislation in South Africa by agreeing to finance a helicopter. See BBC
“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001
Lobster Blogster said this on August 14th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
I would say that it was a borderline case for a state funeral. She was, after all, the first female Prime Minister of this country, she did put a stop to all that nonsense of trade union leaders deciding who was to have an electricity supply that week, or who would be able to bury their own dead in a dignified fashion. She did prevent an unelected military regime taking over the Falkland Islands against the wishes of the people that lived there. Her and Rocket Ronnie did plant the seeds that caused the downfall of the Berlin Wall, and the breakup of the Soviet Union, thus bringing economic and political freedom to hundreds of millions of people across Europe. It was her Government that sold off BT, so that you now don’t have to wait six months before you get your own telephone line. She also reduced the huge amounts of money going to the EU as subsidies for inefficient farming methods. Oh, and overall, she stopped the folly of huge amounts of tax money being pissed up against the wall in propping up inefficient industry.
On the other hand, there are all those abandoned coal mining areas up and down the country, and we all know what a healthy, joyous, carbon neutral, activity coal mining is don’t we?
So, on the one hand, we’ve got the political and economic freedom of hundreds of millions of people, and the possibility of a low-tax, efficient, democratic Europe.
On the other hand the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band, aint going to be able to find as many pit ponies to carry them around to their next gig.
You lot think you’re the clever ones, I’ll let you decide.
David Worth said this on August 15th, 2006 at 12:49 am
David if you think Maggie closed large numbers of pits for the good of the environment you must be living in a fantasy world!!
They were closed to destroy the power of the NUM! One excuse being that foreign mined coal was cheaper, but low and behold its gradually increased in price as more and more of Britian’s mines have beeen closed, what a surprise! Still it is the free market afterall!
Gman said this on August 17th, 2006 at 5:34 pm