The Iron Lady Is Gone

[odeon]

There was absolutely no need for that Odeon.


Very tempting to fix that pic, but i shall refrain

It's a scary one, isn't it?

[bodie]

Macabre

[Adam]

Her funeral cost 3.6 million pounds.

Meanwhile...

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/paupers-funerals-friends-in-deed-shining-1209840

(That's just my city btw. It's true of pretty much anywhere)

[McGiver]

Her funeral cost 3.6 million pounds.

Meanwhile...

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/paupers-funerals-friends-in-deed-shining-1209840

(That's just my city btw. It's true of pretty much anywhere)

sad.

It seems as if most people are simply born, hired, and disposed of.

[bodie]

Instead of spending 3.6 million i would have slung it's miserable old carcass in the Thames for a tenner 

[odeon]

[McGiver]

Instead of spending 3.6 million i would have slung it's miserable old carcass in the Thames for a tenner 

fishy food.

What should they have done with the 3.6 million instead?

['andersom']

Instead of spending 3.6 million i would have slung it's miserable old carcass in the Thames for a tenner 

fishy food.

What should they have done with the 3.6 million instead?

It would have to be used to compensate European fishers, because it would be unsafe to eat fish from the North Sea for a couple of years.

[bodie]

Instead of spending 3.6 million i would have slung it's miserable old carcass in the Thames for a tenner 

fishy food.

What should they have done with the 3.6 million instead?

Guppy chow!  poor fish.

Well i dunno, as far as i know there wasn't 3.6 million put aside.  So it must have come out of the treasury  or the money budgeted for essential services.   However if the money was just lurking somewhere it should go to compensate the miners.

Anyway, where did 3.6 million come from.  News here suggests 10 million.  10 million wouldn't fix much but would be better spent in those poor areas she ravaged.

If the government thought she was so loved by the people and that we ought to foot the bill then they should have opened up a phone line that people could pledge money to.  I would say that is fair. 

[McGiver]

Instead of spending 3.6 million i would have slung it's miserable old carcass in the Thames for a tenner 

fishy food.

What should they have done with the 3.6 million instead?

Guppy chow!  poor fish.

Well i dunno, as far as i know there wasn't 3.6 million put aside.  So it must have come out of the treasury  or the money budgeted for essential services.   However if the money was just lurking somewhere it should go to compensate the miners.

Anyway, where did 3.6 million come from.  News here suggests 10 million.  10 million wouldn't fix much but would be better spent in those poor areas she ravaged.

If the government thought she was so loved by the people and that we ought to foot the bill then they should have opened up a phone line that people could pledge money to.  I would say that is fair.

10 million could have given 1000 struggling families 10,000 each and that would have eloped them out tremendously.  Who knows, some might have invested in businesses that may have prospered.
I don't know, giving the money to he needy is way better than burying a dead hag.

[Bastet]

Doesn't "the iron lady" have her own money?!? I am sure she has plenty from "donations" from tories and "incentives" for being a cunt.

[odeon]

She didn't take the money with her, no.

I do think it is reasonable to have the state handle her funeral. Prime ministers tend to get state funerals.

[bodie]

I don't know about her estate or how wealthy she was.
Her son is a thieving racist fascist pig who narrowly escaped jail.  He is rolling in filthy lucre.  He could have coughed up?

The only other PM who had a 'state' funeral was Churchill.   The big difference is that Churchill,  despite
being extremely tory, was actually very popular among the middle and working class people. 

I feel that spending that amount of cash on somebody who is dead is absurd.  I would extend that to Churchill too.  We have just faced one of the longest, harshest winters in memory.  We have homeless, we have thousands of kids living in poverty, and we have pensioners who have to decide on whether to eat or heat their homes.  Spending money on the dead is ridiculous when we have so many people struggling to stay alive!

She apparently left instructions for her funeral.   She did not leave an accompanying cheque.  So, Maggie, right to the end it seems even her dying wish was to fleece working class people. 

[skyblue1]

should have left her laying where she fell

unless she died in battle, leading her troops in a charge

[odeon]

I don't know about her estate or how wealthy she was.
Her son is a thieving racist fascist pig who narrowly escaped jail.  He is rolling in filthy lucre.  He could have coughed up?

The only other PM who had a 'state' funeral was Churchill.   The big difference is that Churchill,  despite
being extremely tory, was actually very popular among the middle and working class people. 

I feel that spending that amount of cash on somebody who is dead is absurd.  I would extend that to Churchill too.  We have just faced one of the longest, harshest winters in memory.  We have homeless, we have thousands of kids living in poverty, and we have pensioners who have to decide on whether to eat or heat their homes.  Spending money on the dead is ridiculous when we have so many people struggling to stay alive!

She apparently left instructions for her funeral.   She did not leave an accompanying cheque.  So, Maggie, right to the end it seems even her dying wish was to fleece working class people. 

I thought the amount was absurd, too.