Thatchers Funeral - How Much Did It Cost?

[suzecruze]

Does anybody know the final cost of Margaret Thatchers funeral? Does anybody know who attended her funeral apart from the vague term 11 priministers?

[VHG]

Her funeral cost a fraction of the rebate she gained in 1984.

This has probably "saved2 us about 70 billion pounds in EU contributions over the time.

It is also worth pointing out we were the THIRD POOREST member of the EU at the time, far different from today (thanks to Thatcher)

[Just-Jude]

A load of Z list celebs were invited to make her funeral look more respectable. By the time they were all fed and claimed their expenses, the bill probably topped 12 million!

[Flyhalf]

Must have been a lot - it brought George Osborne to tears!

[factor-fiction]

The cost was probably closer to zero than £10 million when we take account of the tourism and sales of TV rights

[factor-fiction]

Ed Milliband will probably know as the plans were approved by the Labour government around 5 years ago

[gina32]

far too much!

[mazie]

LOL @ flyhalf :o)

[Brenden]

You could not put a price on it, she was a great lady and a strong leader, and deserved a grand funeral - I am pleased she got it.

[Baldric]

£10 would have been too much for the average detractor, I'm just pleased they kept their mouths shut long enough for it to happen without incident!

[gina32]

I could think of a lot of things that all that money could have been put to better use

[DJHawkes]

a customer well into her 80s came in yesterday asking for a copy of the hymn sheet from the funeral that had been in one of the papers. she'd missed out on that but we have a couple of books for sale on thatcher and so i showed her those, she tried to engage me in conversation about thatchers achievements but of course it would be more than my jobs worth to offer any personal opinion and i didn't want to lie to her and so i didn't engage. then she was flicking through one of the books with lots of pictures in chunnering on about this 70billion (funny how people have retained that exact figure and info) and the lady said, who that? pointing to a picture, 'sands? ' wonder who that is she said, so i told her who it was and she had no idea. obviously not quite as knowledgeable on the era as she thought, people are bandwaggon jumpers even at 80 odd years old.

[ladybirder]

We did her proud.

[DJHawkes]

I didn't I stayed in bed, noone will have noticed.

[Svejk]

Suzecruze///apart from the vague term 11 priministers? ///
Very vague, I never heard off such a thing. Lol ;)

[THECORBYLOON]

Dot, why do you expect a woman in her eighties to remember a dead Sinn Féin/IRA MP? Many folk in their eighties have failing memory so why should she be any different?

[DJHawkes]

she remembered her son buying her a book 20 years ago, we have the reissued title in and she said he gave it her when it was first out. She is a regular customer and though frail she has never come across as in any way mentally impaired, that's your assesment not mine .

[THECORBYLOON]

Her jumping on the bandwagon is your assessement too, is it not?

[boxtops]

I don't think it's bandwagon jumping at all, it just triggered a load of memories, as it did for many of us.