Would You Cancel A Previous Fulneral To Go To Margaret Thatchers?

[jake-the-peg]

The Mail has accused Neil Kinnock of snubbing Margaret Thatcher to go to a fulneral of an ex-collleague that he previously accepted an invitation to go to.

Personally that seems low even for the Mail

I certainly wouldn't cancel such an arrangement because I'd had an invitation to a more important fulneral, even someone I greatly admired

Is that just me?

If you'd agreed to go to another fulneral would you cancel for someone more important?

[murraymints]

No wouldn't...

[Old_Geezer]

Surely you can dance at the funeral you were already planning to go to ?

[naomi24]

No, I wouldn't.

[LazyGun]

Its the Mail doing their level best to demonise anyone who in any way might be seen to be slighting Maggie.

If he has made a prior appointment, he should honour it. And if he hasn't, it is entirely up to him whether he goes or not..

[sfby]

"seems low even for the Mail"

I think you'll find there are no depths to which the Mail will not sink in order to denigrate "the Left" or the BBC.

(And no, I wouldn't cancel a prior engagement - that's just rude)

[jno]

nope.

To put it in terms of the living, though... you've agreed to go to a girls' night out, then suddenly you get an invite to a party that Geroge Clooney will be attending... what to do, what to do...

[LazyGun]

@jno LoL :)

[snags]

No... even if it means missing out on fancier cakes and sandwiches after the event.

[sp1814]

JTP - I've heard about this on Twitter.

No - I certainly would not cancel...it just the Mail stirring again.

A couple of days ago they lied about Huw Edwards wearing a pink tie to announce Baroness Thatcher's death and today, they lead with this story:

"BBC 'witch song' insult to Maggie"

Now, reading that, would you not think that the BBC had actually commissioned the song!

The Mail is using Margaret Thatcher's death for some very unsavoury reasons.

[sp1814]

jno

In your example, the answer is simple. Feign an illness, cancel the girls' night out and spend the evening with Clooney.

[jake-the-peg]

Of course now I'm wondering if I'd cancel going to Margaret Thatchers Fulneral to go to that of someone I really liked

I hope I wouldn't - but I think I might

[jno]

indeed, sp1814; but does that mean I've just ignored the moral principles that would make me attend a friend's funeral ahead of Thatcher's?

More likely I suppose is that death is a more serious matter than partying and if you do the wrong thing it stays with you forever.

[Sqad]

Two funerals on the same day...............unusual and convenient.

If I was Neil Kinnock, I know which one i would want to miss.

[jno]

Sqad, I think the point wasn't so much that they were on the same day as that one invitation came through first and he'd accepted it. (Well, I'm not sure most funerals actually send out invitations, but you know what I mean.)

[Sqad]

jno....LOL

[woofgang]

i think it is an honest and polite response TBH. If he doesn't feel it right to attend then he shouldn't....the reason of a previous serious engagement, whether true or not is good manners, much better than shown by other of her non-supporters

[LazyGun]

@ Sqad - Well that seems, on the face of it, to be a pretty cynical view.

He was a former Islwyn MP, she was a former Islwyn Labour councillor.

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/10349153.Lord_Kinnock_to_miss_Baroness_Thatcher_s_funeral_to_pay_tribute_to_former_Islwyn_councillor/?ref=nt

Now, they may not have known each other well and Kinnock is using this as a providentially convenient excuse not to go - but that seems a cynical interpretation of the facts. Even were it so, so what?

Any other interpretation of the timing of the events would be pretty baseless, don't you think?

[jake-the-peg]

But sqad

Would you go back on accepting a fulneral invitation because you'd had an invite to the Thatcher one?

[Sqad]

LaZyGun/JTP

Just an observation.

No,IF I had to make a choice between two funerals on the same day....................which would be coincidental.........but possible, then i would not renege on my first acceptance.

[LazyGun]

@ Sqad - fair enough :)