Doesn't It Make One Proud To Be Right-Wing?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310357/Thousands-Baroness-Thatcher-fans-world-line-streets-watch-ex-PMs-historic-funeral-procession-St-Pauls.html

Note the difference in reporting, The Daily Mail respectfully addressees her as
Baroness Thatcher, whereas The Guardian just as Thatcher.

20,000 according to the Daily Mail are said to have paid their respects to this lady, whereas the Guardian published a pathetic video of those 300 protesting.

/// Numbers of protesters swelled and by the time Thatcher's coffin went by at 10.45 police at the scene estimated there were about 300 protesters. ///

Wow a massive 300.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/17/protesters-turn-backs-thatcher-coffin

[Quizmonster]

It clearly has never occurred to the Maggiolaters that the vast bulk of the people who detest her don't live in London! Would they seriously expect a Liverpudlian, say, to spend money on train-fare and so on just to get there in order to be on the fringes of a Tory political stunt?

[emmie]

QM, a political stunt, of course it isn't. This was already discussed with the the Labour party 5 years ago, you really don't think that they could get it organised in a few days, nor determine how many people should attend or what the nature of the funeral should be, or her wishes. She had dementia for a considerable time, so i wonder exactly how she would have told DC what she wanted, or didn't want.
Why didn't they protest in their home towns then, if they couldn't get down to London.

[Quizmonster]

The Tories milked the entire ten days - never mind just the funeral - for political advantage.
Cameron, "We're all Thatcherites now."
No, we're bloody NOT! For example, as someone pointed out recently, "There are more pandas than Tory MPs in Scotland."

[anneasquith]

nothing would make me proud to be '' right wing ''

[Quizmonster]

I just did a brief survey of the membership of Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast city councils, the major cities of three of the four elements of the UK, as well as those of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool. Amongst them, there are 53 Conservative/Unionist councillors from a total of 507. Manchester and Liverpool have zero and Glasgow but one!
Yeah, it really sounds as if Cameron got it rigt and there is a veritable wave of Thatcherism inundating Britain!

[emmie]

QM, she was out of office in 1990, and now dead, do you really think she cares. As to DC, he isn't in her league, none of them are. You seem blind to the fact that no one cares, the funeral is over, now you can rant on about someone else perhaps.

[chaptazbru]

"Why didn't they protest in their home towns then, if they couldn't get down to London" Don't know about anywhere else, but they did in Liverpool, on a grand scale !

[emmie]

from the BBC website.
a crowd of 100 protesters gathered at St George's Plateau in Liverpool and stamped on a coffin bearing an image of Baroness Thatcher and did the conga, while cheering and chanting.

[shaneystar2]

Isn't about time she was left to rest in peace .
It's over .I 'm not a fan .I'm one of these "nasty loony lefties" people keep banging on about .But I would never disrespect anyone in death in spite of their political views .Give it a rest for goodness sake .Let history judge her.

[emmie]

i couldn't agree more.

[Quizmonster]

"Left to rest in peace", eh? Well, as an atheist, I think that is a given, once you're dead. (Having said that, I think that the phrase "rest in peace" is really an absurdity, both key words being utterly inapplicable to the deceasd. The dead are not 'resting' and the concept of 'peace' is, for them, meaningless.)

I haven't seen you around for ages, Shaney, but I'm sorry...I simply could not allow Cameron's absurd claim to pass without comment. From what you say about your views, I'm sure you too would quibble at being called a Thatcherite by the likes of him!

[chaptazbru]

Those 100 protestors were just a part of it. Like I said, Liverpool did it on a grand scale.