Thatcher Continues To Divide.

[diddlydo]

Disgraceful that this sum of money should be spent on unveiling her statue in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/02/mini-brexit-margaret-thatchers-statue-divides-her-hometown

[Mamyalynne]

What a waste of eggs, thoughtless.

[emmie]

agreed

[david small]

I detested Thatcher when alive. I loathe Thatcher now she’s dead.

[gulliver1]

Have they parked her broomstick close by, for use every Halloween.

[emmie]

Margaret Thatcher · Died
08 Apr 2013

that's a long time to detest someone.

[Jackdaw33]

Funny how someone supposedly so widely detested manages to win three elections on the trot, two of them landslides

[Theland]

Statue paid for by private money, no problem.
Erected in a public square? Would attract vandals and benefit the Left.
Better in a museum.

[emmie]

mind you i didn't care for Blair, and he won three was it?

[emmie]

theland probably

[emmie]

they have vandalised Winston Churchills statue in London endless times, vandalism for vandalism sake perhaps

[New Judge]

//...that's a long time to detest someone.//

Indeed it is, emmie. She left office in 1990 and that's a very much longer time to blame someone for all the country's ills.

[david small]

I don’t just blame her. Also the creature Blair. Also snivelling Brown to an extent.

[bobbinwales]

Is there any Prime minister that you thinks been at least half decent david small?

[david small]

Clement Attlee was a decent chap.

[Theland]

How about trying to devise an economic policy yourselves that you think would be fair and popular?

[Mozz71]

I can't be bothered to read the whole thread to see which direction it's gone in since it was created, so I'll comment only on the OP.

An utter waste of money. Not because it's Maggie, but because it's a blooming statue, at a time where businesses are going under and people are losing jobs. Oh well, it'll give BLM a new target of nothing else.

[gulliver1]

£100,000, Would have paid for a lot of school meals , for kids in poverty . But this is a Con Gov't that only looks after their own Cronies ,even when they are deceased.

[emmie]

some should read the whole thread, if you look at it.

[emmie]

100k probably for the policing that its going to cost for the idiots who may well turn up, going on the signed petiition to do so, who most likely weren't even born when she was in office.
There is no breakdown i can see for the 100k that i can find but suggest that it will go on the the above.

[emmie]

don;t think the Conservative government had a lot of imput into this