RIGeezer - you slipped up and used the well-worm right-wing phrase 'our children' - which goes along with 'our boys', 'our heroes', and, heaven forbid - 'our country'.
In regard to council housing - yes there are indeed some left, but the vast majority were sold to occupiers in a 'one-off' vote-catching deal which has left the deserving and genuinely needy members of society - sorry, OUR society - without an afforible means of housing, a disgrace in the developed world.
Thatcher was a politician - she sought, gained, abused, and lost power - that does not qualify her for a 'heroic' funeral paid for by burdened tax-payers.
Let her use some of the multi-million pound fortune she inherited from her late husband, and she can pay for as may 21-gun salutes as she wants - assuming they can find enough soliders not dying in illgegal wars to pop over and blast them off for her!