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?

[emmie]

there are 2,000 invitees, so hardly going to miss him.

[sir.prize]

CD - that would be too easy. The daily wails wouldn't have anything to moan about.

[jno]

looks like Rupert Murdoch won't be there either, as he has a board meeting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/rupert-murdoch-margaret-thatcher-funeral

Oddly, the word "snub" does not appear in this report.

[chaptazbru]

Wouldn't go to her funeral if I was paid £1m - oh wait a minute though ......

[sir.prize]

Just because someone is otherwise engaged on Wednesday, is being regarded as a snub. For goodness sake - it's just a funeral for an old woman.

[ttfn]

We both know that is an understatement, sir.prize.

Khandro's answer sums it up for me.

[Peter Pedant]

I think Neil should break out in Ding Dong the witch is dead and dance on a few graves at his FIRST funeral

and in that way people would know that he had another one to go to.

oh and he cd 'moon' the coffin as it goes past
and someone cd viddy it
and post it on the internet with suitable headline like

'look at this load of socialist s++t ! '

[craft1948]

Is his daughter-in-law, the PM of Denmark going?

[SpikeyBush]

For the first time in my life I feel sorry for Neil Kinnock. Seems in the eyes of the Maily Dail he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

Prior engagements stand. How would that family feel about being snubbed in order for him to attend Baroness T's send-off instead?