Lady Thatcher's Funeral

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23488443

£1.2m, or approx 2p each.

Bargain?

[tonyav]

No union ever got me a job, tambo.

[tonyav]

Although I have to say that I have always and that includes now been proud to be a union member.

[Answerprancer]

"I liked Maggie. At that time the country needed someone like her, The unions thought they ran the country and went on strike at the drop of a hat. They needed stopping and Maggie had the balls to take them on"

Hmm, didn't quite a lot of Germans think similarly around the late 1930s?

[Baldric]

Don't mention the War! ^ ^ ^ ^

[tonyav]

LOL.

[tonyav]

Happy days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdOCWUgwiWs

[Answerprancer]

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it, sorry - touch of shrapnel in the war ...Korean war! Prawn cocktail?

[tamborine]

union control of miners & industry was more controlling than the gov of the day. No country thrives with that

[Baldric]

No thanks Basil!
;-)

[ludwig]

// World beating manufacturing? What's that, the 3 day week, strikes, power cuts and a propensity for building broccoli cars? //

Exactly Chill. You failed to detect the irony of my comment.

[ToraToraTora]

@ mikey, MrsT did not cause high unemployment the unions did that in the preceeding years by making it impossible to fire anyone. The rise came when the shackles where removed. They were not real jobs. Still carry on believig your communist drivel.

[ToraToraTora]

Ludwig: "'world beating' manufacturing industry we had in 1978. " - would that be the one that had the most amount of strike days ever recorded? I'm surprised they made anything at all.

[ToraToraTora]

irony too good ludwig!

[LazyGun]

Even mention of the costs of Thatchers funeral leads to tit for tat postings fighting the ideological political battles of the past - a graphic example of how divisive a character she was - which goes to prove the point that she should not have been afforded what amounted to a state funeral in all but name, regardless of the cost, at the taxpayers expense.