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Mrs Thatcher dies ( (born 13 October 1925 – died 8 April 2013) twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st…
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I'm not going to say about how people should or shouldn't behave until it happens and they do, or don't... that's all...
I hope there's no silliness from both sides. I.e. no crass postings of joy, and no calls for "full state funeral", etc. A state funeral would certainly become the focus for disruption by the hard left. I hope the Tory right can see that and avoid it to preserve her dignity.
Please God let one and all maintain dignity over the coming weeks.
UKIP boost for the May elections?
I said to OGH when I broke this news to him, it might be wise to close the internet for a month.
A truly great woman who never for one minute deserved the vitriol that was (and will now be) heaped upon her.
RIP.
RT @GazTheJourno: The National Union of Students RT @JoshDixonTweets: Delegates at #nusnc13 just applauded the news of Thatchers death. Shameful.
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2819/Most-capablemost-likeable-Prime-Minister.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/08/miliband-clegg-local-elections-cameron-madrid?commentpage=3
Guardian mods not lifting a finger, even for "I hope that Old C-nt rots in the bowels of hell !". Nice.
From a political betting point of view, her death shouldn't have many direct effects - hardly anyone is likely to change or gain an opnion they didn't have before - but it could have an indirect impact if someone senior in one or other of the parties says or does something particularly tasteless or stupid.
I really can't remember her time in office, to be honest. It seems hard to imagine a PM who actually had strong convictions.
We need you now as much as we did in 1979.
Remembering that and remembering some of the less savoury comments when Michael Foot died Mike's clear statement of fact that she was Britain’s first woman PM seems apt.
"Downing Street said Lady Thatcher would be accorded the same status of funeral as the Queen Mother and Princess Diana, but will not lie in state, in accordance with her own wishes."
Of course she should have the same status of funeral. Churchill got one, so should Maggie.
As for the Manchester derby - a minute's applause should cover all bases?
"I shall never forget and I'll never forgive"
Her own words on those Tories who threw her out.
And a perfect epitaph in my opinion.
Head and shoulders above the pygmies who removed her into office.
Dr. Parma, indeed. The problem with increasing life expectancy is that we get decades more in a frail state, not as a fit twentysomething.
Of course I understand that's a requisite if one thinks one needs vast mounts of sanctimonious outrage to mourn appropriately.
"Great on foreign policy"
Are we including her appeasement and encouragement of apartheid?
Would Ed condemn such behaviour?
Personally I loathed what she did to the proud mining communities, but Scargill was equally to blame. She was certainly a politician of substance though, a woman of great conviction. The pygmies we have now pale into significance by comparison.
RIP.
Not a time for celebration, but a time to remember the destruction the wretched woman unleashed on millions.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams will hold a news conference at 3pm in Belfast to discuss the death of Margaret Thatcher.
I was going to link to the guido page with Ed next to the chap with the Thatcher-dancing-on-graves t-shirt, but he's taken his whole site down and put up a picture and RIP message.
RIP.
But I am grateful that my Twitter feed isn't polluted by too much nastiness. Useful to prune but not having to do much as most people are behaving.
Guess RSA ticked all the right boxes: white, Christian, right wing. Had they been black, Muslim, left wing no one would have cared. Guess RSA ticked all the boxes for those with white guilt.
Happily Maggie had no such delusions, though she did sell out the Rhodies.
She changed the political weather not just for her time but for after she'd gone. A political giant, whatever your views.
Good grief - a Matlock sighting!
Sorry it took such a sad event to lure you out, AHM, but now that you have seen a bit of the sunlight again, perhaps you can grace us with your presence more regularly?
As Davina would say, "Let's have a look at your best bits." To start with "No sanctions - Nelson Mandela is a terrorist."
Fairly adroitly done.
There's a little bit of mythmaking there. The sort of blue-print for how to do it was laid down in Heath's time (but he couldn't carry it through) and she started her career being embarrassingly defeated by unions, and ended it with ministers being frustrated by her being more cautious holding them back from taking on the docker's union etc.
Of course between that here employment reforms (tying the Trade Union fighting along with the shift away from full employment etc) were probably the biggest changes she made.
Greatest PM of my life time.