No state funeral for Margaret Thatcher

Click here to sign the petition to have the planned state funeral for arch tit-witch Thatcher stopped.

Note; this petition is only open to UK residents and certain British ex-pats.

Why not give her a state funeral?

Because she's not even close to being worthy of one.

In the UK, state funerals (that are not for the sovereign or the sovereign's consort) are historically reserved for people who are considered as national heroes or who were a source of great national pride. In the past 500 years there have been fewer than ten. Amongst those, there are great figures such as Lord Nelson, Charles Darwin and Winston Churchill... Margaret Thatcher has no place sharing a roll of honour with such notable and worthy Britons

Thatcher's greatest political influences were Ronald Reagan, which was bad enough, but she also openly praised and emulated many of Pinochet's methods of government, including using the police force as a tool to violently suppress political dissent, and using the forced sale of social housing to create a class of property speculators in run down estates who would continue to vote for her.

She threw 6½ million Britons into the unemployment line and then shamelessly altered the figures by changing how the unemployed were counted so that only half were classed as jobless. She destroyed the heartland of British heavy industry in the North of England, Wales and Scotland, for no other reason than to impoverish and break up communities that were historically her political opposition in the ballot box.

The woman is often seen abroad as one of Britain's most memorable and loved leaders, but at home, she was (and still is) seen as one of the most divisive and justifiably maligned people in the realm.

The bitch deserves no state funeral, and if granted one, I sincerely hope that tens of thousands of protesters violently invade the procession, drag her putrid corpse from it's box, dismember it and piss on the goopy remains.

Unfortunately this petition won't make one jot of difference.

There was a thread running about the funeral at another forum I frequent and too much talk of Thatcher is bad for my general health, so I will simply borrow an image from that thread which sums up my feelings about her

Perhaps, but if enough sign it, then the PM can't say afterwards that he didn't see the inevitable protests coming.

WOW, even in death.

Signed.

I think she should have a state funeral! I think it's pathetic that people would even start a petition like this.

That's true but surely a much better protest would be thousands of ex-miners swarming Central London and rejoicing as the ridiculous 'State Funeral' took place?



Why do you think she should have a state funeral? You must have been about 10 while she was up to all her jiggery-pokery. What good do you think Maggie did for Britain?

What's age got to do with it? Just because I was young doesn't mean that I didn't know what was happening in my country or indeed that I've read and learned about the history of my country as I grew older. Yourself and most of the other old duffers on here have an opinion about the World Wars, and you lot were in your infancy while the first one was happening.


She was Britains first female Prime Minister. That in itself is something to celebrate. I also respect her backbone and commitment to changing the face of the country. Some economic mistakes were made (they are made with every PM, though) but Labour still use them quite openly. Or are you going to say that she's responsible for the current sad economic state?

This post has been edited by m15hun: Jul 30 2008, 11:27 AM

The changes she and her supporters made to Britain were the main reason I emigrated. @m15hun: with all due respect, you really have to be of middle age or older to remember fully the Britain she ruined. My kids grew up during her reign, and cannot know what a great country Britain can be to live in. And no, it's not rose-tinted glasses - just disappointment at the destruction of post-war British ideals.

"No such thing as society" ...pfft

torrenter, my parents were in their mid thirties at that time and our lives were not ruined. Everyone is so quick to criticise Thatcher but they knowingly look past the fact that she decided enough was enough and stopped heavily subsidising failing British industry, owing to the changes made we now have industries that make money and don't drain it from the state.

It's the same every time, people from the industrial centres of the country are the ones crying foul because their easy life was taken away.

I respect your opinion but I'm afraid I disagree entirely.

Actually... one of the main problems that we will face in the coming recession (yeah that's right bitches, it's a recession not a damn "credit crunch") is that we will be dependant on importing a lot of our fuel from abroad and therefore at the mercy of the international market. We have become to dependant on importing natural gas from places like Russia, while many of our coal burning power plants were replaced at the end of their natural lives by oil burning plants. By Thatcher. So she could exercise what has been called "class revenge" on the unions and especially the NUM for their part in the Heath administrations downfall.

As for the state funeral if I can quote Frankie Boyle:

"Just give everyone in Scotland a shovel... and we'll dig a hole so deep we can hand her over to Satan personally."

We've supplemented that revenue quite adequately by increasing our oil exploration industry. The current state of the economy is entirely down to 'New Labour'.

Why shouldn't a person producing wealth for Britain have an easy life? Do you think the yuppies deserve it more?