The funeral of Thatcher

[Richard]

I say let her go in peace - but you turn if you want to !!

[Derek Jempson]

Oooooh - tricky ground here! Like a lot of people, I admired her strength and resolve whilst disagreeing with most of her policies. Her funeral was bound to be contentious, no matter what form it took. In death she will be just as divisive as in life.

[Richard]

my socialist friends say Thatcher made everyone greedy but I don't think that was her main vice.
I think she genuinely wanted to make ordinary people (not the vested interests and "Old Boy" networks and landed gentry) "Believe in Better" and be able to buy their own council homes and have something to pass on to their children.
The fact that she destroyed uncompetitive State-Subsidised Industries, and left people to rot in areas where their were no alternative jobs available, was probably in part because of the equally pig-headed bosses in the increasingly militant Unions at the time - they must share some of the blame and vilification, in my opinion.

Scargill was a cocky little Communist and miscalculated the Miner's Strike by starting it in the Summertime and by wintertime French imports were able to supply the shortfall.

As for Thatcher, she was not a "Toff" by any stretch of the imagination, and resented people being able to get ahead in life just because of their priveledged background leading them into cushy jobs in the City, for example.