Reply to: Who decided on the (in all but name) State Funeral for Lady Thatcher?

[ZARDOZ]

There is an irony in her having a State funeral.

[vetran]

we could buy two weeks of the BBC world service, not really much of a contest is it?

[hyperD]

Let's see the Thatcher apologists argue against some of this.

They should just wrap her in chains and chuck her in the sea.

What a delightfully partisan bien pensant you are. I wonder whether you will share the same sentiments with Brown or Blair.

BIDI

[d000hg]

Let's see the Thatcher apologists argue against some of this.

They should just wrap her in chains and chuck her in the sea.

Margaret Thatcher's funeral: 23 things you could pay for with £10m | News | guardian.co.uk

Is it things like baby incubators and malaria nets?

WGAS.

[SandyD]

Wasn't Charles Darwin ordered to have a state funeral and burial at Westminster Abbey against his wishes? I believe he waned to be buried somewhere else, but after his death it was decided/ or it was ordered that he should be buried at Westminster Abbey?

Not sure if this story is true...

Anyway what I mean is perhaps Maggie didn't have a choice to decline the offer of a state funeral?

[KentPhilip]

George Galloway has started banging on about why Prime Minister's questions should not be suspended tomorrow.

BBC iPlayer - Watch Live - BBC Parliament

What an idiot..

[Alf W]

Let's see the Thatcher apologists argue against some of this.

They should just wrap her in chains and chuck her in the sea.

Margaret Thatcher's funeral: 23 things you could pay for with £10m | News | guardian.co.uk

[quackhandle]

I did hear on 5Live last week that it's almost a state funeral possibly due to the Queen and Phil the Greek attending, who have not attended a PM funeral since Churchill.

Apparently when MT was in power she and HM didn't get on that well, but due to MT's declining health in last 10 or so years (same age as HM?) she looked out for her at events/functions and they became quite pally.

qh

[Sysman]

If it was Michael Foot would he be Lying In A State?

Duffle coat, surely.

[stek]

Who decided on the (in all but name) State Funeral for Lady Thatcher?

If it was Michael Foot would he be Lying In A State?

[lilelvis2000]

So Tony Blair will get a military funeral? He deserves it much more surely: Thatcher's war only lasted a few months, whereas some of the wars Blair started are still going.

Maybe that's why he got us in this mess.

Hopefully Blair will die in violent way leaving nothing to bury.

[DodgyAgent]

I don't see what the problem is really, it will be a massive spectacle and a good advert for London and the country. She would have known that.

She was also held in great respect by leaders from around the world whether they agreed with her or not. What they would think of the UK for not honouring her would reflect poorly on the UK.

[minestrone]

I don't see what the problem is really, it will be a massive spectacle and a good advert for London and the country. She would have known that.

[Sysman]

Can we have it next week?

He doesn't need to be dead, just in a coffin with a screwed down lid.

P.S. If it's an Iron Coffin With Spikes On The Inside, so much the betterer.

John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 1808), the chap who built the bridge at Ironbridge had his coffin made of cast iron.

He presumably Rusted In Place.

[Goatfell]

So Tony Blair will get a military funeral? He deserves it much more surely: Thatcher's war only lasted a few months, whereas some of the wars Blair started are still going.

Nah, it's only if you actually won a victory.

OTOH, I could be magnanimous and let him have a military funeral, as long as it's now - before any of his wars go down as a loss.