Should Margaret Thatcher be entitled to receive a State Funeral when she dies?

Answer 1

YEAH!! The country was in a better state when it was run by a woman..lol

I have selective memory loss when it comes to her failures!! lol

She was the 1st female prime-minister...so rock on Maggie!!

Answer 2

A number of PMs have had state funerals; Churchill was the most recent but others like Gladstone, Pitt and Palmerston also received them. The only difference is the coffin is pulled by sailors, not horses.

She solved a lot of problems this country faced - those who hate her forget how bad things were in the 1970s, and how impossible these problems seemed. A lot of people were hurt along the way, but Britain was better off in 1990 than 1979, and few PMs had her longevity.

So yes, she has probably earned it, as long as it doesn't set a precedent and supporters of more non-royals don't start angling for it.

Answer 3

Margaret Thatcher was NOT head of state, that is the queen.

She is a mad psychopath who did some harsh but necassary things. She is a self proclaimed friend of the evil Chilean dictator Pinochet.

Prime ministers do not normally get a state funeral, Churchill being a worthy exception as he stood out against the Nazis when many were ready to negotiate surrender.

Answer 4

As long as State Funerals are customary, yes. She was Head of the state.
The States Funeral has little to do with the person and the persons merits but very much with the repesentation of the idea of state. The Funeral is a demonstration of institutional power. It demonstrates that individual death cannot affect the continuing of institutionalized collectivity.
There are still other questions left, e.g. : how much should be spent fur such a funeral, how much attention must be claimed for and paid to it? Is pomp around such funeral still a form fitting nowadays notions of a modern society?
The instant answers to these conditions for the idea of a State Funeral have to be given individually to each oneself. The collective answer has to be discussed and found in slow and lasting political and cultural processes.

Answer 5

After the service to her country, saving us after Labour nearly bankrupted the country through pouring money down the drain in the 60s and early 70s, yes she should.

It is just a shame that the British publc have such short memories that we will soon need someone with the same talents to rescue the country after Gordon Brown has repeated the mistakes that kept labour out of power for a generation.

Answer 6

Absolutely, Definitely NOT. As she based all of her agenda upon the forces of capitalism - then so her funeral should. As in life.

If she is bestowed such an entitlement, then I hope that there will be an almighty public objection.

Answer 7

I don't like the woman but I think that her place in history would entitle her to something approaching a state funeral.

Answer 8

Why shouldn't she? I don't know what the English protocol is, but she was a member, and respected one (whether you agreed with her politics or not) of the government. If having a State funeral is permitted, I see no reason why she shouldn't have one

Answer 9

I think she should have a state funeral before she dies for the damage she did to the mining industry

Answer 10

From what I hear from British friends, her body should be burnt and left to the dogs in the street.

This is the woman who thought Nelson Mandela was a terrorist and the Aparthied system in S. Africa is a neccesity. I would agree with my British friends.