Margret Thatcher deserves a truly special send off with the dignity a true leader should get?

Question

Churchill was the best leader with Maggie a very close second. Would you agree that that she desrves our respect and best send off we can give her The Labourt Party would say no. what do you think ? and do you think Blair should attend the funeral anyway .. of course he should but knowing him he probably will not. (remember Tony what goes around comes around) Remember the lady has died and respectfull answers only please

UPDATE: I never said she was dead and regret any misunderstanding by those who did misread. This is what is called a debate on the news .. anyway thaks to those with RESPECTFULL answers .. those using MORON etc should look to other sites ..

Answer 1

She deserves a state funeral in line with what was given for Winston Churchill. She was not only the UK's first woman prime minister, but she got many off their arses and positively encouraged people to better themselves

Answer 2

No! Personal opinions do not a great leader make. Churchill deserved his state funeral as a war-time leader, certainly not as as a peacetime one, when he was fairly woefully inadequate. Thatcher on the other hand was the UK's most divisive Prime Minister of the 20th Cent. and as such in no way merits special consideration. While I am no fan of Tony Blair and unlike yourself don't claim to know him, I think he is statesman enough to attend her funeral, after all don't they have a mutual fan club?

Answer 3

I am sorry but you want to re-write history. If I could be bothered I would show you where, but I suspect you haven't read any biographies (not auto) of that dreadful witch of a woman.

Do a google on Thatcher.She was a colonialist of the worst kind. When Mandela went to London after his freedom for a thank you concert, she was the only world leader to be ignored. She was a racist, who thought the Apartheid system was a neccesity.

Her son Mark, now a convicted criminal in S. Africa, a worthless pile of insignificance, used his mother's name for his personal gain at every turn. Even his wife saw through his worthlessness and has divorced the criminal. Thatcher even forced a hereditary title on him. Pity the British people.

Only Carol Thatcher, an egalitarian, who by the way loathes her mother and she should know, has forged a way for herself in life. She is a splendid woman.
The deceased, Dennis Thatcher, was also a racist and this things cannot be hidden because people have misguided loyalty to a leader.
Here in the USA, we are not so servile and we criticise our leaders if they are of no good to the State. History, will be savage on Thatcher as your Conservative party are already demonstrating. Even they now cringe with embarrasment when her name is mentioned.

Answer 4

I feel much shame that I never assassinated her whilst she was busy destroying the manufacturing base of the UK, and turning us into a useless service economy, where everyone is someone elses' solicitor, accountant, management consultant, recruitment advisor, public relations officer, strategic planner, head-hunter, policy co-ordinator, etc., etc., and nobody actually digs some coal from the ground, and uses it to smelt the ore to make the steel to build the ship, the car, the washing machine... She didn't want us to get our hands dirty any more, but as Ted Heath said, we can't make a living taking in each others' washing. I'll remember her for massive unemployment, which sapped the country's wealth in unemployment benefits, two recessions rooted in unfeasibly high interest rates that cost thousands of decent hard-working people the roofs over their heads, education cuts that have led to the ignorant chav monsters that now roam our streets after dark, the privatisation of all our tax-payer-funded utilities that used to work and now don't, which liberated £1,280 BILLION and yet she still turned in a budget deficit! Coal fired power stations converted to gas, which is now too dear, oh dear, the loss of 270,000 beds in NHS hospitals, despite an ever-increasing population, a cynically- contrived war in the Falklands (where?) to ensure a wave of jingoistic patriotism to get her re-elected, at the cost of over £650BILLION, and 280 lives of British servicemen, which was totally unavoidable - just ask John Knott, former Defence Mininster, who resigned when he saw what she was doing. And the Conservatives were taking 11% more off me in National Insurance and Income Tax than Blair and Brown do.
So when she goes, I'll dance a jig, singing "Ding, Dong, The ***** Is Dead." And I can, because despite her efforts to stop what she called "illegal assembly" requiring a licence for a gathering of more than twelve citizens at a time, we STILL have freedom of speech and expression in this country.
And I'd love to attend her funeral - if you give the people what they want, they will come a' runnin'.

Answer 5

Poll tax? In Scotland we got this a FULL YEAR before the rest of the UK.
In Scotland the Conservatives are very much a minority party.
The docile little englanders will return to the bosom of the Tories and suffer the consequences.
So what if Britain had a woman PM?

She dismantled the unions, began privatising major industries and endeared herself to very few people whom she happened to make rich.
If you are under twenty years of age, you know nothing about Britain before Thatcher and what happened during her reign.
But then, if you're under twenty, you know nothing anyway.

Answer 6

Bit of a mixed bag, Thatcher. She was one of the quickest world leaders to see the dangers of climate change, for example, but she was also a supporter of General Pinochet. Up north we tend to remember her for the poll tax (like everyone else) and for closing coal mines.

Answer 7

Margret Thatcher done more damage to this country than Hitler & you think she deserves a truly special send off, where do you live the USA.

Answer 8

Chirchill surely was the best leader Britain will ever have.
However, I believe, that all past leaders should be equally respected & Margret Thatcher is no exception. All the Brits and even everybody should respect her, after all she remained the leader of a great country.

Answer 9

Milk Snatcher

Answer 10

She does deserve a state funeral. I also know that dear old Saggy Maggy and our queen like eachother, and that they will both be upset by this. Tony Blair is an arsehole, and if he is denying one of the greatest PMs, then he will be denied one to.Cos I say so.

Answer 11

No, she never cared about the poor and underprivileged people of Britain. Nor did she care about the hundreds of lives lost in Falklands. She preferred to go straight to war, when a diplomatic solution could almost certainly have been reached.