So are we getting a day off from work for Thatcher's State Funeral

[The Tony]

:nod:

[Peter]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[The Tony]

[HomerJ]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

industry she was not.

[Luis Anaconda]

there is a difference


Margaret Thatcher is to have the same funeral status as the Queen Mother and Diana, Princess of Wales, Downing Street announced. They had ceremonial funerals, which have many of the trappings of a state event.
The last Prime Minister to be accorded the accolade of a full state funeral was Winston Churchill, and there has been some agonising among the authorities about whether Baroness Thatcher should receive the same honour.