Heseltine there, jockeying for position to chuck the first bit of soil on the coffin

[Classic Jorge]

You do get the feeling that Cameron is loving this now, he's looking even more buffed and shiny than usual with his big, smooth red face taking on an almost regal lustre.

[Berni]

about this stuff and become interesting again?

[Monty91]

at her funeral? Really?

[Luis Anaconda]

I think I have ever seen. I'm wearing black

[Classic Jorge]

Heseltine is, in many ways, the vanden plas boris johnson. More of a maverick, more successful, better hair.

Hezza :love:

[Berni]

generally behaving like children are the same sort who'll tell you in the next breath that they're sick of the childish, knockabout Pantomime/Punch and Judy nature of British politics. :rolleyes:

[Classic Jorge]

Given it's publicly funded people are well within their right to protest, I wouldve thought

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

[Luis Anaconda]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/9999373/Christopher -Martin-Jenkins-memorial-attended-by-six-England-captains.ht ml (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/9999373/Christopher-Martin-Jenkins-memorial-attended-by-six-England-captains.html)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

The time for protesting and/or celebrating was when the lady was in power.

Not when she is in heaven.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Not that I disagree, it's just a bit 'world turned upside down', really. http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Classic Jorge]

of course it's silly, have you seen the people they are interviewing? Imbeciles of all colours

[Luis Anaconda]

Jesus wept

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Bankers are entitled to vast bonuses for being less than stellar at their jobs. Does that mean, in your opinion, that they ought to get those bonuses? :rubchin:

[Brentwood]

Most of the money will have gone towards the over time for extra old bill needed to stop the scallywags from causing trouble.

Apart from that, I bet it hasn't cost much aside from the usual funeral costs

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I'm a good Catholic boy at heart.

[Monty91]

is outweighed by the right of a family to be able to grieve their mother at her funeral without having people shouting abuse.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

There was a bomb in America the other day and I didn't find out until the next morning.

*******s to current affairs.

[Classic Jorge]

and security from people trying to blow something up.

[Monty91]

[Classic Jorge]

funeral

[Brentwood]

They'll have a few helicopters in the air and include the sunk cost for them in their cost estimates as well. They will have been paid for regardless of whether they were in the air or not

[Monty91]

Let's not pretend the protesters are there simply because they object to a state-funded funeral. They are there to celebrate her death.

[Classic Jorge]

You believing in rights, monty talking about public decency.

Has everyone swapped handles?

[Paul Davis' Left Hook]

ble to protest against that imo

[Mc Gooner]

try to use an event like this as cover when it is, at most (and I think that's stretching it in this case) about the former.

Time and a place for spleen venting and her funeral is neither imo.

[Classic Jorge]

Do I think it's right for people to protest at her funeral? Of course not, it's crass.

Do I think it's right for people to celebrate her death? Probably not but the fact remains that she was so divisive a figure who did so much damage to people that it's inevitable.

[Classic Jorge]

The feeling against her, and also the potential terrorist threat, hasnt greatly changed in that time.

[Stroller]

Can't see any private enterprise getting much, if anything. And rightly so.

[Berni]

shouting abuse at sick people, though.

[PSRB]

[Berni]

Mumbo-jumbo, m. Mumbo-jumbo.

[Hillary]

[Classic Jorge]

"appalling NHS"?

[Berni]

separate those feelings from the plight of individuals having a hard time. This is a distinction apparently lost on those who feel the need to shout abuse at a funeral.

[Monty91]

Sorry

[Classic Jorge]

Sweet jesus

[Stroller]

.. no doubt a a big contributor to the public purse.

[Hillary]

I'm sort of with Jorge here - it's fairly crass but not in the least surprising.

I can't get excited one way or the other about this. It has all the impact of the Diana funeral for me - glad when it's all over and we can get back to some sort of normality.

[Berni]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

But the NHS can hardly claim credit for that, can they?

[Hillary]

[Classic Jorge]

[PSRB]

[Berni]

She's beyond all that. It's her relatives trying to mourn her who are having to listen to these morons.

[Red N White Army]

[Berni]

And it only takes a brief glance at our mortality rates compared to many other first-world nations to show that they don't do that as well as they ought to.

[Monty91]

when the latter is increasingly based on neuroscience.

[Peter]

Poor little darlings.

[Classic Jorge]

wdtnhsimo

[Classic Jorge]

[Peter]

f**king typical

[modd]

whatever your views she still had kids and grandkids who deserve to rest their mum/grandmother in peace.

[redgunamo]

[Dorset Gooner]

[Brentwood]

[Peter]

I would happily leave them alone for one day. I just dont want to admit it on here because it will look like i am being soft on thatcher :-)