h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There's a lot of antipathy about Thatcher's death. Yes, I didn't like her, like a lot of people. However it's still someone has died and there is a grieving family and people that did like her.

>>I predict many small people will now make a lot of noise<<

Which is exactly what she wanted. She wanted to be hated by a large part of the population. If you're going to change things so fundamentally, you're going to engender hatred for generations.

Of course I can sympathise with anyone who has lost a family member and I never wished death upon her, she was old, in poor health it was just one of those inevitable things that was going to happen
I personally feel nothing though, not happy or sad, I don't think that makes me a bad person

'Downing Street said Lady Thatcher would be accorded the same status of funeral as the Queen Mother and Princess Diana'

I am not a royalist, but this is not apropriate in my opinion. It calls for a judgement of worth which is pretty subjective.

Smacks of a deal done behind closed doors. So is the trade off the same treatment for Blair?

PP.

Does that mean a day off?

Actually when I say I feel nothing, that is true is terms of happy or sad

If I am brutally honest, Thatcher stirs some very strong emotions in me. I can't think of the right, it is kind of like relief, not that I am relieved she is dead, that maybe I can now let it go

right word

Catharsis maybe? Something major that's been on the cards for a long time has finally happened.

>I predict many small people will now make a lot of noise <

Are were referring to proper little people from a certain film...?

yes probably that is a better word, maybe those old wounds will properly heal, I don't know

unfortunately the Condems are inflicting a shedload of news ones and

I'll be fascinated to see where they plan on burying the venomous old bat. I've long considered inconceivable that it would be anywhere accessible to the public. Somewhere like Princess Di's grave, on an island in a lake on private property seems to me to be the only realistic place it could be. The alternative - news footage of thousands of people queueing to spit (or do worse) on it - is unlikely to be allowed to happen.

Apparently Cher has had to confirm she's still alive as people thought the Twitter tag #nowthatchersdead was about her.

Cher! Of all people! The gal who asked if you
"believe in life after love".

http://youtu.be/vHr22Lb7ZxA


~jwf~

On a par with #susanalbumparty. (Which I still think was made up).

PP.

"Of course I can sympathise with anyone who has lost a family member and I never wished death upon her, she was old, in poor health it was just one of those inevitable things that was going to happen
I personally feel nothing though, not happy or sad, I don't think that makes me a bad person"

I agree wholeheartedly with this Peanut. Well said. I imagine the internet - Twitter, Facebook and many forums are now buzzing with this news and everyone's opinion on Thatcher and her death.

God knows what the funeral will entail.

Maggie Maggie Maggie.

The unions did need checking, but she went way too far and ended up impairing british energy and industry. She also sold off British and council assets, she experimented with monetary policy early days (a mistake), and she spent the North Sea Oil and Gas revenues.

Ps she did the right thing over the Falkland Islands but many mistakes were made leading up to the Argentine invasion.

Every conflict stems from political failure surely? But we shouldn't let those failures and a desire to stick the boot into Thatcher detract from the fact that a fascist military dictatorship attempted to seize British territory by force.

Over in the US there was never much sentiment one way or the other about Thatcher. I suppose when George W. Bush dies it will be our turn to gripe. After all he nearly killed the world economy in the last six months that he ran the United States.