So Metro, will you celebrate the funeral of Thatcher?

Can we really put Thatcher alongside the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot ?
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no, that would be ridiculous, but it is people's right to celebrate her death, thats the benefit from living in a for want of a better term 'free country' but i do find it frankly pathetic that a lot of the protesters wer'nt even alive during her reign as PM

So Metro, will you celebrate the funeral of Thatcher?
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I think the word 'celebrate' is being banded about an awful lot.

I don't think i'd ever celebrate someones funeral - even tyrants. I'd just be relieved that they were gone.

Maybe that's the argument that faces those who have in fact celebrated

The right thing to do would have been to avoid/ignore any mourning\tributes to her. At the end of the day she's left a family behind and probably young grandkids/great grandkids, who don't deserve to see a loved one abused in that manner.

Hypocrisy, the country reeks of it.

Mex Rave ... Too true...Let's go burn a car..well just for fun! Got nothing else to protest about do we?

what are you views on celebrating a death ? Can we really put Thatcher alongside the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot ?

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erm no

To be honest a lot of what Thatcher did was before my time so to me I dont have any real feelings towards her death.

im sure she upset a lot of people, but at some point most people in power will.

I was watching the news the other day and they were showing a group who had gathered in trafalger square.

there was some Vicky pollard lookalike in a white tracksuit top with make up on that looked like it had been applied in the dark.

the reporter mentioned the fact she wouldnt have been alive and her response was along the lines of

"yeah but like i heard things, and i thought i'd come down and show support yeah but."

most of the people celebrating her death are like sheep who werent even around when she was PM.

if people didnt like her then fine thats their perogative, but lets not forget that she still had a family that will be grieving regardless of what people thought.

let them grieve in peace.

People can celebrate the death of anyone they want, for Thatcher it is justifiable and where I live now a lot of people have.

thats the benefit from living in a for want of a better term 'free country'
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I concur with that. If that's the case, why the criticism of them. Perhaps we are only free in the sense that it's not an arrestbale offence but it is frowned upon

People can celebrate the death of anyone they want, for Thatcher it is justifiable and where I live now a lot of people have.

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why is it justifiable??

not digging, but like i say, most of it was when i was a nipper, so just curious.

You're never free from criticism in a free country.

The right thing to do would have been to avoid/ignore any mourning\tributes to her. At the end of the day she's left a family behind and probably young grandkids/great grandkids, who don't deserve to see a loved one abused in that manner.
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If that's the case, why the criticism of them.
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well again that is the benefit of being 'free' i would criticise those who have protested and caused damage in the name of celebrating her death, but if they want to crack open a bottle at home with family then fair enough, she was before my time, but i do know that she wasnt all bad and did some good for the country, my parents have told me about the winter of discontent with rubbish piled high on the streets and living in your home by candle light because all the workers had gone out on strike and the right to buy scheme which helped a lot of people own their own homes, so i refuse to believe that she was some sort of monster who only did evil

If you want to celebrate the death of a person, then surely the place to do it is in the privacy of your own home. Surely there is something wrong with publicly doing it in the streets?

I echo Dunc's thoughts to be honest. What she did in power hasn't 'directly' affected me. I don't know enough about what she did from a completely unbias viewpoint (which generally don't exist with regards to Maggie'. My dad's opinion is that she did a lot of good and saved the country. Whereas other members of my family, and others I know, claim that she was a 'tyrant'.

Simply, if you weren't around, or effected by what she did, you really don't have a basis for such a flawed opinion. There is no one way to know whether she was right, or wrong, unless you were alive and politically active during her time.

Celebrating someone's death is disrespectful, especially if you're only doing it based on some half ar sed opinion you put together because of your parents/10 minutes Googling it. Least of all, have some decency, keep it in your own house, away from the public and away from the grieving family.

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There is no one way to know whether she was right, or wrong, unless you were alive and politically active during her time.


Even then, you can only guess at whether it was the right thing to do.

I think what this whole issue has shown is that far too many people think their political ideology is the only valid one.

Whatever you say about Thatcher, she was following a political ideology upon which she'd been elected.

To suggest that there was some sort of agenda to kill people or to make people poor is, in my view, ridiculous.

When it boils down to it, people have the right to say what they like about Thatcher's death. But I have zero respect for anyone that does things like popping champagne and arranging a party, because the leader of a political party that had a different ideology to yourself is dead.

people also seem to forget that during the seventies schools were on three day weeks because energy companies were refusing to supply enough energy to schools and were basically trying to dictate to the country.

thatcher basically said ok, feck you, you do things my way.

had they not been a set of <surfers> in the first place, maybe thatcher wouldnt have taken the action she did.

The counter argument to Margaret Thatchers family is - what about the family members of those who suffered/died under her reign ?

I wouldn't call Thatcher a sympathetic person. Would you ?

She did what she thought was best for the country. Some people think she did a good job, others don't. People are entitle to celebrate her death, though I think doing so says a lot more about them than her. From what I've seen, the majority of those celebrating are 18 yr old mop haired politics students who want to show how 'cool and communist' they are despite not being alive when she was PM. Pathetic. I won't mourn her, but I respect what she did and I don't think the world is a better place without her. Too few people these days are willing to stand up for what they believe in, but not her.

my dad says she perhaps tried to change things too quickly with the miners, and if there had been a bit more give and take from both sides it may have ended better

The counter argument to Margaret Thatchers family is - what about the family members of those who suffered/died under her reign ?

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such as who??

"what about the family members of those who suffered/died under her reign"

I don't remember Thatcher organising a street party to celebrate someone's death, do you?

the question is, what would our country be like now if she wasn't in power?

who knows greg

That is exactly it. She had her policies, she knew what she wanted, and she did it. This country would be a far better place if we had more politicians like her, as opposed to the Camerons and Cleggs of this world. Whether she was right, or wrong in the way she went about things, the country was better off for it.