– So the old heap of iron has rusted and finally snuffed it.
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, 87, was would you believe living at The Ritz when she suffered a stroke Monday.
Shockingly, plans are in hand by the British Establishment to give her a ceremonial sendoff.
What on earth are they thinking?
Her ceremonial sendoff will rank equally to the pomp and glory given at Princess Diana and the Queen Mothers funerals and will take place at St. Pauls Cathedral in London.
Thatcher does not deserve such aggrandizement. She may have had tremendous power and influence during her term as prime minister, but there again, so did Hitler and Stalin.
Looking back, this woman denounced Nelson Mandela as a terrorist and defended the Chilean fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet. Tell that to the thousands of Chileans tortured and killed during his regime.
To be clear, marginally downgrading the funeral title to ceremonial is laughable. Probably some chinless wonders idea from the Establishment to appease the vast majority of the population of the British Isles who just despise Maggie Thatcher.
State funerals are reserved for very special people people like monarchs, warriors and brilliant achievers like Darwin or Churchill. She doesnt rank at all. What is even more galling is that the British public has to shell out millions of pounds for this ceremonial rubbish. This for the woman or iron who just about privatized everything?
Apparently, she has asked that her body not be put on display because she doesnt want the same public outpouring of grief that accompanied Winston Churchills funeral. I think its because she was afraid of lying in state with endless lines of people queuing up to spit on her.
True, she had some good qualities. She was the devoted wife, and a mother of two. I guess you could say she was patriotic but only the kind of patriotism that stretches as far as the Scotland/England border.
She imposed her poll tax theories on the Scottish nation for a year before introducing the community charge to England whereupon the English finally woke up and proceeded to riot in great force.
She decimated the Scottish steel industry, inspiring the 1980s musical hit of the proudly Scottish duo The Proclaimers. Letter from America listed the industrial icons that had closed because of Thatchers policies: Bathgate no more/Linwood no more/Methil no more…
She laid to rest the coal industry in Scotland and set in motion the privatization of the British rail system.
Thatcher will be despised for decades to come for the mass unemployment she caused.
She will be remembered for being Britains first female prime minister, but certainly does not deserve a ceremonial funeral.
No fond farewells from us north of the border.
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