Is It Wrong to Still Hate Thatcher?

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3938

I can well imagine this sort of story at the end of every year until 2020:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... marks.html

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

Abernathy wrote:

Get your signatures on This Petition - to have Mags's state funeral privatised. It's surely what she would want.

Going back weeks but I signed it all the same.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:51 pm

David Cameron: Thatcher film 'made too soon'

Quote:

Asked about it on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cameron said: "It's a fantastic piece of acting by Meryl Streep, but you can't help wondering, why do we have to have this film right now.

"It is a film much more about ageing and elements of dementia rather than about an amazing prime minister.

"My sense was a great piece of acting, a staggering piece of acting, but a film I wish they could have made another day."

I bet you do, Dave. Bit of an untimely reminder, what?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16439209

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:56 pm

So basically rather than welcoming it as a portrayal of what can happen to even the most strong-willed of people if they're struck down with dementia, Dave wants to cover all that over and have her achievements trumpetted above all else. Just like Churchill before her...

Abernathy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:08 pm

Damn. Curiousity is getting the better of me. I'm going to have to go see it.

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

I keep seeing the huge face of Chariman Streep-Thatcher peering down at me from the side of buses and it is a bit unsettling. Two reasons - she looks a lot like her and nothing like her simultaneously somehow and the paradox is a melon twister. Secondly, I feel like an ancient bogeyman has popped up in my life again and is following me.

So good adverts then, impossible to ignore.

Esqui · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:59 pm

As I was reading this thread, a trailer came up on the TV! But I agree about the bus adverts. This morning, I got up, opened the curtains in the lounge and was met with a giant Margaret Thatcher. I screamed and went back to bed.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7417

When I saw this I thought of you...

Fingal · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:08 pm

People are threatening to piss on Thatcher's grave. That disgusts me.

It'd mess up my dancing shoes.

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3938

Fingal wrote:

People are threatening to piss on Thatcher's grave. That disgusts me.

It'd mess up my dancing shoes.

You may be new but you soon got up to speed.

Fingal · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:11 am

davidjay wrote:

Fingal wrote:

People are threatening to piss on Thatcher's grave. That disgusts me.

It'd mess up my dancing shoes.

You may be new but you soon got up to speed.

Thanks.

I don't view this as a forum, I see it as more of a support group.

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3938

Fingal wrote:

davidjay wrote:

Fingal wrote:

People are threatening to piss on Thatcher's grave. That disgusts me.

It'd mess up my dancing shoes.

You may be new but you soon got up to speed.

Thanks.

I don't view this as a forum, I see it as more of a support group.

Good one.

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

Fingal wrote:

davidjay wrote:

Fingal wrote:

People are threatening to piss on Thatcher's grave. That disgusts me.

It'd mess up my dancing shoes.

You may be new but you soon got up to speed.

Thanks.

I don't view this as a forum, I see it as more of a support group.

a = 2(s - ut)/t2

spoonman · **Joined:** Tue May 11, 2010 2:27 pm **Posts:** 922

Fingal wrote:

People are threatening to piss on Thatcher's grave. That disgusts me.

It'd mess up my dancing shoes.

To be fair, by the time the last person has stopped urinating on her grave, she's going to be buried under a not unsubstantial man-made lake. On a serious note though, they are surely going to have to provide some round-the-clock security cover on that resting place for a few years at least.

JuanTwoThree · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:25 am

I thought we already had a rota for pissers, spitters and dancers.

The "wouldn'ts" are easy to cater for. They will just turn up and simply not do whatever it is they wouldn't do.

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