Does Margaret Thatcher deserve a state funeral ?

Milk was available to children in my primary school from nursery to Y2. The number of children that didn't drink the milk during my time was so few I could almost count them on my fingers.

I was pleased to be excused milk as it made me vomit, we never had it at secondary. I didn't realise under 8s still got it. In some areas, where Rickets has returned, they could still do with it. Yes, the smell was awful, but not as bad as the toilets.

Its setting a bad precedent. Just think how much it will cost us when Tony Blair passes away

She did stop milk when she was Education Sec. in Heath government but it was later reintroduced in some areas.  The school I went to was bursting at the seams because she supported the grammer school in refusing to take pupils that had not passed an eleven plus and so having an intake of 9 children for two years.  I know that is nothing to what she did later, but it caused problems for people. Ideology came first.

Arran said:

The Falklands war victory is the one and only reason Thatcher is having a state funeral. She doesn't exactly get one for privatising BT or the Poll Tax riots.

Strictly speaking she's not getting a 'state funeral' at all. Just something that looks a lot like a 'state funeral'.

[quote]She stole my milk.[/quote]

What is all this about the milk snatching? I had milk in primary school in the 1990s after Thatcher had gone from the House of Commons.

I was being facetious.

I was born in 1973, and clearly remember having milk in primary school.

I don't know if the policy was over turned by the time I was at primary, or I was just lucky enough to live in an area where they could to continue it regardless.

(from memory) Margaret Thatcher became an MP in 1959 and was a member of the Heath govt. of 1970-4. In 1970 (I think) she did stop free milk for children but I remember having it in 1972 in primary 1 but that was in Scotland. I don't know about elsewhere. Perhaps the outcry provoked a U-turn...apparently Heath was famous for them. I could've google all this but this is what I remember and what I've picked up in the news coverage.

The Falklands war victory is the one and only reason Thatcher is having a state funeral. She doesn't exactly get one for privatising BT or the Poll Tax riots.

Scorpion0x17 said:

She stole my milk.

What is all this about the milk snatching? I had milk in primary school in the 1990s after Thatcher had gone from the House of Commons.

cuts don't apply to fat cats. Theres always plenty of money for bankers' bonuses, big severance payments and pension payouts, junketting and foreign travel and lavish social life if you are the right kind of person.

Its no use squeezing the rich as there apparently aren't enough of them to make a difference. That's why cuts only apply to the masses.

Thus a despotic tyrant gets a £10m funeral event.

I'm too young to remember Margaret Thatcher, I was born in 1989.

But I don't understand how we can justify spending 10 million on her funeral - especially when there's all these cuts because apparenylu we can't afford them.

autismtwo said:

Does Margaret Thatcher deserve a state funeral ?

No.

She stole my milk.

As someone born in 1950 I have a perspective of life during, before and after the reign of Maggie. Two things she said were an affront to humanity. One was her regular use of the royal "we" - such as "we are a grandmother" as if she was the queen. The other was  allegedly hers though someone else's originally, " a few eggs will get broken" with regard to those who lost out over her policies. An awful lot of people had their lives wrecked - bit more than broken eggs.

We will have to live with the state funeral. Cannot really avoid it however we may feel.

I prefer to remember her as seen by Spitting Image - "I used to be Prime Minister you know...."

I was born in 1982 and totally resent her, mainly for the mass unemployment in my area and it's scarring effects.

I had a Thatcher death party (with myself+GF) with a bottle of the best Remy Martin I could find, three bottles of Newcastle summer ale, lots of Exploited being played (Maggie you ****), Pete Wylie song about her death and a few others. It was was spitefull and nasty, euphoric and jubilent.

My GF is older than me and can remember life before her.

My opinion is NO ONE deserves a state funeral. Waste of however many million pounds when we're at the mercy of our Fiscal Fuhrer: The Deficit Myth.