chrisp65 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 What do people want from the funeral? 01) A quiet and respectful ceremony? 02) Pomp piped around the world with soldiers and St Paul's and central London as trimmings? 03) A peaceful protest to show there were two sides? 04) A noisey disrespectful protest to make sure the world shows that there were two sides? Well, in that 2 has already been selected I guess we'll also get a bit of either 3 or 4 as well. For me personally, I don't want to see people injured or people's working lives and livelihoods disrupted by violenece. I don't think we'll get violence, I think the police will be all over it and keep anything untoward away from the international cameras. That then probably leaves us with pictures of a few dozen trendy lefty types holding up socialist worker on a square in Brixton. Where is the union organisation that could have got a few thousand people to stand quietly along the route, with their backs to the celebrations? Perhaps super Ed will actually grow a pair and wear a duffle coat and say something challenging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Whatever people think, I hope there won't be a protest at the funeral, though I expect there will be. I'm all for buying 'ding dong the witch is dead', and other sorts of stuff, but protesting at someone's funeral is way beyond the line, for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 The funeral should be a quiet private affair, not a **** parade through London. Yes I hope the protest affects the funeral , it's a mad decision to do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drat01 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 We have had to cancel a meeting planned for ages because of the charade of this Tory homage to the witch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 What do people want from the funeral? Good natured chaos. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 It is kinda ironic how the papers have stopped printing bile about "people living on benefits" for the last few days only to replace it with tributes and rewritings of history about the PM who did so much to turn it into an involuntary lifestyle choice for the masses. That many people had to survive on benefits because of her policies (the figures were constantly being massaged downwards too) that sections of society (it does exist) came to understand that as the norm. Among the people "living on benefits" are the private landlords in whose pockets housing benefit actually ends up. The popular press would have us believe that claimants get this income, but they are just the channel for it, on its way to the landlord. And - oh, look! A quarter of Tory MPs are private landords! Making policies which weaken security of tenure, which deregulate rents, and which cut the stock of social housing, meaning that more people are forced into the private rented sector. It's the most flagrant conflict of interest you can imagine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 (edited) Whatever people think, I hope there won't be a protest at the funeral, though I expect there will be. I think your right but it could have been avoided by having a much more private affair rather than rubbing the noses in it of people who detested her and using our money to do it. The Tories would be quite happy for there to be protests and a bit of violence as they would then try to make political gain out of it. For that reason I'd rather it went off trouble free. In all fairness the sooner this absolute farce and waste of tax payers money is over and we can get back to focusing on the destruction this current Tory mob are causing, and not the past one, the better. Edited April 14, 2013 by markavfc40 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I wonder if the Real IRA will try and make a statement on the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutherland Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 (edited) What do people want from the funeral? 01) A quiet and respectful ceremony? 02) Pomp piped around the world with soldiers and St Paul's and central London as trimmings? 03) A peaceful protest to show there were two sides? 04) A noisey disrespectful protest to make sure the world shows that there were two sides? Well, in that 2 has already been selected I guess we'll also get a bit of either 3 or 4 as well. For me personally, I don't want to see people injured or people's working lives and livelihoods disrupted by violenece. I don't think we'll get violence, I think the police will be all over it and keep anything untoward away from the international cameras. That then probably leaves us with pictures of a few dozen trendy lefty types holding up socialist worker on a square in Brixton. Where is the union organisation that could have got a few thousand people to stand quietly along the route, with their backs to the celebrations? Perhaps super Ed will actually grow a pair and wear a duffle coat and say something challenging. 05) A day off work with pay. Edited April 14, 2013 by sutherland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatAboutTheFinish Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Does anyone know what kind of numbers they are expecting to be on the streets (either in support or in protest) fo this event? Surely most people will be in work at 11 on a Wednesday morning? Anyone here using their holiday entitlement to go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drat01 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 :-) - so those "lefty" BBC'ers have said Sales of Ding Dong! - from the 1939 musical film the Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland - have soared since her death. The BBC has defended its decision not to play the song in full on Radio 1's Official Chart Show, saying it had had to take the feelings of her grieving family into account. It will play a five-second clip of the song in a news item if the song charts. However, it has said I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher will be played if it is a high entry because there are "no editorial reasons not to". Hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 **** shameful. **** off beeb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 The funny thing is, I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher was meant sarcastically but these deluded Tories seem oblivious to that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 (edited) So now they want a Maggie library and Maggie museum. Maybe it will have a nice Maggie statue for the Thatcherites to get on their knees and grovel at Maybe it will even have a giant Maggie arse to shove their heads up. Edited April 14, 2013 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 The funny thing is, I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher was meant sarcastically but these deluded Tories seem oblivious to that. Strange how that happens sometimes. Depeche Mode and Springsteen must scratch their heads, then look at the royalty payments and shrug their shoulders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I'm at Heathrow on Weds am May pop into town see what's going down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Does anyone know what kind of numbers they are expecting to be on the streets (either in support or in protest) fo this event? Surely most people will be in work at 11 on a Wednesday morning? Anyone here using their holiday entitlement to go? Don't know about numbers, but it looks like plenty of overtime for very large numbers of police and involvement of all sorts of bits of the armed forces. Here. Leading the public order operation is Met Commander Christine Jones, who yesterday said there was no “specific threat” from terrorists but officers would prevent any “criminality” from protesters... Crack SAS and SBS troops will be on stand by while covert snipers will be deployed on rooftops. Undercover officers will be immersed in the crowd and uniformed officers and sniffer dogs will line the route. Helicopter crews will carry out surveillance from the air. Riot police will also be on standby. So this is how they police an absence of terrorist threats? Rooftop snipers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 (edited) By all means hate what she stood for, buy the silly little song and have your parties in Trafalgar Square if that's what gets you off. But protesting an actual funeral ceremony? You'd need to be a special kind of word removed to do that. So this is how they police an absence of terrorist threats? Rooftop snipers? "No specific threat" is not the same as an "absence of terrorist threats". Putting on a large ceremonial event in London is always a potential target and a proportional security operation is to be expected. Edited April 14, 2013 by Awol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Rooftop snipers ? Hang on, are we really living in a "free" country here ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 (edited) I'm at Heathrow on Weds am May pop into town see what's going down You've got three days to procure a large comedy inflatable of outstanding quality. Any VTers with their own zoo? Big cat poo makes horses run away. Edited April 14, 2013 by Xann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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