Well done London!

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As for Wilson. It's a pity his funeral wasn't staged in the conditions his government created in 1978! He'd still be waiting to be cremated as the workers were all on strike! Bodies were piling up in the same way the rubbish was in the streets.
Myth Buster one - only one place in the country where bodies were not being buried - Liverpool - the rest of the country funerals were taking place as usual.  Oh and I thought Sunny Jim was Prime Minister by then.  Still accuracy was never something that the Thatcherite apologists were good at, but a good old quote from the Daily Mail never goes a miss Stoop.

 He might have got done round about June I think.

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USB - the funeral arrangements were made by Blair and his cabinet when Mrs T showed signs of health problems in her 70's.

If true, and there is significant doubt that what was delivered was previously agreed, then shame on Blair and his cabinet.

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As for Wilson. It's a pity his funeral wasn't staged in the conditions his government created in 1978! He'd still be waiting to be cremated as the workers were all on strike! Bodies were piling up in the same way the rubbish was in the streets.

 He might have got done round about June I think.

Steady on old son, you don't want to be accused of making political attacks on someone whose death is mourned by his friends and family?

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A significant amount if the cost of the funeral was to police all the threats of protester riots.

Really and where did you get this story? Any way Lotty you should learn that there is a difference between a protest and a riot, the first is people's right in this country, and the second is something the police in London have a poor record in attending.  You see its not like it was in Thatchers day when she sent the Met into mining areas on overnight allowances and double time!!

[Colwyn]

Of course, Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister of the 20th century didn't get a national ceremonial funeral. And neither did the second greatest. They were also great wartime leaders - although not in a prime ministerial role. But then they weren't Tories, were they?

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It was his party even if he wasn't PM at that time.

Try adding Manchester as well  

I forgot about dear old Callaghan - the man who's government had to go to the IMF for a bail out for the only time in British history.

As someone once said - Socialism is fine until you run out of someone else's money  

[stoop]

Of course, Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister of the 20th century didn't get a national ceremonial funeral. 

According to some she just did  

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It was his party even if he wasn't PM at that time.

Try adding Manchester as well    No let's not do that

I forgot about dear old Callaghan - the man who's government had to go to the IMF for a bail out for the only time in British history. Yes and they paid it off too, and left the country in the black, what did Thatcher and her government leave behind in terms of economic legacy?

As someone once said - Socialism is fine until you run out of someone else's money    Bit like statements such as creating a shareholding democracy where we would all get richer from the privatised wealth creation (M Thatcher) ... only thing is neither happened, wealth was concentrated into fewer hands, and as the Thatcher money trick started to unwind we ended up paying for it by having to bail out the banks, and put the country into the longest economic slump since the thirties.

[Colwyn]

According to some she just did   

They are in error.

[Lotty]

No-ones going to win this, lets all agree to differ. I'm just off now for a quiet cup of tea.