Was it necessary for the people of old mining towns to burn a dummy of Maggie Thatcher on her funeral day?

At the same time they were doing that, Cameron was up in St. Paul’s praising the woman’s legacy and politics and saying ‘We are all Thatcherites now’ Using the funeral to push her legacy and the same politics.

Well the people in those communities wanted to make something quite clear that they were absolutely not thatcherites, hated the woman, and her politics

why should this vile example of a human being command one iota of respect. This woman devastated the lives of millions and has loads of blood on her hands. She was friends with tyrants like Pinochet. She supported murderers like the Khmer Rouge. She supported the racist apartheid regime in S. Africa. She sacrificed huge swathes of her own country on the altar of the markets leaving communities decimated.

Her political spawn has pushed her policies since she left power.

The tory scum in power now in the UK, have been praising the greatness of her as a person and her political ideals and using her death to validate them.

She should have spent her latter years in a cell and not in the Ritz.

So yes, I with many will celebrate this vile woman’s passing.
Why should her passing be marked with respect when she showed damn all to the victims of her policies. Why should her political successors be allowed to use the event to glorify her legacy.

If her family wanted a quiet and respectful funeral, have a quiet private funeral. No instead it was made a big public spectacle. This can’t go unchallenged.

I dont understand this”respect for the dead” bit

SInce I sure as hell did not repect her when she was alive I see absolutely no reason to respect her when she is dead

The only thing to celebrate is the fact that she is dead, and to me thats good riddance.

As for previous answer
Learn some fact before spouting bullshit
Do you really not understand what the strike was about? –
The whole reason for miners going on strike was TO KEEP THE MINES OPEN – It was MAGGIE THAT WANTED TO CLOSE THEM
The miners didnt turn the pumps off – the management did.
It was the miners who WANTED the pumps and maintenance to continue so the mines would be kept workable and they would have jobs to go back to.
It was the management that stopped everything so that there would be no option to close which is what they wanted in the first place.

This country had around 3 years worth of coal as a natural resource, MAGGIE destroyed that, and YOU praise her for it.
It would cost an absolute fortune now to regain just a fraction of that resource, but we now have to rely on gas from russia and africa to survive.
THAT is the result of what MAGGIE did.

Totally wrong and in very poor taste, these people chose to strike and stay on strike for 18 months while the mines flooded through lack of maintenance, they themselves turned the pumps off and put themselves out of work through their own actions it was a demonstration of their own ignorance!

Prime ministers male or female or of any idealogy do not have to give in to every bit of emotional blackmail, if they did the country would be ungovernable, as it was before Mrs T took over!

Lol we are still mining our own coal, it fuels our coal-fired power stations but nowadays we have open-cast mines!

The owners did not want to shut the mines, it meant they lost money!

Some of the pits would have closed because there was scarcely any coal left in them, the rest would have remained open, but for Scargill’s stubborn stupidity (which btw he has now admitted) he led the miners like lemmings over a cliff!

It is definitely disrespectful. And also ignorant. History has been re-written by socialists, as always. Now people have been taught that Margaret Thatcher closed the coal mines. She did close a few, 15, but her predecessor, Wilson, closed 56. Yet no one’s angry at him. I wonder if anyone even knows why they hate Margaret Thatcher, I don’t think anyone does as they’ve been taught fiction instead of history. Many even believe history started in 1979 and she was a dictator.

It wasn’t “necessary”, but it was an option, and they took it.

Why show respect to someone who never showed a shred of it towards you?

People celebrated when Bin Laden was killed. Did you raise objections to that as well?

Stop shoving your morals down everyone else’s throat. It was bad enough having the publically funded funeral shoved down our throats, by a government who until then had claimed that there wasn’t enough money to pay for anything but essentials.

“really have little respect for anything other then their ideology.”

At least they HAVE an ideology. What’s yours? Oh no wait….lets see what Murdoch says.

It was disrespectful of the state to grant such a grand send off to someone who so many had major issues with. It was made a public spectacle and a major propaganda coup for the current Thatcherite muppets in Downing Street.

Even without that coup, I think these long neglected towns had every right to cast out the demon that has haunted them.

It was absolutely right for these people to do that

how respectful was it of her to ruin their communities and lives
these old mining villages have never recovered , these are places full of unemployment and drug addictions , young people can not get jobs or mortgages , just a legacy of thatchers nasty work
maybe you should visit one of these towns and speak to people

On the other hand i saw villages and town as around me end up ran down due to what she did ad how many families saw loved ones die due to money she took away from them.

I see your point but also i see there’s as i live surrounded by those old mines and myself even lost my job to her ideals.

So i guess if anyone caused your family distress i wonder if you would feel the same way,respectful or not

I thought it was wrong to celebrate a death too, but evidently I’m in the minority. I thought it was bad taste to celebrate the death of Gadaffi but lots of people thought it right, the same with Thatcher.

It was disrespectful. Every government head has people who really like
them and people who really hate them. Apparently, the haters were
making their statement. Boo Hiss. Too late for her to see their little
hate dummy, so all they hurt was family members.

Yes, it was very disrespectful for people to burn effigies of Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral. It is incredibly bad form to be happy about someone’s death, even if you don’t like them.

Of course not. At first I had sympathy for them but now I just think they’re simple-minded.

If people were criticized for celebrating Osama Bin Laden’s death then they should certainly be criticised for celebrating Mrs Thatcher’s death!

Goodness sake, even pedophile, Jimmy Saville, didn’t have protesters at his funeral — there must have been lots of people who knew what he did immediately after his death but they waited until he was buried.

Of course it was disrespectful. That was the point. Those towns have no respect for the woman whose government destroyed their communities.

It didn’t happen in many mining towns. I only heard of it happening in one. It wasn’t necessary like eating is but it’s a free country so whatever.

well they are idiots aren’t they, if they understood globalisation they wouldn’t have had to scrabble under ground like moles in the first place..

I wasn’t a fan of thatcher, either.
A dummy of thatcher doesn’t affect me, so I don’t worry about.

well I would not of done that but I can understand the deep feelings some people hold against her
now lets move on

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my head

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Imagine if the Thatcher family have a party everytime one of those mining family members dies? has a big fire burning them and gets it on tv….I can tell you there would be outrage.

Why did these people wait 23 years after she left office to protest when she is dead……most likely they didn’t have the guts to confront her before.