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DING DONG!  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
4/12/2013 4:20 am
DING DONG!



Following the death of Margaret Thatcher, The Wizard Of Oz song, 'Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead', is heading to the top of the UK's music charts.

Some are calling the song to be banned from being played on the BBC because it breaches taste and decency; others are arguing that the BBC should play the song, even if tasteless, as it should not be the state's censor.

Should the BBC play this song?
Is the song tasteless?


Margaret Thatcher's funeral takes place in St Paul's Cathedral next Wednesday, 17 April. The costs of her funeral, plus security costs, will be largely borne by UK taxpayers. It is estimated that her funeral will cost between £8m and £10m.

Should taxpayers pay for Margaret Thatcher's funeral?

The Queen will attend the funeral, which will be a ceremonial funeral with military honours. The last funeral the Queen attended was Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. The Queen doesn't do funerals!

Over 2,000 people have been invited to Margaret Thatcher's funeral. Barack Obama has been invited but is yet to confirm his attendance. Tony Blair, Shirley Bassey, Jeremy Clarkson, Joan Collins and Terry Wogan are going to the funeral.

Neil Kinnock, the former Leader party leader, has declined his invitation as he has another funeral to go to. It will be interesting to see if the Argentinian President, Cristina Kirchner, accepts her invitation to attend her funeral.

If invited, would you go to Margaret Thatcher's funeral?

Margaret Thatcher spent her last months in a luxury suite at The Ritz hotel in London. I've been told that rich people often spend their last days in a luxury hotel because of the high standard of service provided.

I wonder whether The Ritz will place a premium on the suite Thatcher died in for hotel guests wanting to savour the Thatcher death experience

Would you stay in the hotel suite that Thatcher died in?

lindoboy100 61M
23969 posts
4/12/2013 4:36 am

If the song is climbing the charts, then it is enjoyed by a sizeable proportion of the UK population. The BBC charter obliges it to represent the UK population, therefore it should play the song accordingly.

I'd heard the cost was to be closer to £15m. I wonder how many disabled people that kind of money would keep in benefits for a year? What a disgraceful waste of public money! And it's not as if her estate couldn't afford the expense!

Only to dance on her grave.

If I could set it on fire, yes!

There's no such thing as respect for the dead, they have no idea what's going on, they're dead. Their survivors may be entitled to some level of respect, but bearing in mind that this abomination of a human couldn't bring herself to pay any kind of reasonable respect to the living, I am finding it difficult to offer any sort of solace to her survivors. I'm sure their inheritance will help to ease their pain!


salard2 75M/70F
56 posts
4/12/2013 11:45 pm

These are the words of a nephew of mine and I like the article.
Tonight I shall go and have a drink for Margaret Thatcher's death. I shall raise my glass to the night sky, and THANK HER, and celebrate her life. People on thi...s seem to have a very strange view of history. So here are a few little nuggets with how and more specifically WHY a lot of industries were destroyed by her, and what's more, ...destroyed with the MANDATE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE. The seventies were blighted by the trade unions waiting for winter and then coming out on strike at it's heart. Holding the country to ransom for ANNUAL pay rises of up to 36% ABOVE inflation. This was the likes of Scargill and co. And they bled us dry. We were bankrupted by them. And then the Winter of Discontent happened. And they ALL came out. Miners, power workers, transport workers; even funeral directors, everything tied into the TGWU came out. My own grandparents lay on a slab for 2 months waiting to be buried. The entire country was a ruin. Rubbish not collected for months, rats everywhere. And the unions laughed, and brought down Callaghan's Labour Government. And Thatcher stood up at the General Election and made ONE SIMPLE PROMISE. Elect me. And THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. ELECT ME AND I WILL DESTROY THEM. She won a landslide. On that promise.And she became the last elected Prime Minister to actually hold true to her election promise. She did exactly what she said. She utterly destroyed the unions. Obliterated them. The cost was those industries. We knew that would be the price. But we would not allow them to hold us to ransom again. What she did, she did with our BLESSING. The socialists and people who backed those strikes have only themselves to blame for what happened. Baroness Thatcher didn't destroy those industries and communities for fun or as part of a class war. She did it to stop them holding the country to ransom again. And then she held the purse strings tight and re-built the economy and the country and Britain again stood tall and thrived. And we won back the global respect we had lost while the left wing ruled. In the Falklands we were thankful for her being in office. Those of us who went 'south' in '82 did so knowing we had a leader who would not - and did not- interfere. She sent the military and allowed us to do our job. Gave us the money, the equipment and most of all THE FREEDOM to get the job done. Our lands had been invaded. We had a gun up our nose. SHE led us. Frankly Thatcher took a very broken Britain by the hand like a strict old fashioned Matron and LED THE COUNTRY BACK TO WHERE IT HAD ONCE BEEN. We were the worlds 3rd major power in ALL respects. And as for the world, it has NEVER been safer than when Thatcher was in Downing Street, Reagan was in the White House and Gorbachev was in the Kremlin as the three spoke DAILY. They laid the ground for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Russians were TERRIFIED of her. And the world again feared Britain. And lets not forget that she gave people the full right to buy their own council property. Her vision was that the TENNANT and the tennant alone could buy that property.As soon as her party stabbed her in the back the feeding frenzy began as under her the famous Tory grandee greed was held in check. So they stabbed her, led by the europro traitor ponce Heseltine - who didn't have the guts to face her openly and alone - they arranged her removal. And we have been a broken patsy for europe ever since. So yes, tonight I will celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher, with thanks, with respect, and with sadness, because she allowed me to know what we could be, what we could achieve, what it meant to be BRITISH
An ex British Serviceman.


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/18/2013 10:06 am

Margaret Thatcher divided us in life and divided us again in death!
One of us!!!


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