General Discussion
Polls on whether she should have a "ceremonial" (state) funeral: Guardian readers - 83% NO Daily Mail readers - 67% YES
Human being v. politician - exploring the ethics of how to respond to someone's death http://historyschipwrapper.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/ethics-are-thatcher-death-parties-ok/
@michaelclayson . yes, she is a human being who has died but unfortunately the politics is never going to be left out of this - as you see from cameron's remark and from the announcement of a state funeral. personally i don't believe she deserves that - a simple family funeral, paid for by the family, would suffice with a subsequent remembrance service to acknowledge that she was a leader (one ...
Possibly to be admired as a strong female character with her own assertive style in leading a motley band but single-handedly she has also probably done the most to destroy so much of the industrial infrastructure of the country and the compassion in society in the single-minded pursuit of market forces.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/dont-get-mad-about-use-of-philpotts-tarnish-poor Superb article in Guardian by Zoe Williams about the right-wing vitriol of the Daily Mail against those on benefits. I see that Osborne today is jumping on the Tory band-wagon of tarring people on benefits with the same brush as Philpott.
Re-signed and posted to Teignmouth Oracle.
Signed
Interesting solution from Frank Fields in yesterday's Independent - block up the spare bedroom. It's what they did to windows 400 years ago when the governement of the day imposed a window tax, interestingly to pay for the Nine Years War.
Dawlish may not be a paradise like the Maldives but at least we don't flog women who have been raped her. Click and sign the petition on the link to help make a difference. http://www.avaaz.org/en/maldives_global/?crWHicb
Or maybe we could build a fleet of HMY Britannias and arm them with nuclear missiles killing two birds with one stone. Mmm. I think there just maybe better ways of spending billions of tax-payers money than sending the wealthy on gravy-train rides around the world or as a mythical deterrent. How about better health care, better social care, better education - sounds much more productive than ...
