Local ABC station just reported Margaret Thatcher died.

[Skidmore]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/former-prime-minister-baroness-margaret-2547147

Margaret Thatcher dies after suffering a stroke
8 Apr 2013 12:54
Former Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher has died following a stroke, her spokesman Lord Bell has said.

Former Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher has died following a stroke, her spokesman Lord Bell has said.

Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.

"A further statement will be made later."

[CountAllVotes]

1. .

n/t

[In_The_Wind]

2. May she rest in peace.

http://www.guardiannews.com/

[JoeBlowToo]

3. May she burn in Hell.

She earned it.

[Itchinjim]

4. +1

[In_The_Wind]

6. Aren't you so wonderful!

[JoeBlowToo]

24. You are defending her as a wonderful human being?

Otherwise you are being hypocritical as so many are after crappy humans like her are dead.

[In_The_Wind]

26. I am offering comfort to her family as any compassionate human should.

I am not condoning her behavior, simply the fact that she existed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022634521

However ... ^^^ ...

[JoeBlowToo]

31. Her family will not know of your great compassion...so that is just to make you feel good

And right back at ya with this post

Margaret Thatcher and Misapplied Death Etiquette
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022635520

[In_The_Wind]

33. I was a news junkie until I watched the horrors of 9/11 for days.

Until I joined DU ... I have limited my exposure to bad news.
So go ahead like so many DUers are doing to day .........

I'll go back to posting elsewhere. Oh well.

[malaise]

11. That pop you hear is

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the bottle opening - I'll have to replace Cheney's bottle now

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_871SdrUIr8Q/TNdYmpO482I/AAAAAAAABRI/XNOQKBqvkZQ/s1600/champagne+popping.jpg

[datasuspect]

32. i second that emotion

[truebrit71]

9. Fuck that...

..made my Monday morning that's for sure...

[malaise]

15. +1,000 n/t

[KG]

5. piss on her.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. Look at all of the liberal compassion in this thread.

[The Link]

8. Rather than whining, why not bring some centrist compassion?

Be the bigger person.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

16. I'm still waiting on the e-mail dispatches from DLC HQ to know how to respond.

Bear with me.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

20. Tell that to Bobby Sands

and his family

[Arugula Latte]

29. Oh, boo hoo. Hand wring. Clutch pearls. Smelling salts.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Her house guest Pinochet stayed out of prison for war crimes

because of the sanctuary she gave him.

I'm sure he'll welcome her in his hell

[reformist2]

12. Her policies helped to produce some of the best angst-ridden British rock of the 20th century.

Fans of the punk / new-wave music scene of the early 80s owe her a debt of gratitude.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Indeed

"Touching from a distance, further all the time..."

"...now gravediggers in Liverpool refuse to bury the dead..."

"...dance dance dance dance dance to the radio...."

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Yeah, but, "gravediggers in Liverpool refuse to bury the dead" is pre-Thatcher (as PM)

It's a reference to the early 1979 strike:

OFFICIALS secretly considered bringing in troops to dig graves for the bodies of the dead left unburied during the “winter of discontent”, it was disclosed today.

The idea had to be dropped amid fears of “unseemly scenes” if soldiers clashed with pickets outside cemetery gates, papers released to the National Archives at Kew, west London, under the 30-year rule show.

The spectacle of bodies going unburied by striking gravediggers in Liverpool and Tameside, Manchester, came to sum up the industrial anarchy of the winter of 1978/79 which brought James Callaghan’s Labour government to its knees.

A paper drawn up for the Government’s Civil Contingencies Unit, in January, 1979, warned that 500 funerals had to be postponed, and that while bodies could be stored for up to six weeks in heat-sealed bags, this was “totally unacceptable for aesthetic reasons”.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/12/30/secret-plan-to-let-troops-bury-dead-99623-25492906/

It was something Thatcher campaigned on in May 1979 - that under Labour, there were so many strikes that bodies were going unburied. You really need to look later for reaction to Thatcher - especially once the 1984 miner's strike started.

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. Thatcher was a presence nationally from 1976 on, much like Reagan

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Thatcherism as the coming neoliberalism ending what the Brits called the "post-war settlement between capital and labor" was certainly the talk of British politics after 1976.

But, yes, of course you're correct that the real ravages of Thatcherism would wait for the 80's.

[LTR]

28. And Pink Floyd's worst album

[Dorian Gray]

13. I'm sorry for her family

members who survive her.

I don't think we'll miss her years as PM.

[blueknight]

17. never cared for her or her politics

but may she rest in peace

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

18. RIP, but that means that I will be turning off my TV all week. Nothing but Saint Ronnie and Maggie.

I can't take it!

[Cal Carpenter]

19. Good riddance.

I save the grave dancing for the worst of the worst, and she is in that category for sure.

[tabasco]

21. I concur - good riddance to rotten trash. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

27. Buh Bye evil Maggie. Your damage to the planet lives on.

[Kalidurga]

30. I am not going to grave dance...

But I will supply the music.

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