Maggie 'death cake' handed out in UK streets..

[HipChick]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-video-cheering-1818888#.UWMontnIJg0.twitter

People cheered and handed out 'Maggie death cake' today at one of several street parties held to celebrate Margaret Thatcher's death.

Video of the gathering in LEEDS was posted on YouTube and shows dozens of people whooping in delight.

A man can be seen using a megaphone chanting: "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie", to which the crowd reply "dead, dead, dead".

One woman, offering the cameraman "Thatcher death cake", tells him: "We're celebrating."

The former Prime Minister died peacefully this morning aged 87 at the Ritz Hotel after suffering a stroke.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Would have made a good Python sketch ...

Gotta love the Brits.

[zazen]

107. speaking of Python, this calls to mind Eddie Izzard's "cake, or . . . death?"

The idea of a mob of polite, restrained Anglicans (per Eddie Izzard's imitation) handing out cake is just too much.

[Nye Bevan]

3. How beautiful and heartwarming.

What fun those youngsters are having! And I wonder if they'll party all over again when Tony Blair dies?

[hrmjustin]

5. That just seems wrong to me.

I did not like her but that just seems like not the right thing to do.

[notadmblnd]

9. Why shouldn't death be celebrated?

People that die, they are the lucky ones. No more troubles, worries, bills to pay. I want people to celebrate when I die because it means that all my troubles are over.

[hrmjustin]

11. Were they celebrating her life or happy that she is dead?

[sabrina 1]

25. Happy she is gone. She wasn't exactly a friend of the working class. But Ronnie Reagan loved her.

[notadmblnd]

26. why should it matter? I think if Ms. thatcher was worried about how people

would react to her death, she would have paid better mind to her legacy. I'm not celebrating, but I'm feeling no sadness over her death. If people want to celebrate that she is gone- whether it be that her suffering is over or that the suffering she caused is, so be it

[hrmjustin]

27. I was just shocked. I should make no judgement on it.

[MrScorpio]

41. The "Iron Lady" didn't give a fuck about her legacy

Thus, this response to her death is the result.

[SwampG8r]

21. as twain said

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
thatcher wouldnt waste a second thinking of these boors and neither should we

[whathehell]

60. I feel the same.

I didn't like her, or Reagan, but I wouldn't celebrate her death or his.

[idwiyo]

30. I dont drink but when that bastard dies, I will drink myself under the table.

[LittleBlue]

65. [phone]

When Chimpy, Cheney and Blair die, I'm cracking open a bottle of red each time to commemorate their damnation to hell.

They've ruined hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives and probably deserve to be executed for war crimes, so they're getting off lightly to be allowed a natural death.

[idwiyo]

66. I will be drinking myself into the stupor on the other side of the Pond, whe each one of them

drops dead.

[Nye Bevan]

49. Good. Definitely less strident. Keep it up. (nt)

[sibelian]

51. Certainly hope they do.

I expect celebratory raves for Thatcher, but for Blair.... ooooh he was just a deeply treacherous little creature. I have no idea how anyone's going to respond to that man's death. She destroyed the ideology of the UK, but he resurrected it and then hogtied it in the market square and shat on it, laughing.

[sulphurdunn]

74. The Iron Lady

and her Downton Abbey reality caused massive suffering among common people in Britain and everywhere her Pax Britannia delusions were entertained. It's not hard to conclude that she was suffering from dementia while in office, not unlike Ronald Reagan. Conservatives have a penchant for picking demented or just plain stupid leaders.

[tblue]

102. Let this be a warning

to politicians who care about their legacy. You want people celebrating when you die?

[hrmjustin]

4. They must really have hated her.

[truebrit71]

8. What was your first clue?

She was DESPISED in many, many quarters..

[backscatter712]

10. Understatement of the year! n/t

[hrmjustin]

12. I was born in 78 so I do not remember her much.

[backscatter712]

13. I remember a little more - I was born in 73.

Granted, I'm in the US, so I didn't see things first hand...

But she's responsible for the union-busting and destruction of the coal industry in the northern UK, she tried hitting the country with the Poll Tax - a fixed tax for every adult in the UK - which led to riots and her downfall.

She protected Pinochet, called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, and drove countless millions of people into economic ruin and misery.

[hrmjustin]

14. She was Reagans evil twin as I remember.

This makes me wonder what it will be like here in the US when Cheney and Junior dies.

[backscatter712]

17. I think a lot of us here at DU, and half the nation, are going to be popping champagne corks. n/t

[hrmjustin]

18. I could imagine bells ringing out all over the land.

[HipChick]

19. I lived in the UK under her....

I know why people are celebrating...

[Warpy]

20. Looks like you need to do some reading on her

That movie Streep starred in was ridiculously biased.

Thatcher was a disaster for working people in the UK like Reagan was a disaster for us, only they're not nearly as reticent about speaking out about what she did to them.

Exhibit A, a condom ad from about 20 years ago: (SFW)

Exhibit B, a TV show that aired right after her last hospitalization:

&feature=player_embedded

Remember, this is what they were saying over there while she was alive!

We are delighted she is no longer with us.

[hrmjustin]

23. Wow thanks for posting that Warpy!

I guess she left a lasting impact.

[Scootaloo]

31. Yeah, sort of like the K-T asteroid...

[hrmjustin]

32. I did not lknow she was hated that much.

[Occulus]

68. She was.

Bitterly, and by millions all over the world.

Since you believe so fervently in the christian god, consider that he just excised a cancer.

[hrmjustin]

75. I don't think God took her but a stroke did.

I was just taken aback to how many people hated her. I was too young to really remember her.

[Warpy]

34. More like a series of wounds that are barely scabbed over.

A friend in Yorkshire told me she's baking a cake and having a party to celebrate. What's happening on DU is very mild compared to what's happening in the UK, especially in the north, in Ulster, in Scotland and in Wales.

[hrmjustin]

47. IHeard from someone on FB that they are having block parties.

[idwiyo]

33. Damn right we are!

thank you for the videos! the ad for condoms is priceless!

[arely staircase]

44. here is some more

The kind people
Have a wonderful dream
Margaret on the guillotine
Cause people like you
Make me feel so tired
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?

And people like you
Make me feel so old inside
Please die

And kind people
Do not shelter this dream
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make the dream real
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make it real

[Glimmer of Hope]

61. This song made me think of our beloved Dick. I wonder if they loved her as much as we love Cheney?

[Posteritatis]

42. They occasionally had some disagreements, yes. (nt)

[laundry_queen]

70. Um, yeah. They still do.

My prof today, who is a Brit, gave us a little lesson on all she did in the UK. He used the words like 'destroyed' and 'devastated' with regards to what she did to the country. And I'm pretty sure he was trying to be restrained with what he said.

[backscatter712]

6. I was inspired to post a certain song titled Maggie by The Exploited.

But its lyrics would get me PPR'd here. It's on Youtube.

Hence the self-delete early in this thread.

[Shrike47]

7. I guess a few people didn't like her.

El Rushbo will be stunned, I'm sure. He spent this morning singing her praises.

[maxrandb]

15. Perhaps Dylan said it best

"And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead."

[Dreamer Tatum]

16. What a joke. nt

[malaise]

22. The Windrush was the ship that took all those Caribbean folks to work in London

in 1948. Most of them were Jamaicans

[HipChick]

37. She was not a friend of the immigrants...we are trying to get the song "Ding,Dong..The Witch is Dead

to UK #1 spot by the end of the week...some folks do not understand the vitrol that she imposed...

[malaise]

40. Why do you think they are sharing cake, cider and milk?

Juxtapose reality with Andrea Mitchell and her fawning over this scumbag

[ellenfl]

82. mrs. greenspan would most likely idolize the iron lady. eom

[TimberValley]

24. It's sad to see this happening in any democracy.

Frankly, I think this is terrible behavior by these people.

[HangOnKids]

28. Democracy Is Messy

"Terrible behavior by these people." Ahh too bad, so sad.

[hunter]

29. Thatcher was no friend of democracy.

And a very good friend of plutocracy.

If there was any justice on this earth a house would have fallen on her years ago.

[HipChick]

36. You wouldn't...not if you had to live under her rule....

Worst than Bush..

[Warren Stupidity]

39. She was fucking reviled.

[OldDem2012]

43. Frankly, I think the punishment fits the crime. She was hated in a lot of circles. nt.

[Arugula Latte]

45. "Terrible behavior" is what she did to her own people.

She crushed real peoples' lives.

Terrible behavior is being a loyal friend and supporter of Pinochet while calling Nelson Mandela a "terrorist."

She's dead and she doesn't know about the death cakes, so don't worry about that.

[socialist_n_TN]

81. That was my first thought too Argula.......

This is NOTHING compared to her "terrible behavior".

[sibelian]

53. Oh, the humanity!

TimberValley's upset, everybody!

[malaise]

91. Bwaaaaaaaaah hahahahahahha

Well I am not so there. Fuck Margaret Thatcher

[amuse bouche]

58. I think it's wonderful

They are celebrating all over the country

Do some research. She cozied up to Apartheid and Called Nelson Mandela a terrorist

She was pretty evil

[Apophis]

89. Your concern is noted.

[darkangel218]

94. +1

[Skidmore]

35. I have no problem with people expressing

their feelings about an individual who had a great deal of impact on their individual lives for an extended period of time. For me, when Cheney goes, I'll pay to have someone wheel me out to express my joy at the world having just that much less evil resident. I've lost all sense of charity with some individuals on this planet.

[Warren Stupidity]

38. Oddly enough, I'm in the uk and they had one at the office I was visiting.

Seems she was not well liked.

[Arugula Latte]

46. I'd actually have more hope for this country if things like that had broken out when Reagan died.

People here are just sheep, though. Can't rock the boat, you know.

[Freddie]

63. We Americans are "respectful" of the dead

Regardless of how we felt about them while alive. Looks like the Brits have no such "good manners". Refreshing IMO.
She's with her pal Ronnie in a very warm place.

[markpkessinger]

64. "Respectful" to a fault, we are n/t

[paleotn]

71. Agreed.

[sikofit3]

77. Agreed

N/T

[alarimer]

52. I don't wish anyone dead, but I read some obituaries with glee.

Paraphrasing Clarence Darrow.

[MaineLinePhilly]

54. She was very polarizing so its understandable

I had commented before that while I in NO WAY agreed with her politics, I admired her for her fortitude and leadership abilities. Anyone who breaks into the boys club gets a thumbs up from me, but thats as far as it goes. I can admire her ability to lead while vehemently opposing her political ideology. I don't live in Britain so therefore I'm not going to criticize those celebrating her death.

[Surya Gayatri]

55. She was thoroughly reviled in the EU as well. Under her reign,

the historical sobriquet of "Perfidious Albion" (Pérfide Albion) for Britain was revived by the French.

[rhett o rick]

56. To those here that dont appreciate the celebrations, let me say this....

We in the 99% dont have control on what happens with the Elite 1%. They can commit crimes with impunity. The only thing they cant control is their death. That's why we celebrate.

Cheney is a worse criminal than many in prison yet he can get on The View and be treated as a saint and we the 99% have to sit and take it. But the grim reaper will eventually get him and we will celebrate that he finally found someone more powerful than himself.

I dont wish Cheney to die, just rot in prison. Is that too much to ask?

[darkangel218]

57. I dont know much about Ms Tatcher

But I think its wrong to be happy she's dead. I think we should respect those who have passed. They're gone, they can't do any more harm, let them rest in peace. All this grave dancing in sick IMO.

[darkangel218]

78. Im not concerned, is not me who is displaying the lack of empathy.

Lol

[Occulus]

62. Then you should learn.

Her ideas have outlived and will continue to outlive her, and they are a poisonous cancer upon the entire human race. She most certainly is doing still a very great deal of harm, through the legacy of her ideas (such as they are), and most of us know that. The gravedancing is not only deserved, but bought, paid for, and most definitely earned in every sense of the word.

That woman did a very very very great deal of harm, and dealt a very very very great deal of suffering and misery, to an enormous population of people who deserved nothing of the kind. As brief as Cheney and Bush were in office, and with as much harm as they themselves did, they both together do not hold so much as a paper match from a barroom book to the evils of the Great Old Poisonous Cancer-Witch Margaret Fucking Thatcher.

I for one am deeply thankful that old fucking bat is dead, and I hope she's burning beyond the reference, comprehension, or bitterest experience of the living, in the very very deepest of the Christian hells.

[xtraxritical]

67. Germany's Myrkle is a Thatcher clone.

[Habibi]

83. I wonder

whether members of the 1% ever see celebrations like this and are shocked. I hope so. Perhaps some of them might reconsider what they're doing. They may dismiss the idea of consequences in the afterlife, but nobody wants their death to be celebrated.

Or so I tell myself.

Edited to correct grammatical error.

[idwiyo]

69. Actually they can, very much so. Her fucking legacy is arseholes like Poodle & Co, and they sure

keep bleeding the country dry. Never mind what they did to other countries.

[darkangel218]

79. Then how comr they havent changed anything?

She's been out of the office for a long time, how come none of that "legacy" changed?
Sure people can grave dance all they want, I will keep disagreeing with it. There is a point where us as humans need to forgive and let go. Hating someone even in their death is not good.

[idwiyo]

85. The are some things that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. Ever.

YMMV.

[darkangel218]

86. Things, such as someones deeds, i agree. some should never be forgiven.

But we can forgive the person. They are dead, let their spirit rest. This level of hate is what makes humanity sucks.

[idwiyo]

88. Rust In Pieces is the nicest thing I can say to her. You are welcome to forgive her, Poddle,

Bush, Cheney, and the rest of their company. I'll keep on saying that she is one of the vilest arseholes one can think of and World is a better place without her.

YMMV.

[darkangel218]

93. Are you perfect , as a spiritual beign?

I bet youre not. Thatcher is dead. meaning shes only a spirit.

Only when we are going to be perfect and absolete should we judge the DEAD. theyre gone, they have passed, let them be!!

I cant believe i see so much vitriol towards a passed human beign on DU. its a sad wake up call.

[idwiyo]

96. Not yours to tell others whom to forgive, when and how. All that is yours is to say

"I forgive her" and stop at that. Otherwise you are starting to sound VERY sanctimonious, see what I mean? Hope you do.

[darkangel218]

97. You obviously are not in touch with your spiritual self.

Not yours to judge the dead either.

[idwiyo]

98. Mine to state my opinion. Not yours to force your opinion on others. VERY sanctimonious.

[HipChick]

84. The UK is still suffering from all the harm she did..

[Apophis]

90. She didn't respect people when she was alive.

Why should she get respect at death?

[darkangel218]

92. Are you a saint?

Have you not made mistakes?

How lond are you going to curse and punish someone, to eternity?

Those earthly matters should stop once someone has passed. Maybe they were here to learn a lesson. We shouldnt condemn someone to eternal sufferring because of how they led a country as PM.

The soul/spirit exists. I bet none of you would like to be judged after death for what you might have or might have not done wrong.

[idwiyo]

99. Maggie didn't give a shit about her "soul/spirit" while she was alive., otherwise she would have

at least apologised to countless people who's lives she destroyed without remorse while "learning her lesson" (according to you). If she didn't give a shit, why would anyone else? YMMV, of course.

BTW, you sound more and more sanctimonious with every post. What gives?

[darkangel218]

100. Because i know the difference between life and death.

Let her spirit rest. It will do no good hating her, except giving yourself a bad karma. Let it go. She can't hurt anyone anymore, let her spirit move to higher realms.

[LongTomH]

106. Speaking of bad karma.....

......if there is such a thing as reincarnation, Maggie will have to spend several lousy lifetimes to make up for the bad karma she created in this one.

[Apophis]

101. Haha. Really?

I didn't spend my life shitting on the poor and the working class or calling for peace activists to be thrown in prison.

So yes, compared to that vile woman, I'm a saint.

By the way, I'm an atheist. Spare me the soul nonsense.

[HereSince1628]

72. Wow, that's really harsh...

Did the cake have frosting?

[DebbieCDC]

73. I hated her (and Ray-guns) in life and I see no reason to change my opinion of either now

Everything dies. Does someone who was evil in life become "good" when they die? Does death confer sainthood?

No. They did not earn my respect in life and they sure as hell don't merit it in death.

I will feel the same when the Bushes and Cheneys pass to what I hope is eternal damnation.

Death does not win you a pass with me for your actions in life.

[PasadenaTrudy]

80. +1 n/t

[HipChick]

76. Here's some celebratory death music..

#!

[Katashi_itto]

95. This is something we ought to do everytime a Republican snuffs it.

I do not understand why we "have to be better than them" mentality. Repubicans would have us starving in the streets. When one dies, we are supposed to be "oh-so-correct"

[backscatter712]

103. +1!

I'll be cracking open the champagne and microbrews the day Cheney kicks it!

That will be a party day!

[Zen Democrat]

104. Morning Joe has turned into the Maggie Thatcher Memorial Joe for the past 2 days.

How do I know? I tuned in yesterday and the Maggie adoration was in full bloom. I shut it off and went to Bill Press, as usual. Today, when I turned it on they were genuflecting at the altar of Maggie and Ronnie. Seems a little excessive for a mean and nasty woman of the 80's. When I turn off the TV at night it's been on MSNBC for the late night reruns and therefore is on MSNBC in the a.m., which is why I get exposed to bits of Killer Joe that I accidentally hear before hitting the remote.

[riqster]

105. Think "A Christmas Carol", and what happened when Scrooge snuffed it

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