Margaret Thatcher funeral: Galloway attacks 'canonisation of wicked woman'

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/15/thatcher-funeral-galloway-wicked-woman
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The Respect MP will attempt to ensure that parliament continues to sit during the funeral. David Cameron, with the agreement of the Labour frontbench, has proposed cancelling the morning sitting of parliament on Wednesday to allow MPs and peers to attend the funeral.

The cancellation would mean that for a fourth week in a row Cameron would not have to face prime minister's questions. Cameron last faced the half-hour session on the day of the budget.

Galloway said on BBC2's Daily Politics: "We're spending £10m on the canonisation of this wicked woman, this woman who laid waste to industrial Britain, to the north, to Scotland, to south Wales. We've already had the recall of parliament last week, with MPs being paid up to £3,700 to fly back from the Caribbean holiday that they were on and then fly back to start their holiday again, for a totally unnecessary fawning over this woman. And now they want to cancel prime minister's questions. It's absurd."

He criticised the level of attention Thatcher's funeral had received. He pointed out that the Labour prime minister Harold Wilson had won four general elections, and said the Labour postwar prime minister Clement Attlee "totally transformed the country in the wake of the second world war – neither of those had anything remotely like this, this tidal wave of guff that the country's been forced to listen to, particularly on the BBC.
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[cali]

1. ugh. Galloway. He's such a loathsome character. Not the person I'd choose

to quote on this. Or anything.

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. Hear, hear! Enough already. The fact that Americans are dim-witted enough to deify their

failed leaders is no reason to emulate us.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Galloway's attendance at the House of Commons

is notable by its general absense. He's simply making a vague attempt to get some to recall who / what he actually is.

Bellend comes to mind.