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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 07:12 PM Apr 2013

'Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead' could reach number one in UK following Margaret Thatcher's death

Source: The Guardian

Lady Thatcher’s death could propel The Wizard Of Oz track "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead to the top of the charts.

Those who saw her death as a cause for celebration have prompted a download surge for the track.

Within 24 hours of the former Prime Minister’s death, the song had risen to number 9 in the iTunes best-sellers chart. It reached number 2 on the Amazon singles download chart.

Sales figures for Monday, released by the Official Charts Company, showed that the song had already made it to number 54 in the rundown used by Radio 1.


Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-could-reach-number-one-following-margaret-thatchers-death-8566042.html



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'Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead' could reach number one in UK following Margaret Thatcher's death (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2013 OP
LOL Auggie Apr 2013 #1
I thatcher dead yet mercuryblues Apr 2013 #2
But Cher is alive and well! htuttle Apr 2013 #4
LOL mercuryblues Apr 2013 #5
one of the first things i saw yesterday morning was an expat friend of mine.. frylock Apr 2013 #3
I popped over to the UK boards of a big knitting site. Warpy Apr 2013 #6
+1 Hissyspit Apr 2013 #7
Hey, I stole it from somebody else, so I guess it's fair game Warpy Apr 2013 #8
Stolen and shared... truebrit71 Apr 2013 #50
great compilation frylock Apr 2013 #9
Excellent list! Lone_Star_Dem Apr 2013 #12
I have been fighting with a few Americans today... HipChick Apr 2013 #18
That's why I posted the list Warpy Apr 2013 #19
The Iron Lady is dead. May she rust in peace. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #49
Wow, I never knew Canuckistanian Apr 2013 #24
But, other than that, she was a good PM? :silly: Thanks for posting. nt raccoon Apr 2013 #43
Someone should send that list to Morning JOE Auntie Bush Apr 2013 #55
Elvis Costello also getting love Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2013 #10
Are you freaking kidding me??? rocktivity Apr 2013 #11
"The Fletcher Memorial Home" is another song worth remembering... xocet Apr 2013 #20
21 Incredibly Angry Songs About Margaret Thatcher Hissyspit Apr 2013 #21
Thanks for the link to that extensive list. n/t xocet Apr 2013 #37
I wish she was dead zentrum Apr 2013 #13
Thatcher was a wannabe monarch tabasco Apr 2013 #14
it is truly a great day maindawg Apr 2013 #15
rofl! nt bananas Apr 2013 #16
I heartily approve. Let the Brits speak their minds. kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #17
Her spirit is gonna be pissed off! UnrepentantLiberal Apr 2013 #22
I wish everyone could have heard the London radio show I listened to today. Gregorian Apr 2013 #23
Next up: Rupert Murdoch! NBachers Apr 2013 #25
Got my vote! santamargarita Apr 2013 #26
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is still dead. CincyDem Apr 2013 #27
And thank goodness for that!!! Beacool Apr 2013 #29
How come Ronnie's passing didn't cause this kind of reaction on this side of the pond? Beacool Apr 2013 #28
We Americans are too f*cking polite Freddie Apr 2013 #30
I like the Brits' attitude too. Our MSM acted like Ronnie was a saint. In fact, I guess that's raccoon Apr 2013 #44
I laughed at that last line. Beacool Apr 2013 #46
Someone else said that it'll be the only 21-gun salute where the guns are fired at the coffin... truebrit71 Apr 2013 #52
OK, that was funny too. Beacool Apr 2013 #54
because Dems quit criticizing his policies after he got Alzheimer's Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2013 #31
I guess that the media and the politicians didn't want to seem as bashing an old, sick man. Beacool Apr 2013 #47
I don't recall any tears shed for Ronnie in my neck of the woods. HoosierRadical Apr 2013 #39
I started singing... bobclark86 Apr 2013 #32
What do we play when Cheney dies? joanbarnes Apr 2013 #33
Sympathy for the devil? Jonathon Round version is better. rwsanders Apr 2013 #35
Thatcher actually raised taxes on everyone to support universal health care. xtraxritical Apr 2013 #34
Any British PM would have done that, so she get's zero points. HoosierRadical Apr 2013 #38
I don't love the person, I like the concept. xtraxritical Apr 2013 #40
Blair for example ? dipsydoodle Apr 2013 #51
I don't think that's a valid interpretation of her actions muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 #45
This message was self-deleted by its author devilgrrl Apr 2013 #36
I really like the way they're doing the charts these days. MrSlayer Apr 2013 #41
I hope we see the same reaction in America when Bush and Cheney croak. BlueStater Apr 2013 #42
I'll be there. nt bemildred Apr 2013 #48
I Always Liked the Fifth Estate version CBGLuthier Apr 2013 #53

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
2. I thatcher dead yet
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 07:28 PM
Apr 2013

The creators of a website called Is Thatcher Dead Yet? – set up in June 2010 – have been receiving threats on Twitter after the death of the former prime minister.


Jared Earle, a computer adminstrator, and Antonio Lulic, a musician, created the site which until Monday carried the simple message "Not yet" in large black letters and a sentence saying, "But when she is … do you want to pay for her funeral?", linking to a Guardian comment piece from December 2011 in which the left-wing writer Sunny Hundal argued that "privatising Margaret Thatcher's funeral would be a fitting tribute to her legacy" .


On Monday, after Margaret Thatcher's death was announced the site was changed to say "Yes", adding: "Margaret Thatcher is dead. This lady's not returning." It also asked readers: "How are you celebrating? Let us know using the #nowthatchersdead hashtag on Twitter, or get to one of the parties near you on Facebook." It also offered a Spotify playlist "for the occasion", adding "Enjoy!"
<snip>

He pointed out that the site does not and never has carried adverts, and that there are no plans to, despite its viewers rocketing from almost nothing in the preceding days to almost 400,000 on Monday.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/08/is-thatcher-dead-yet-website

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
5. LOL
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 07:38 PM
Apr 2013

When I read that yesterday, I immediatedly thought if Cher died it would be the only thing that would knock Thatcher off the front page.

frylock

(34,825 posts)
3. one of the first things i saw yesterday morning was an expat friend of mine..
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 07:28 PM
Apr 2013

posting 'Ding Dong!' on his Facebook wall.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
6. I popped over to the UK boards of a big knitting site.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 07:41 PM
Apr 2013

The only posts that defended the old bag were from Americans who were too young to know what that foul woman did.

Another poster surfed through the boards and came up with a handy dandy list:
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She supported the retention of capital punishment

She destroyed the country’s manufacturing industry

She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws

She abolished free milk for schoolchildren (“Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher”)

She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)

She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration

She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)

She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million

She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands

The poll tax

She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad

She compared her “fight” against the miners to the Falklands War

She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we’ve been railing against for the last 5 years

She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS

She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits

She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA

She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control

Section 28 (preventing discussion of homosexuality in schools and allowing anti-homosexual teaching)

She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as “that grubby little terrorist”

She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers

She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population

She opposed the reunification of Germany

She invented Quangos

She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%

She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister

Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech

The Al Yamamah contract (Saudi arms deal - complete with backhanders)

She opposed the indictment of Chile’s General Pinochet

Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike

She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%

BSE

She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession

She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process

She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa

Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin (all were investigated or imprisoned)

Crime rates doubled under Thatcher

Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion

Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage

She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.

She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education

In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions

21.9% inflation

Can’t say I’m deeply grief stricken by her death!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So there you have it, a one stop Thatcherism education.

Now dare to defend her, even to moan about those of us who are glad she is finally gone.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
8. Hey, I stole it from somebody else, so I guess it's fair game
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 07:45 PM
Apr 2013

It was just too good to sit where it was. It needed to get out.

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
12. Excellent list!
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 08:14 PM
Apr 2013

I'm also going to borrow this and spread it about. I'd forgotten several of her greatest "accomplishments" to be honest.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
18. I have been fighting with a few Americans today...
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 08:47 PM
Apr 2013

Gave up...they can stew in their ignorance in adoring this woman

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
19. That's why I posted the list
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 08:51 PM
Apr 2013

There is nothing like pointing out what that horror actually did in office to pop that fantasy bubble of "great and powerful woman world leader when so few were out there."

I paid attention. I despised that woman with every fiber of my being since a woman that bad is inevitably going to make it more difficult for competent women with functioning moral compasses to come after her.

She bit and clawed her way up the ladder and then burned it.

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
24. Wow, I never knew
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 09:43 PM
Apr 2013

A lot of those things are news to me.

I knew there was a valid reason I never liked her.

Auntie Bush

(17,528 posts)
55. Someone should send that list to Morning JOE
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 10:58 PM
Apr 2013

He just sang the praises for MT on his show. What a great conservative she was...bla. bla, bla. I felt like throwing up!

xocet

(3,870 posts)
20. "The Fletcher Memorial Home" is another song worth remembering...
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 08:59 PM
Apr 2013

All the tracks in this video are quite good.




"The Fletcher Memorial Home" starts at time index 14:30.



The Fletcher Memorial Home (Waters)

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.

And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Scusi dov'è il bar?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
"Who's the bald chap?"
"Good-bye!"
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.

Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead.

Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.

...

http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/fletcher-memorial-final-lyrics.html

 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
15. it is truly a great day
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 08:37 PM
Apr 2013

to be a Brit. I wax for the day we are rid of our own evil assholes. The expiration of evil is always sweet sucore. I envy our children who will live to the day they can know that these evil criminals are where they belong ...................

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
23. I wish everyone could have heard the London radio show I listened to today.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 09:18 PM
Apr 2013

It was hilarious. This dj was blowing raspberries, playing Ding Dong the witch is Dead, and No No No Cat simultaneously. It was so fun to share in the happiness. He was also rattling off facts about miners and Pinochet over some heavy metal.

Now I know how the Munchkins felt.

CincyDem

(6,281 posts)
27. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is still dead.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:15 PM
Apr 2013


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Will Seth Myers have the guts to do a Chevy Chase on her.

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
29. And thank goodness for that!!!
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:41 PM
Apr 2013

If there ever was an evil bastard, that was Francisco Franco.

Make room Frankie, Maggie is on her way!!!

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
28. How come Ronnie's passing didn't cause this kind of reaction on this side of the pond?
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:39 PM
Apr 2013

He was no better than Thatcher.

Freddie

(9,231 posts)
30. We Americans are too f*cking polite
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:51 PM
Apr 2013

And have to show "respect for the dead" no matter how repugnant the person was in life. I find the British attitude refreshing. "Millions will be at her funeral--to make sure she's really dead."

raccoon

(31,089 posts)
44. I like the Brits' attitude too. Our MSM acted like Ronnie was a saint. In fact, I guess that's
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 08:37 AM
Apr 2013

when he was canonized.



Beacool

(30,244 posts)
46. I laughed at that last line.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 11:54 AM
Apr 2013

Europeans in general protest a lot more than we do here. I have family in Spain, France and Belgium. There's rarely a trip there that I don't encounter some kind of protest. Particularly in Spain and France.

We should do more of them here. maybe the weasels (politicians) would hear us more.

 

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)
52. Someone else said that it'll be the only 21-gun salute where the guns are fired at the coffin...
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 02:38 PM
Apr 2013

...to make sure she's really dead...

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
54. OK, that was funny too.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 06:13 PM
Apr 2013


The Daily Mail said that there'll be an honor guard from the Falklands at Thatcher's funeral, but that the president of Argentina wasn't invited. As if Cristina Kirchner would want to attend. What for, to spit on her grave?



 

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
31. because Dems quit criticizing his policies after he got Alzheimer's
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:55 PM
Apr 2013

for fear of being seen as mean.

When Reagan left office, he was the but of jokes and viewed as an inept boob. I remember the late nite comedians, even Jay Leno, having a field day with his idiotic 1992 RNC speech.

But the second he issued his announcement, Dems went silent. The GOP did not, and they launched the Reagan Legacy Project, a Grover Norquist astroturf effort to turn Reagan into their version of FDR or JFK. The myth-making and revisionism began and it's continued to the point that a lot of Dems buy into this idea that Reagan was some kind of bold leader. The insane idea that Reagan single-handedly won the Cold War, rather than luck out and get to preside over the collapse of the uSSR which began in the 70s, is now commonly accepted by too many.

Dems used to challenge Reagan's term - look no further than Al Franken 1995 book, which did a great job picking him apart. But no more.

By the time he died, the fictional Reagan was so entrenched, Dems were afraid to even slightly set the record straight on his joke of an administration, whose main accomplishments were gutting the middle class and sending the deficit through the roof.

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
47. I guess that the media and the politicians didn't want to seem as bashing an old, sick man.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 11:58 AM
Apr 2013

But that doesn't explain why people didn't go out on the streets as they have done now with Thatcher's passing. I think that we are just nor used to protesting in this country as much and as often as they do in Europe.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,149 posts)
45. I don't think that's a valid interpretation of her actions
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 10:19 AM
Apr 2013

She did raise the standard rate of VAT from 8% to 15% (which affects, proportionately, the poor more than the rich); she cut income tax, more for the rich than the poor (a more complicated picture, but she cut the top rate first from 83% to 60% at the start of term, and from 60% to 40% towards the end).

I don't think she ever tried to justify the VAT increase as 'supporting the NHS'. In what way do you think she did?

Response to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
41. I really like the way they're doing the charts these days.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 03:10 AM
Apr 2013

A Bach piece can become number one under the right circumstances.

This is perfect. I did a Facebook thing with the song.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
42. I hope we see the same reaction in America when Bush and Cheney croak.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 06:41 AM
Apr 2013

Good for the Brits. Truthfully, I really don't know much about Thatcher as she was before my time but it's clear that A LOT of people didn't like her and they feel no need to act otherwise just because she's dead. I find that sort of honesty refreshing.

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