While listening to some local radio station today, (Im in Welwyn city of gardens). I heard that "Thatchers son is lost without her"... I actually spat coffee and almost choked.
An unfortunate choice of words.

Or possibly carefully chosen

For those too young to remember

Has anyone checked to see if she's been resurrected yet?

I believe she's rusting in peace...

Yay, woohoo, pass the lager.

Wait, we are still celebrating the death of a frail, ill, old lady, right?

Yep.

I cant understand how people will be having a celebration in central london on saturday to rejoice at her death . I wonder how many on the left and everybody else will feel when Tony Blair leaves this planet .I suspect the left will forgive him (iraq war)and give him a pass . Double standards

If I'm still around I'll have no idea what they'll be saying. I won't be able to hear it over the party noise...

I'm amazed how many of today's yoof, who have no idea who is in Parliament now, are outraged by someone who left Parliament before they were born.

The pot/kettle award goes to........... Glenda's a woman?

No, I think most people on the left hate Blair nearly as much as Thatcher.

A cracker! No prizes for guessing whose side the speaker John Bercow is on then....

I'm off to watch Question Time - where from? Finchley

Should be very lively!

The hatred for that woman is nothing to do with which party she represented or that she was a woman , it was the decisions she made and how she made them.

There will never be again or ever has been a PM that is held in such utter contempt by so many for so long.

She was an evil cow.

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I think you will find Tony Blair is in the running for that .

Anyone else remember the ERM fiasco and Black Wednesday when that Arch Eurosceptic Maggie took us into the ERM? Then when we got a royal hiding we had to leave with our tail between our legs some £3 billion poorer?

Or when interest rates hit 15%? Consequently UK home repossessions totalled 129,000 in 1990-91

As for the Thatcher boom, it turns out Economists say it was all a pipe dream, it was just oil revenue, and the cash from the sale of the Nationalised industries, which means our manufacturing base was lost for no good reason. http://econ.economicshelp.org/2010/02/thatcher-revolution-1980s.html

In 2002 Labour had reduced the National debt to 29% of GDP (From around 44% under Tories)
By 2009 the UK National debt stood at 56.8% of GDP (Mainly to d owith the rescuing of the various banks)
In 2011 it had reached 68%
As of Q1 of 2012 it has reached 86.8% Rather than cutting any deficit, things are now worse than under Labour in the late 70s.

Still as they say, there are lies, damned lies and statistics

The Railways were nationalised not through political dogma, but because the "big four" Rail companies were basically bankrupt, and in those days before the roads transported most goods, it was an economic necessity that they keep running.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Act_1947

The railways are good example of demonstrating that free market economics are not always successful, as in the rail mania boom many competing companies opened rail lines often very close to each other (as anyone who has ever been to Catford will testify!)

Got to admire Glenda... earns all her money in films, buys the big house in Hampstead, and once she's set up for life *then* she decides to be a nice visible socialist... always good to see someone who sticks to her principles.

Or revered by so many for so long.

Not sure about that - plenty have been unwaveringly keen on Churchill for a bit longer than Maggie.

Are you feeling ok, Brewster - this is a most un-Brewster-like post!

Ah Winnie..another Tory with a successful war under their belt..

Hmmm. We're going off topic here, but Churchill's record was not exactly unblemished either. Everyone has their faults...

He wasn't too popular with miners either - they're a hard crowd to please

Or dockyardies... or the Anzacs..

Or bomber Harris, at least the (lost) boys do now have a memorial!

Harris took the full backlash of the Government policy for Bomber command and is, to this day, hated by so many. Chuchill never made any public comment on the matter but through the war knew exactly what was going on, supported the policy and encouraged its continuation. Harris refused his war end knighthood due to Chirchill keeping quiet and then left the UK (Recently released documents have proven Churchills involvement).

Yet today one name stands for all that is British whilst the other goes down in history as a butcher.

They used to have to guard the Harris memorial as it was so often vandelised.

Silly boy. I hope he enjoys life on the dole.

Sounds a bit as though he had a few underlying issues going on...!

Don't fret too much, I'm sure it will all die down soon.

It's not like us Brits have a history of celebrating someones death, burning an effigy of them and letting off fireworks each year is it?

He is in his fifty's and was a Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police and will recieve the full pension,sorry to burst the bubble but can't see him waiting to sign on for job seekers allowance whilist begging for forgiveness.

Quite the opposite, he will be inundated with offers