Posted on 04/09/2013 6:31:54 PM PDT by Steelfish
'No Gushing Hysteria, Just Quiet, Dignified Respect': The Sombre But Patriotic Mood In Lady Thatcher's Constituency Michael Deacon visits Finchley, where the constituents Margaret Thatcher served for 33 years are paying their respects patriotically but quietly.
By Michael Deacon1 09 Apr 2013
The scene in the office of the local Conservative Association said it all. Inside, a large but demure portrait hung on the wall; beneath it, on a shelf, stood a little row of framed photos of her smiling or cutting a cake. At either side of the photos were vases containing little Union flags. Draped beneath the shelf, dangling against the radiator, was a string of bunting. Outside, just a few bouquets.
Finchley, the constituency she served for 33 years, from 1959 to 1992, was paying its respects to Baroness Thatcher in a manner she would have surely approved: patriotically but quietly, without extravagance or hysteria. This was nothing like the instantaneous gushing that swept the country upon the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Such an outpouring may have been suitable for the Princess, who was scarcely averse to outpourings of emotion herself; but for Baroness Thatcher, a woman who embodied the old middle-class virtues of thrift and modesty, something quiet and dignified felt much more fitting.
No shrines. No heaps of flowers in the streets and parks. No huddles of the weeping and bewildered. Just ordinary, local people filing to the Conservative Association office to sign their names in the book of Of course, we know that not all of Britain has marked her passing with such dignity. For those who insist that Left-wing ideology is motivated above all by compassion for others, this must be a difficult week. News of the death was greeted with street parties in Glasgow and Brixton.
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Sickos who celebrated her death all deserve the great collapse that is coming that will leave them in great anguish. Their souls are rotten, their minds putrid. They are zombies. They will soon be the walking dead - resurrected to hellish ends instead of the freedom she fought for on their behalf.
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