UK: Thatcher funeral cost taxpayers $5.6 million

Associated Press ^ | Apr 25, 2013 2:33 PM EDT

[Olog-hai]

The British government says former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral cost taxpayers £3.6 million ($5.6 million), mostly for security. …

Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said Thursday that Thatcher’s family was paying the cost of the undertaker and flowers for the funeral. …

[Olog-hai]

If not for the leftist louts, then no need for that kind of security.

[massmike]

UK: Thatcher funeral cost taxpayers $5.6 million

...or as much as ONE MOOshelle Obama vacation.......

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Some Britons balked at the grand ceremonial funeral with military honors held for a politician whose legacy divides the country.

That's right AP, piss on her grave right up until the end.

[allmendream]

And Thatcher’s life saved the UK BILLIONS!

[Tax-chick]

I’d much rather give $5.6 million to security personnel than to the kind of people who make the security necessary.

Instead of saying, “It’s awful they spent that much money,” Brits should be saying, “It’s awful that our population includes so many rotten people.”

[Little Ray]

Good. At lest it wasn’t spent on welfare and NHS.

[Kozak]

How many BILLIONS in taxes did she save them?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

$400 Million USD to bury President Reagan. *SNIF*

$5 Million Pounds to bury Princess Diana.

$9 Million Euros for Pope John Paul II

$40 Million USD for JFK

$600 Million USD (in today’s dollars) for Alexander the Great

[wideawake]

So that's $0.10 per Brit.

Or roughly one ten thousandth of how much more they'd be paying in taxes right now had she not been Prime Minister.

[LibLieSlayer]

She saved your asses and all that you are... show a little appreciation... you muzzie loving communist ingrates (for the left of Britain only).

LLS

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Instead of saying, “It’s awful they spent that much money,” Brits should be saying, “It’s awful that our population includes so many rotten people.””

Bingo!

[skeeter]

AP finally aknowleges Thatcher’s funeral.

[Olog-hai]

We shouldn’t have to make such a choice, of course.

[faithhopecharity]

no big deal

that’s just the cost of a couple nights in Paris hotels for VP Biden, or another fancy resort vacation for his boss

[stuartcr]

???

[hummingbird]

"Some Britons balked at the grand ceremonial funeral with military honors held for a politician whose legacy divides the country."

Ingrates...idiots...Stay classy "Some Britons".

Is that correct - "Britons" ?

[cripplecreek]

I guarantee that kind of security won’t be necessary for Bill Clinton’s funeral. Conservatives won’t have any interest in disrupting it.

[Little Ray]

The money went to honor a hero of the UK. I wasn’t thrown down the the toilets of NHS and social welfare.

[stuartcr]

Do you think she wanted that much spent on her, or to help those in need?

[areukiddingme1]

I would give a 100 times that to have someone with her courage, strength, wisdom, and fortitude in our white house right now. Someone that at least loves our country.