'No state funeral' for Thatcher (She is still alive)

The Scotsman.com ^ | 8-9-2006 | Staff

[Colonel Kangaroo]

'No state funeral' for Thatcher TONY BLAIR has ruled out the possibility of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher being given a state funeral.

A spokeswoman for Number 10 said: "All that we can confirm is that there are no such plans and it is not appropriate to comment further."

Mr Blair's stance on funeral arrangements for Lady Thatcher, 80, was revealed after a reported protest by Rosie Cooper, MP for Lancashire West, over reports that civil servants in the Cabinet Office were drawing up detailed plans for a state funeral for the ex-Tory leader. Miss Cooper wrote to Number 10 saying that some of her constituents were appalled at the idea.

John McTernan, Mr Blair's political secretary, replied saying that he could confirm that there were no such plans.

Tory MPs have accused Mr Blair of using his stance on Lady Thatcher's funeral arrangements to appease left-wing Labour MPs.

Lady Thatcher, who is reported to be in good health, was prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

This article: http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1156202006

Last updated: 09-Aug-06 12:08 BS

[Centurion2000]

'No state funeral' for Thatcher TONY BLAIR has ruled out the possibility of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher being given a state funeral.

Somebody's stepping on their crank big time. I think this is going to really piss off the queen and future king William.

[Howlin]

[Howlin]

LOL!

Actually, he never did one.

[nuconvert]

I hope you're right.

[Howlin]

and US Presidents help with their's starting when they leave office

They are planned as soon as they are elected.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Geeze, from the title of this article, I thought Lady Thatcher had died!

Same here! Clicked on this thread and thought the same.

But I suppose that from the MSM, Lady Thatcher is dead and Fidel Castro is alive ........ go figure?

[Centurion2000]

How would you like people making funeral arrangements for you while your alive!

I guess it would make someone kinda feel like a Pharoah ... those guys were big into funeral planning.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Knighting someone like that shows what the priorities of the UK has become.

The UK needed another twenty years of Margaret Thatcher. I wish we had her as PM today for the fight we're in now.

[ken5050]

Thanbks for the pic...The free world's first understanding that sometimes the use of force was necessary, and inevitable, was when she sent the troops to retake the Falklands..

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Me too. Finally exhaled.

[Prost1]

A Great Man and a Great Lady!

(Note to the Taoists - a borrowed phrase.)

[Irish Rose]

For a minute there, I was wondering if Margaret Thatcher was still alive. I was glad to read that she's in good health. But decreeing that Thatcher will have no state funeral is a classless move from Blair.

[TWfromTEXAS]

i have read somewhere on free republic that very few PM are given state funerals and a few of those have refused it. i believe, but am not positive, that tradition dictates you be a war time PM.

[ut1992]

I'm glad you posted this picture. This was my background picture on my laptop on several months following THE President's funeral. I still get goosebumps every time I see it.

[ken5050]

If you have the time, can you search and post a link to Thatcher's eulogy of Reagan? It's got to be somewheres

[mware]

Damn I near passed out when I saw that title. I thought something had happen to the Grand Old Lady.

[mware]

Churchill got one as I recall.

[JanetteS]

Ugh! Great photo but it started the water works. There are not many in the public eye that have earned the title of Lady. Margaret Thatcher earned that title and I'll always appreciate her class, dignity and backbone of steal.

[Mrs.Liberty]

Howlin..if I may?

http://www.symbols.net/georgelog/thatcher/

[Hunble]

Churchill got one as I recall

Darn right, and I am old enough, that I watched it!