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April had been cruel - until this lunchtime.

: lil_shepherd; April 8th, 2013

Current news that Margaret Thatcher has died has been greeted on my facebook flist with such comments as "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" (in half a dozen places) and "Thank God the bitch has gone!" and "There is a God..." and "Good bloody riddance!"

I am afraid my own was "Good!" and to wonder if anyone/everyone on

flick's death list game had her and how many points they get.

And a final word from another of my flist

"The question now is whether TPTB are fool enough to try to make anything large and public about her passing.

I hope not. I really hope not. It may become more large and public than they want."

May go and find out what's trending on Twitter.

Tags: obituary, only not

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blamebrampton

2013-04-08 12:23 pm (UTC)

You make me very much want to know exactly what Iain Banks is thinking now.

smtfhw

2013-04-08 12:29 pm (UTC)

Must admit the news cheered me enormously...

muninnhuginn

2013-04-08 12:54 pm (UTC)

I just bought an MP3 of Elvis Costello's "Tramp the Dirt Down". I rather like the idea of it becoming number 1 by the end of the week. (Not EC's best track, but I always enjoyed the sentiment.)

lil_shepherd

2013-04-08 12:56 pm (UTC)

I've already seen it twice on Facebook.

muninnhuginn

2013-04-08 07:17 pm (UTC)

The more, the merrier.

were_gopher

2013-04-08 12:58 pm (UTC)

That's a point for me in the game.

verrucaria

2013-04-08 02:45 pm (UTC)

The sad thing, though, is that people find annoying women more annoying than (equally) annoying men (cf. less dancing on Reagan's grave). Which is unfair.

lil_shepherd

2013-04-08 02:47 pm (UTC)

Agreed.

Though Reagan was not President of my country, while I endured Thatcher for far too long. (And I did make rude comments about him, just not in public at that point.)

verrucaria

2013-04-08 02:48 pm (UTC)

Or the dancing on Reagan's grave was less personally disrespectful to him.

smtfhw

2013-04-08 04:13 pm (UTC)

Personally, I was just as glad to see the back of him (though less personally invested in it as I'm not American - but I had put up with life in the UK under Thatcher - so much so that I actually buggered off to Europe for 10 years). I like to think there's a special hell reserved for the pair of 'em to be honest...

starcat_jewel

2013-04-08 08:25 pm (UTC)

Are there still many people over there who worship Thatcher the way Reagan is worshiped here? Because our right wing has him propped up as a figurehead behind which to push all sorts of things that Reagan himself would never have supported (based on his public statements). And because nobody here looks at history, they get away with it.

lil_shepherd

2013-04-08 08:29 pm (UTC)

Short answer is 'Yes, mainly in the government.'

verrucaria

2013-04-08 08:31 pm (UTC)

Reaganomics is a religion here (except among those who disliked Reagan of course). To be honest, though, I haven't been to the U.K., so I have no idea what the general feelings toward Margaret Thatcher are there, so I guess my comparison was flawed from the start...

lil_shepherd

2013-04-08 08:32 pm (UTC)

Not at all.

nineveh_uk

2013-04-08 05:36 pm (UTC)

I am hoping that though TPTB in Westminster might be stupid, the police and security services are not completely stupid and know full well what a state funeral would mean in terms of security. It certainly wouldn't convey any image of a uniting national figure...

starcat_jewel

2013-04-08 08:22 pm (UTC)

Comment from elseNet to the effect that #NowThatcherIsDead is trending on Twitter -- only it's typed without caps, and thus has been upsetting some Cher fans. :-)

madfilkentist

2013-04-08 10:34 pm (UTC)

I am really disgusted by some of the celebratory comments I've seen.

lil_shepherd

2013-04-09 04:36 am (UTC)

You didn't live through her 'reign' here. Thatcher was one of the most hated figures in 20th Century Britain, and the hagiography has already started in the media as we all knew it would.

We will speak ill of the dead.

As someone wrote yesterday, we didn't see anyone objecting to the nasty comments about Hugo Chavez all over the media. I am no fan of Chavez, but what's sauce for the goose...

Edited at 2013-04-09 05:33 am (UTC)

tattercoats

2013-04-09 11:15 am (UTC)

Oh! That was me! :-)

I'm treading eggshells hoping that my Muses aren't going to require a song of me on this... it's something I really don't want to write.

Yes, I did my growing up under her reign as well. I won't be mourning.

lil_shepherd

2013-04-09 11:56 am (UTC)

I knew who I grabbed it from, of course, but wasn't sure if you wanted to be identified - considering the reaction to posts that expressed anything less than sorrow at Maggie's death were getting from some quarters.

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