Thatcher Dies

[therealjr]

I'm at work tomorrow or else I think I would watch the funeral.
I want to make sure she really is gone!!!!!

[Slacker]

my point was that if Labour were still in power chances are they would have dumped her on a rubbish heap rather than pay for a state funeral.
But the tories still see her as some sort of goddess and therefore will give her what they perceive as a fitting send off.
If Labour saw fit not to do that for one of their own as I say that is up to them

Tories claim to be the party of REDUCING public spending........................'til it suits them. Could have built a leisure centre for that money

[Pete]

Not much of a turnout by protesters - I suppose it's easy to criticise from a keyboard - entirely another thing to make the effort to go there.

[Slacker]

The Thatcher years were the nearest we came to a police state with striking miners having their cars stopped and their movement restricted so the police presence at the funeral was appropriate. With the likelihood of anyone carrying a banner or shouting something getting arrested plus the high cost of getting to London that's probably the reason many didn't go.

[therealjr]

Could have built a leisure centre for that money

Ok so presumably you are claiming that the cost of today was £9m

Now let me qualify this by saying I'm no fan of Maggie's or the Tories but Slacker here's the challenge.
Care to explain exactly HOW today has cost £9m?

[Pete]

I bet the last week was a feeding friendly for the deliverers - bet they planned, not just as contingency, but also a chance to skim a bit off the top.

Cameron probably thought he could get some kudos from it, but I bet he didn't/won't.

Politics...

'kin 'ell.

[Slacker]

Ok so presumably you are claiming that the cost of today was £9m

Now let me qualify this by saying I'm no fan of Maggie's or the Tories but Slacker here's the challenge.
Care to explain exactly HOW today has cost £9m?

How would I know, not my figures?

[therealjr]

So you are saying that because someone else has said that the cost is £9m (and conveniently thats the cost of the proposed new sports centre) you are prepared to believe them and re-post it but you haven't got a clue a) if it's true or b) exactly what that cost is made up of?

Do you appreciate how ridiculous that sounds?

[Slacker]

Ok so presumably you are claiming that the cost of today was £9m

Now let me qualify this by saying I'm no fan of Maggie's or the Tories but Slacker here's the challenge.
Care to explain exactly HOW today has cost £9m?

Fly quoted the figure (£10M) I just pointed out a better spend. Assume much of the money was security

[therealjr]

Security?
That presumably then would be the police and the armed forces?
Who we pay anyway regardless of what they are doing.
So thats a fixed cost.

Anything else?

[Pete]

See my post above 

[Slacker]

Security?
That presumably then would be the police and the armed forces?
Who we pay anyway regardless of what they are doing.
So thats a fixed cost.

Anything else?

Overtime and the fact that they are not elsewhere doing their duties, £10M was the figure most media are estimating. We should no more when official figures are released

[therealjr]

I'd agree that they could spend their time better (just the same as the policemen and women of Chesterfield can also spend their time more productively than policing oh I don't know something like a march on May 6th    ) but in monetary terms thats not a cost is it?

[Pete]

Is it over now? Funny how something like this can dominate the news and political debate so strongly, yet can slip away in a day.

[Pint Pot]

Ding Dong the witch is Gone :-) :-)