Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

You two certainly qualify for the 'Grumpy old Gits' award. Haven't either of you got better things to do with your days? Go and fill in some potholes or something.

Government should be more responsible and spend tax payer's money somewhere useful.

Cameron will wake up, I hope.

Harry no better still crawl back into your own pot hole.

harry . if any labour MP turns up at parliament today they have put two fingers up to their voters . and should resign .she was a evil woman and a racist we now hear

ahoj, very good point. Strange how they find money for their causes.

'Gobshite Of The Year' contest in full swing then? Fred is clearly still out in front, GF is running a close second with TANK battling on with every post on his fight against racists. You couldn't make it up.

Chris..... your on the wrong board...wake up your sleep walking this isnt advfn.

Poor simple lad.

CC to use tax payers money to put her to rest is a national disgrace
disabled people are having benefits cut to save money and then they say
they are going to spend over 10 million for her funeral
if the cons want a big funeral then theyu should pay not use my TAXES
cameron is a liar we are all in it together what a bloody lie

let's knock this funeral nonsense on the head once and for all ...... the format of MT's funeral was determined a good number of years back, i think by parliament (could easily be checked) but certainly not by MT or her family ....... i think WSC had a full state funeral, but MT's is a step below that ...... clearly the queen thought highly enough of her to be attending the funeral in person

for myself, i'm not sure where i stand on the issue, though that indicates that i have no strong feelings one way or the other ..... it would be interesting to know whether the likes of palmerston were accorded a similar honour, and despite the rabid dogs, it is likely that history will also hold MT in high esteem

I am sure many jobless people will be very upset when they hear that £5-£10 million is being wasted and they have no job or future for themselves or their children. I will be surprised if they don't protest!

What about other MPs?

It appears that Cameron is happy to waste so much money for the funeral!!!

He is ignorant, in the same way as the other two main party leaders are.

£5m to £10m.......... more than that....... MPs told can claim up to £3,750 each to break holidays for today's Thatcher tributes.

cynic reports say she was a asian racist and he as been on tv this marning to say this

thatcher warned him about immigrants and warned him to keep them out of aussie
so your hero was a racist
to spend tax payers money to honour a racist so is it now alright to speak out like she did

Margaret Thatcher critics plan celebrations before funeral

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-critics-celebrations-funeral

I am sure Cameron understand that so many people hate her as they believe that she was responsible for many (probably most) problems in the country. He should stop wasting money.

We need spending on fundamental issues, like rails, roads, industry, etc, not wasting money for funeral.

A Thatcher state funeral would be bound to lead to protests

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/04/margaret-thatcher-state-funeral-protests

"CAMERON WAKE UP"

TANK - Just how thick are you? who broke this alleged story? which party again does this Australian represent? I know it's hard mate but activate what few brain cells you possess. Today is Wednesday, by Friday every left wing loon tune on the planet will have you convinced that Thatcher was planted on earth by Aliens, or was the daughter of Hitler.

I see from above that 'goldplunger' has become the king of cut and paste.

The EU rebate that Margaret Thatcher negotiated has netted us £75 billion so far.

There is speculation that Port Stanley in the Falklands will be renamed Port Margaret.

Would have saved a lot more if we hadn't joined in the first place Haystack and she only renegotiated the crap Heath signed when we joined.

Chris old mucker, have you seen this......... (doesnt do much for your and your freinds reputations) Good old Haystacks.

Margaret Thatcher accused of holding 'unabashedly racist' views

Australian foreign minister, Bob Carr, reveals former British PM warned him of challenge posed by immigration


Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 9 April 2013 23.49 BST



Australia's foreign minister, Bob Carr, said that Margaret Thatcher pleaded with him to ensure Sydney did not 'end up like Fiji'. Photograph: Achmad Ibrahim/AP


Margaret Thatcher has been accused by the Australian foreign minister of having held "unabashedly racist" views after he revealed that the late former British prime minister had warned him of the challenge posed by immigration from Asia.

Bob Carr, who served as premier of New South Wales between 1995 and 2005, said that Thatcher pleaded with him to ensure Sydney did not "end up like Fiji" where citizens of Indian heritage formed a majority until a coup in 1987.

Carr, whose wife is of Malaysian origin, spoke of his surprise at Thatcher's remarks. The senator told the Lateline programme on ABC TV: "I recall one conversation I had with her in her retirement where she said something that was unabashedly racist, where she warned Australia – talking to me with Helena [his wife] standing not far away – against Asian immigration, saying that if we allowed too much of it we'd see the natives of the land, the European settlers, overtaken by migrants."

Carr expressed astonishment when Thatcher drew an analogy with Fiji, where the Indo-Fijian community formed a majority of the population in 1970 when it achieved independence from Britain. The community, descendants of labourers who travelled to the former British colony to work on sugar plantations in the late 19th century, has fallen to just over 38% in the last two decades after a 1987 coup. In 2000 Mahendra Chaudhry, the first Indo-Fijian prime minister, was taken hostage in another coup.

Carr said: "I was astonished. Helena fortunately was out of earshot. I remember one thing she [Thatcher] said as part of that conversation. She said: 'You will end up like Fiji. I like Sydney but you can't allow the [Asian] migrants … to take over otherwise you will end up like Fiji where the Indian migrants have taken over."

The foreign minister added: "I was so astonished I don't think I could think of an appropriate reply. I think we moved on to other subjects pretty quickly."

Carr, a Labour senator who was appointed foreign minister after the resignation of the former prime minister Kevin Rudd last year, made clear that he still respected Thatcher on the grounds that she challenged the centre-left to modernise.

He said: "She produced a realignment of politics. She forced my side of politics, the social democrat parties, to think more deeply about the role and function of the state, of the public sector. [She] forced Labour parties around the world to consider whether government could remotely pretend to be the answer to many of the problems it was assumed it could be. I also think she was right in joining Reagan and denouncing the old Soviet Union as an evil dictatorship."

Carr's remarks contrasted with warm praise for Thatcher from Julia Gillard, Australia's British-born and first woman prime minister. Speaking in Beijing, she said: "Her service as the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom was a history-making achievement. Her strength of conviction was recognised by her closest supporters and her strongest opponents."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-accused-racist-views?CMP=twt_gu