Maggie's Funeral

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

This will dominate rolling news all day of course, I'll be checking in on events to see if anything kicks off and to sneer at the fawning tributes.

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[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

[jamesx101]

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[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Is it even legal to bury toxic waste in the ground like that?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Baroness Thatcher's granddaughter, Amanda, gives the first reading from Ephesians 6. 10-18, saying:
"We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

Iron-y Lady, tee hee.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Phil Mackie tweets: A man who was (loudly) trying to arrange a protest on his phone has been detained by police in London's Trafalgar Square.

1203: Gerry Holt BBC News
One protester with a megaphone is speaking to the crowd, although it is hard to hear what he has to say as he is drowned out by booing. An impromptu sing-song of Land of Hope and Glory receives a cheer, as does the raising of a banner saying: "Margaret Thatcher. She put the Great back into Great Britain." The pro-Thatcher contingent appears to be ruling the roost here.

[IrishWorker]

Belfast this morning.

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As our Artist once again find themselves hiking the an Sliabh Dubh (Black Mountain) Béal Feirste (Belfast), we make the following statement available for your perusal.

Gael Force Art
Margaret Thatcher - The Real Criminal
Wednesday 17 April 2013

‘A crime is a crime is a crime’ - These words were uttered by the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, when she referred to the blanket-men on protest in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh.
Under her command the Blanket-men and Armagh women POW’s were subjected to inhuman and barbaric treatment over a long period of time while she was British Prime Minister.

After over four long years of criminal violence and abuses of human rights upon them, the Blanket-men in 1980 were forced over the edge into the last resort - the hunger-strike to the death in a desperate attempt to be not only recognised as Irish Republican Soldiers but perhaps more importantly as human beings.

As Bobby Sands said on the first day of his hungerstrike in March 1981 “I have considered all the arguments and tried every means to avoid what has become the unavoidable : it has been forced upon me and my comrades by four and a half years of stark inhumanity”.

During the Summer of 1981 ten blanketmen inside Long Kesh concentration camp were starved to death at the hands of Margaret Thatcher. A further thirteen men lay on death beds at the hands of Margaret Thatcher. Hundreds more men and women within the prison would be left psychologically damaged for the remainder of their lives at the hands of Margaret Thatcher. The first blanketman, Ciaran Nugent, along with Pat McGeown, Matt Devlin, Brendan ‘the Dark’ Hughes, Alex Comerford and Sean McKenna, to name but a few, would die prematurely at the hands of Margaret Thatcher.

When the Hunger strike ended in October 1981, the English press praised Thatcher for her ‘magnificent obstinacy’ and on inflicting a humiliating defeat upon the I.R.A. Margaret Thatcher believed this herself and crowed that the hunger strike was the I.R.A..’s last card.
In retrospect she was so wrong - the hunger strike was to be their ace card. Today, historians view the blanket protests and subsequent hunger strike as an epic clash of armor between the ‘Iron lady’ and the ‘Iron men’ - and the ‘Iron men won.

By 1983 all the five demands which the blanketmen and Armagh women had fought so long for had been secured, effectively resulting in the reinstatement of political status. Furthermore, the hungerstrike of 1981 was to have far reaching consequences, becoming a watershed in the Anglo/Irish conflict, transforming the whole political landscape in Ireland and almost consuming Thatcher herself along with her war cabinet at Brighton in October 1984. To add insult to injury, from her perspective, her foreign secretary, Geoffrey Howe, had to explain to her that she had not come out the victor of the 1981 hungerstrike and therefore must sign the Anglo/Irish Agreement in November 1985 to halt the rise of Support for the Republican movement. For her, it was a bitter pill to swallow.

In 1990 Margaret Thatcher was betrayed by her own cabinet , Julius Caesar style in an act of political assassination and forced to resign from office. she had been stabbed in the back in the same way she had stabbed others - poetic justice some might say, and in a strange twist of fate and circumstance, she remains THE REAL CRIMINAL both in Ireland and in Britain,while others she branded as criminals, Bobby Sands and Nelson Mandela included,have become international icons of freedom and integrity.

And so we in Gael Force Art believe Margret Thatchers epitaph should read:- THATCHER THE REAL CRIMINAL

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gael-Force-Art/174957995982116

[John Lennin]

£10 million for a f*cking funeral, this is ridiculous!
Witch stays witch, even if she is dead.

[Brutus]

We should just stick her down an abandoned mine and leave it to rot.

[Brutus]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/17/margaret-thatcher-funeral-turning-my-back

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Ah, you can always rely on the SWP to show up with a lot of lovingly crafted signs

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[GiantMonkeyMan]

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New tradition to replace bonfire night? :thumbup1:

[Brutus]

Did anyone see frankie boyle's twitter commentary? it was hilarious.

[IrishWorker]

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Tribute to Airey Neive and Maggie from the Derry INLA. For all those who dont know Airey Neive, Google the piece of excrement.