“Fangs are sharpened only when there is something to gnaw on. Domestic hens have wings only for flapping. The same law is true for hens and for ideas: nourished on chopped meat cutlets they lose their teeth, like civilized, cutlet-eating man. Heretics are necessary to health; if there are no heretics, they should be invented.”
Yevgeniy Zamyatin.

“staking her into the coffin and burying her under a rose bush”

I call “dibs” for that job! And I’ll even provide my own pointy piece of wood and a spade.

*and* I won’t charge anyone £75 for doing it – my services will be provided on a purely pro bono basis…

When Boris Johnson asked him how he saw Britain’s future in Europe, his reply was : “Who now remembers or cares about Wessex and the kingdoms of the Heptarchy ?”

Mr Johnson paraphrased Mr Heseltine’s view as saying that “one day Britain will be to Europe as Wessex is to Britain: just folded in, forgotten, a fossilised relic of a former division, nothing but the quaintly named province of a single state.”

Hence the only good argument for giving her a state funeral is if the ceremony is televised and includes staking her into the coffin and burying her under a rose bush.

“Thatcher wasn’t a One Nation Conservative. And she hasn’t died. Good analysis otherwise…”

I did not say she was. Try reading what I said again, then maybe you will see that I said that “one nation Conservatism died with Thatcher.” Meaning she destroyed it.

And where did I say that Thatcher has died?

Sorry you can’t understand basic English.

One nation Conservatism died with Thatcher. It has long gone. Call me Dave can pretend he supports it, but the Tory party as a whole has become the English Republican party. Nutty as fruit cakes.

And like all bonkers right wingers she attracts an army of stupid people who would follow her over a cliff.

Any bets?

Nostalgia is all you’re going to get, I reckon – as in Michael Heseltine: Last Chance to See.

At least they didn’t want to tear-up/smash/burn/trample/send-into-the-wilderness any and every document or institution with the word ‘Royal’ in its title. Unlike the current bunch of treasonous so-and-sos. To the Tower with the lot of ‘em!