That State Funeral Debate

There has been much debate about giving Margaret Thatcher a state funeral when she finally departs this world.Unsurprisingly the left see it as a political affront almost as if she would be trampling down on the graves of the coal miners from the 80's.

If you would asked me few years ago I would have been also eminently opposed to the proposition.But sometimes you mellow with age.Not that I have suddenly changed into a flag bearer for Thatcherism but instead indifference and does it really matter?

Some argue that the changes she made to British society warrant a display of horse drawn carriages thru the streets of London.Well to compare her to Wellington,Nelson or Churchill is stretching the point.

Read Quentin Letts this morning who accuses the left in the form of Guardian readers of a vengeful hatred of Mrs T.

On one level, these letters are merely the prattish words of small minds - people unable to accept that many of the battles of the Eighties were lost for good by Labour and that Lady T was a remarkable election winner whose titanic will reversed Britain's post-war decline and, incidentally, destroyed the class structure so loathed by the Left.

Letts' second level is that the left are a hateful bunch

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On immigration, Left-wingers have been exceptionally illiberal. Commentators and politicians who questioned the pro-immigration consensus were shouted down as racists.