A few years ago, whilst doing a weekend of workshops in Leeds, I talked to someone who was part of a club which took contributions to hold a street party in the event of Maggie's death. After ten years that had to stop taking contributions because they had £16,000 to run their street party!
There will be events at the expense of the public to mark her funeral -- but they're not necessarily going to be as reverential as the Tory right wish them to be.
Privatise Thatcher's State Funeral
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