Mrs T still dominating....
13 April 2013
...the headlines in the run up to her funeral.
...the headlines in the run up to her funeral.
Thoughts are turning to how she should be honoured.
Two ideas are particularly appropriate:
Firstly to rename Heathrow Airport - Margaret Thatcher Airport (better than calling Boris Island airport by that name). There is a precedent in the USA with JFK Airport among others and for our most internationally renown and admired Prime Minister there is nothing more appropriate. There is also a nice bit of poetic justice in having her feeble minded detractors pay homage to Mrs T when going off on holiday.
Secondly to rename Port Stanley in The Falklands, Port Margaret. It would infuriate the Argentinians (and therefore the Foreign Office won't approve...) but stuff them, this is a matter for the Falkland Islanders.
I am not so sure about statues in public places, that is just not significant enough in this day and age. Fine for the days before cameras and when few could see paintings of great figures but today it is a bit passe'.
A sudden thought.....
Perhaps Dover could be renamed 'Port Thatcher' in her honour - now that would really be a good modern idea, the White Cliffs of Thatcher has a real ring about it.....
- Barry, I have to salute your style! There is a danger however that everytime you are stuck in a queue at the airport you could be reminded of the dole queues of the 80s and 90s and the cliffs, of course, are a crumbling relic of the past. :))
- what a silly idea,boris island has two hopes of being built,and they are no hope and bob hope.and 1 of then passed away a few years back.
- Why not have the incidences of 'mass fainting';non contagious and of relatively short duration, that have occurred at odd intervals around the globe recognised as "Thatcheritis" by the WHO?
- She was controversial when alive and still controversial now she's dead. The cost of the funeral is a absolute disgrace especially as we're supposed to be broke she should have had a nice green funeral, cardboard coffin, no frills and baked slowly. After that the crematorium could be named after her, a fitting tribute and one that would satisfy all sides.
- There's something rather unseemly about the idea of renaming, say, Heathrow airport. What's it going to renamed to - Thatcher terminal 1?
Very poor taste.
Instead of looking forward it seems that the Tories are determined to look back and not move on and grow the economy. So instead of faffing around with ridiculous name changes why don't they just do something to make a tangible difference to our economy and build a new runway at Heathrow instead of dreaming up hair-brained schemes which will do no good whatsoever. - what a spiffing good idea philip,we could have a brown and blair terminal at gatwick with 3 runways instead of 1.
- Deary me, I must be blind, we all must be blind. The answer to the renaming question, and the point of doing something about this locally, is staring us in the face.
As Her admirers are always saying that She was head and shoulders above all those about Her, and did cast a long shadow. What else is in the town that possesses such characteristics?
A glance at the top of any page on this site will reveal all. - Barry
Maybe we could rename the channel tunnel, Margret thatches hole.
That went bust to just like the financial system ,
and she was part responsible for both ! - tom with a face like that,a 20 meter statue of her face set on the cliffs of dover above the ferry port would make a good deterant to the asylum seekers.
- Barry, next you'll be claiming St. Margaret's at Cliff is dedicated to Mrs. Thatcher.
But perhaps yes, I can see where you're coming from: the invertebrate Government needs something to go by to keep the Iron Lady's reputation in vogue. It can't stand up by itself, now, can it! - Well Lady Thatcher has passed on and has not even been laid to rest, and Prime Minister Dave is off to the Bundeskanzler Frau Angela Merkel in search of a new figure that will shield the Tory party from a resounding electoral defeat.
If Dave can come crawling back waving a sheet of paper bearing some exemptions of foreign rule over Britain, then Frau Merkel will become the new Iron Lady to win over hearts and minds to the Tory cause.