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Looks like she got the respect she deserved.
From Edinburgh
In this one the Liverpool Council draped the screen and refused to show it.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)HomeboyHombre
(46 posts)And the ones that got the most from Thatcher are "too busy" to show up . . .
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)They ALL came out to honor her.
olddots
(10,237 posts)when their depends sogged out.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)That is a stunning visual for the legacy seekers.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)The last photo in the sequence here shows the actual procession: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22179697
It's not that surprising Leeds didn't have anyone turn out to watch in on an outside screen. The North and Thatcher have hated each other for decades. There are pictures from what one village (used ot be a mining village) did today here: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/04/17/extraordinary-pictures-as-goldthorpe-re-enacts-thatchers-funeral/
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)hattiebrett Hattie Brett 16h
Wow this is the only person waiting to Thatcher's procession on the strand. Whatever you thought of her, bit sad. pic.twitter.com/g82Au82NVJ
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)Meanwhile coffeebody notes the lack of crowds near Charing Cross station:
Policing the Funeral
Police struggle to control the emotional crowds outside Charing Cross Station
Sent via GuardianWitness
By coffeebody
17 April 2013, 09:10
https://witness.guardian.co.uk/assignment/516e3c1de4b049aa25e5e87b/278064
muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)That's also at the bit where the coffin went in an unremarkable car from Westminster to an intermediate church, which was where they put it on the horse-drawn carriage. Unsurprisingly, people preferred to watch the section with the pomp and circumstance, not the bit that looks like any other funeral.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/17/lady-thatcher-funeral-live-blog
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)SamKnause
(13,041 posts)What a contrast when compared to the turn out for the late President Chavez.
This makes me happy !
The world needs thousands of people like the great Hugo Chavez !!!!
malaise
(267,800 posts)Beacool
(30,244 posts)in London there were plenty of people who gathered to watch the funeral procession go by.
tblue
(16,350 posts)???
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)Beacool
(30,244 posts)They seem to be watching respectfully and taking pics.
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)These people just wanted pictures or to be part of the event. Can't tell you how many "liberals" I follow on Twitter who tweeted RIP on the day she died because they saw that movie a few years ago. Completely clueless.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Here's another picture from Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, where an effigy of Lady Thatcher in a coffin was burned together with a sofa and the word "scab".
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)They must have a more professional news media than we have..... I know BBC is one of the better places to get US news.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)B. Bunny, "It is to laugh."
Exactly the way that horrid woman deserved to be "remembered."