tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post854897791682776224..comments2024-03-17T22:59:24.273+00:00Comments on Peter Household - things that have interested me: I reminisce about Thatcher and give OK to partiesPeter Householdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04537256881744236389noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-31153954930375883982013-04-10T13:44:31.959+01:002013-04-10T13:44:31.959+01:00Thanks for permission to party at her demise Pete,...Thanks for permission to party at her demise Pete, I wasn't sure if I was allowed to!!!<br /><br />I agree that a discussion of her impact as a leader and a person is appropriate, all the fawning the BBC and others are doing definitely needs balancing out with a proper discussion of the good (can't actually think of a single thing) and bad (everything else) she did. However, you're "partying" over the death of an old woman who - as a political presence - ceased to be relevant several years ago. How is your life any better today for her death than it was on Monday before the news broke? What are you celebrating? She seemingly passed away into oblivion peacefully, so presumably it's not the actual dying, she wasn't in any sense a live player in public life for the last few years, so it's not that we won't see her anymore. She had a family who are presumably grieving, but they were never active in politics (disagreeable though they may be) so I assume you don't have a beef with them so won't be celebrating their grief. What then? All this grave-dancing does is diminish the people doing it and give the Tory press the chance to say "Look at how these lefties behave, they're scum" (see the UK Daily M*il today). It'll be the same at the funeral. Why not just let them get on with it, show we're not as spiteful and bitter as she was, and protest about the government we're stuck with now?Nogginnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-23050451682834060922013-04-10T08:36:18.574+01:002013-04-10T08:36:18.574+01:00That Jonathan Freedland piece was very interesting...That Jonathan Freedland piece was very interesting. This one by Glenn Greenwald is equally so, and expands on the dangers of not criticising Thatcher: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette<br /><br />I had forgotten that your dad had died so soon after Thatcher's resignation.Albert Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13425879228532864295noreply@blogger.com