A sad day for her family - a sad for many who saw some of the good things that she did.

Perhaps all of those dancing on her grave who like to suggest
1. How the unions would have been controlled if she had not done it - Callaghan could not have done it
2. How would Labour have manged the transition from a manufacturing base to a service base given the rise in manufacturing influence from the Far East during this time.

It is a shame that John Smith died when he did because he probably could have made a good PM - certainly more gravitas than the youth who eventually rose to power

An honour guard is already forming to welcome her:

Augusto Pinochet
PW Botha
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Savile

Challenge Cup draw not to be radio'd by BBC 5 Live now.

That's her reach. Far far far into the wilderness of British sport.

It's sad the torrent of abuse coming from cloth cap gobes who deep down are angry at themselves for being too thick to take the masses of cash they stole in overtime and off to the south of Spain like the clever ones did.

Well that's all mention of benefits cuts pushed off the front pages now

Arthur Scargill has also just left his massive house to buy a suit, a pototo, some nails, a placard and some red paint.

A good day to bury bad news?

Bloody hell we all knew she was getting cremated it's going to be pretty warm where that bitch is going



Get yer banners out we're marching on London for the funeral

I hope Satan has a particularly deviant idea for how she can spend her eternity.

Not looking forward to my hangover tomorrow, though.

I'll sleep soundly tonight

I'll not forgive her for snatching my milk from my 7 year old hands, nor making me work for £29.50 for a 45 hour week or paying full poll tax out of said YTS "wage" even though I was 18 and still living at home.

I went on my first protest march against the poll tax in 1990 and have only done it once since and that was 2 weeks ago against the bedroom tax.

I was only 12 when the miners went on strike but I remember sending some pocket money to some charity or other to help the miners children and wondering what we'd do if she decided to upset the fishermen (dad was a filleter)!!

While not wishing to speak ill of the dead, I can't see many people grieving over her demise (me included).

WTF is Camoron scurrying back home? What can he do?

She's dead, he can't revive her. Maybe he hasn't been as well received in Europe as he'd hoped?

A lot of really hypocritical people on this thread. The kind that jump all over any kind of disrespect for the dead suddenly all over this as if they've won the lottery.

Thatcher as a politician you may not agree with, but FFS she was voted into power and she did a lot less damage to this country than the previous Labour governments and I don't see the lines of people on here counting down the days till the deaths of Blair and Brown.

He's got to devour her heart whilst it's still fresh in order to gain her power.

To think she was a northerner en all.

Post of the day.

Personally I think actively celebrating anyone's death is pretty classless.

Corrected for accuracy.

Mildly amused at the hordes of greying Brits spewing rabid schadenfreude all over the internet.

Love her or hate her she was a formidable woman and PM and I doubt anyone else could have done a better job in those times, certainly none of the muppets we've had since. The country was in a p*ss-poor state domestically and globally and declining fast, and whether you agree with them or not she made a lot of hard decisions that needed making. I understand why great swathes of the population despise her (leaving aside it being the trendy thing to do) but she also had many moments as a great PM.

We can't complain too hard; we voted her in three times, twice by sizeable majorities.

Wonder if my letter from her is worth something now?

See in BBC breaking News ticker that Thatcher has been passed fit for work by Atos.

I'd hardly class Grantham as "the North"

i know, continuing a labour policy. the shame.

I think the easiest way to completely destroy this point would be for you to list the damage that Bliar & Brown did then, for each one of the NuLaour -ups, we'll all contribute several items how the Thatcher government damaged Britain.

Don't be thick.
Who do you think laid the foundations for our unbalanced economy?
Who was it who was more than happy to see our industry go down the toilet?

You keep spouting 'It's all the fault of labour' even though you have been shown over and over again that it is BS.