Roses are red
Maggie was blue
now she is dead
they're having a do.
They're airbrushing history
re-writing the past
Big Ben's falling silent
the flag's at half mast.
In a time of austerity
they've money to burn
for the pomp of her funeral
but the lesson we've learned
is they secretly know
she's not loved by the nation
her grave wouldn't be safe
so they plumped for cremation.
Tremendous stuff - enjoying discovering your work, if not the figures for that woman's funeral!
An also within all this political debate there is a really tight clever little poem that gets its point across. Well done Steve
Steve - so much emphasis has emerged from certain quarters about the expense of this event that it seemed financially viable to make comparisons. I'm surprised someone hasn't made something of "money to burn" and her cremation!!
How much of the £10 million was for protecting our monarch who attended the funeral?
Ps - enjoyed the poem and the observation at the end.
Blimey. M.C. I hadn't realised the whole charade was a tawdry marketing gimmick.
Has anyone told the Daily Mail? They won't be happy...
@Julian: what good things (plural mind)did she do?
Enjoyed this, Steve.
As a democrat (albeit left-of-centre) I have difficulty with the fact that we elected her 3 times.
It would be a mistake to assume the constituency of we poet-y types reflects the constituency of the nation.
Me too, Steve. I had not thought of that, the cremation bit. I don't want to speak ill of the dead but I do object to this hijacking of her funeral by desperate Toryboys, and particularly the cost in a time of austerity and cuts in benefits and obscenities such as the bedroom tax.
I do believe she did some good things (shock horror!) but unfortunately warmed to her theme. And how the hell can you have s state funeral for a corrupt prime minister who used her office to curry financial favours for her son (I believe one deal earned him £10m, ironically. He should have been arrested on his arrival and made to pay for this lot himself. Instead the Tory press are now touting her granddaughter (we have become a granddaughter) as Maggie's possible dynastic heir, because she read nicely in church. It's like something out of Life of Brian.
Ten million - against the billions she secured from the EEC/EC/EU in rebates. Not a bad deal..and they loved it beyond these shores -from whence comes our reputation and income.
Her funeral was a "sale" in marketing terms!
funny-love it tommy
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steve pottinger
Sun 23rd Jun 2013 20:56
Thanks for the kind words, Simon.