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Margaret Thatcher Funeral & Trafalgar Square Party Compared

Domino Effect | 17.04.2013 08:12 | Public sector cuts

In contrast to the 2-3,000 that the BBC confirmed attended the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, 9am 17 April the BBC are reporting "one or two" members of the public gathering to pay their respects to Margaret Thatcher on Fleet Street, and "well over a thousand" gathered around St Paul's...

In contrast to the (under-estimated) 2-3,000 that the BBC confirmed attended the Margaret Thatcher Death Party in Trafalgar Square, 8:50am 17 April the BBC are reporting "one or two" members of the public gathering to pay their respects to Margaret Thatcher on Fleet Street, and "well over a thousand" gathered around St Paul's.

So, with the millions of pounds in public resources, the hundreds, possibly thousands of hours of prime-time TV, and thousands of pages of newspaper and magazine coverage devoted to white-washing the legacy of Margaret Thatcher and to promoting public adulation at her funeral, STILL Margaret Thatcher's supporters are less numerous than the people who gathered to condemn the legacy of her divisive politics in Trafalgar Square.

No doubt the effect of the media hype will mean that, as the day goes on, the number of Margaret Thatcher's supporters will grow, but recall again the enormous media campaign required to achieve this, as opposed to the Trafalgar Square event being realised at short notice, with no formal organisation and with effectively zero resources.

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  1. Trolling....AGAIN. — anonymous
  2. When they give you two options, always take the third..... — LCW
  3. Thatcher's vote — Richard
  4. HALF A MILLION attended TUC demo, 26 March 2011 — CNN
  5. Sea of white faces at St Paul's — Lomax
  6. Thatcher's funeral, in context... — Rollo
  7. Makes me happy — ★
  8. To the trolls @? and @Gay — wake up call
  9. Counter-protest at Ludgate Circus — Ludgate
  10. Northern Tories line the streets to commemorate Thatcher — *
  11. Northern Tories pack town centres to commemorate Margaret Thatcher — *
  12. Facilitating peaceful protest — Steve
  13. Lovin' it — poster boy
  14. Responses to right-wing troll — Atlantic
  15. laugh at the trolls — i hate all tories, dead or alive
  16. Thatcher Supporters — Smiley
  17. Thatcher Funeral in Goldthorpe — Barnsley
  18. Thatcher's coffin makes its way through Goldthorpe — Yorks
  19. mwah mwah mwah. — Jeremy de'ath.
  20. Goldthorpe today — TS
  21. These 'lot' left their Mother to rot over the last few years — crypt
  22. Hundreds of thousands line London streets for Margaret Thatcher's final journey — Pinochet's victims
  23. Tony Blair shakes Cameron's hand - New Labour, The Betrayal is Total — Pinochet's Victims
  24. Perspective — Lorraine
  25. next — CC
  26. @CC — *****
  27. crowds growing in Goldthorpe — pyro
  28. Miserable Britain. — The steel magnolia.
  29. summary of day — what happened
  30. @what happened — B
  31. Bleakness of a rainy day. — Longbow..
  32. still not many protesters like promised — volume of a sphere
  33. disappointed — Thatchers mates-torturers and child rapists.
  34. Goldthorpe — Legacy
  35. @Thatchers mates-torturers and child rapists. — r00k
  36. highyl trained — Plod
  37. Thank you. — Longbow.
  38. @Plod — wishing well
  39. @Thatchers mates-torturers and child rapists — not_plod
  40. different mutations / different outcomes — plod
  41. plod — tosser
  42. Last Word on Numbers — 1973
  43. Liverpool fans do the conga to celebrate death of Margaret Thatcher — Handy
  44. The media heaped praise on Jimmy Savile immediately after he died — Justice
  45. oh look - logic and common sense — amplify
  46. @amplify — Common sense & logic
  47. there there — mio moi
  48. @mio moi — trollkiller
  49. @pussy galore — 835
  50. Thatcher supporters — Luisa
  51. THATCHER YOUTH / HITLER YOUTH — Luisa
  52. Another Thatcher Death Party in Liverpool — Studs
  53. Why Celebrate the Death of Thatcher? Ask a Chilean! — GHF