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

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