Lady Thatcher`s funeral next Wenesday

[Tricky]

Personally I don't think we should pay anything, what ever she did good or bad, she was doing a job that she was well paid for.

Can't see anyone paying for mine, that said when I'm brown bread, not bothered if I'm chucked in a wheelie bin 

[Rusty Nuts]

MP's being paid up to £3000. for going to the funeral!!

[Graham0127]

Personally I don't think we should pay anything, what ever she did good or bad, she was doing a job that she was well paid for.

Can't see anyone paying for mine, that said when I'm brown bread, not bothered if I'm chucked in a wheelie bin 

She wasn`t just doing a job...unlike most of us,who just go through the motions....Lady Thatcher dedicated 33 years of her life to her constituents and the electorate that put her in her position...

Not a job any of us would want.

The government will take our 18p anyway......like it or not !

 

I`m sure when you meet your end,there will be someone who respects you enough to pay for a memorable send off.  

[M444TTB]

MP's being paid up to £3000. for going to the funeral!!

Source? Surely any MP wouldn't be that stupid these days... would they?!

[Graham0127]

MP's being paid up to £3000. for going to the funeral!!

Christ,takes me a week of breaking my back to earn that........

Or is that Labour MPs.......?

[Captain Colonial]

Even better, MPs who attended the recall today are entitled to claim up to £3,750 in travel expenses - why couldn't they just have waited until Monday?

[Norman Verona]

I said it's a state funeral in all but name.

 

 

Steve, don't go yet, you've my roll bar to paint in May.

 

Scott, as long as it's British real ale.

[Tricky]

She wasn`t just doing a job...unlike most of us,who just go through the motions....Lady Thatcher dedicated 33 years of her life to her constituents and the electorate that put her in her position...

Not a job any of us would want.

The government will take our 18p anyway......like it or not !

 

I`m sure when you meet your end,there will be someone who respects you enough to pay for a memorable send off.  

 

Mine will be memorable alright, Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirts and calypso music! 

[Tricky]

Oh and errrr, a wheelie bin.

[Graham0127]

Even better, MPs who attended the recall today are entitled to claim up to £3,750 in travel expenses - why couldn't they just have waited until Monday?

 

Scott, £3750 may seem a lot,but,have you tried to hire a private jet to fly you home from the Seychelles.  

Surely our MPs are worth it ?

 

 

^{`stuff and nonesense`}

[Captain Colonial]

Scott, £3750 may seem a lot,but,have you tried to hire a private jet to fly you home from the Seychelles.  

Surely our MPs are worth it ?

 

 

^{`stuff and nonesense`}

 

Not for me to say of course, just to inform and enlighten.

[Graham0127]

Not for me to say of course, just to inform and enlighten.

Steady on Scott.....you could end up sounding like one.  

[ajpearson]

The difference for a proper state funeral, is the body will lay in state in Westminster Hall, the other difference is that an act of parliament is required for a state funeral.

 

You then get into the differences between horses and matelots pulling the coffin

[ajpearson]

And i know a lot about them, I have been on standby for the last year for a state funeral.  Stepped down only in February,

[Norman Verona]

AJ, you're getting semantic now. 

 

I can't remember any other PM getting this level of funeral other than Churchill.