Fears grow over 'frail' Baroness Thatcher

Wolfe Tone

Friends of Margaret Thatcher last night voiced their concern over the ex-Prime Minister’s growing frailty.
Baroness Thatcher turned down an invitation to the Royal Wedding because of her health and has made no public appearances for nearly two months.
The next event in her diary is the unveiling of a statue to her ally and close friend, former US President Ronald Reagan, in London on July 4.
But there are fears that she could also miss that. She suffers increasingly from memory loss after a number of strokes in recent years.
Lady Thatcher, 85, spent two weeks in hospital in November, said to be suffering from a ‘flu bug’. In fact, The Mail on Sunday can disclose that she had polymyalgia rheumatica, a syndrome which causes muscle inflammation in the neck and shoulders.
Friends say she was in severe pain for months and has only just fully recovered from it.
The Mail on Sunday has also learned that the Government will meet the full cost of a State funeral for Baroness Thatcher.
It will take place at St Paul’s Cathedral, at Lady Thatcher’s request, though it has not yet been decided if she will lie in state in Westminster Hall.

She will be the first British Prime Minister since Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 to be afforded such an honour. He was the only former Premier to have a State funeral in the last century.
There were four non-Royal State funerals in the 19th Century – Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and two former Prime Ministers, Lord Palmerston and William Gladstone.
Arrangements for the funeral are being led by Sir Malcolm Ross, the Queen’s former Master of the Royal Household, who has managed every Royal funeral since 1997.
The Queen has given her blessing to the funeral arrangements in recognition of the way Lady Thatcher reversed the UK’s post-Second World War decline, being Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, winning three Elections from 1979 to 1990 – and the Falklands War.
State funerals are reserved for monarchs but may, by order of the reigning monarch, be granted to other national heroes, such as Lord Nelson.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384752/Margaret-Thatchers-friends-growing-increasingly-worried-frailty.html#ixzz1LlZ6uwvN


Bit strange that they say she is sick then rabbit on about her funeral...

I think its fair to say she "divides opinion", what does AH think of Maggie Thatcher and her political career?

Peyton Manning

This link should be included at the start of every Thatcher thread, just for clarification. I would hate for folks to get their hopes up.

Claasman

'Posted banned'

















I expect to see alot of that in this thread.

ISDW

That articles quite funny, the three elections victories and the Falklands War, and not a link made between them:rolleyes:

Obviously I don't wish harm on any other human being, but I shall not be upset in the slightest when she dies.

Zebra3

The "fears" are not mine.

Wolfe Tone

Tom_Brady wrote: »

This link should be included at the start of every Thatcher thread, just for clarification. I would hate for folks to get their hopes up.

Knew I forgot something!

admiralofthefleet

lets have a party!!!!

Mint Sauce

<get popcorn>

ShadowGal

I wonder is she still eating or are they having to force feed her...

Maybe shes human like the rest of us after all

ejmaztec

Claasman wrote: »

'Posted banned'

















I expect to see alot of that in this thread.

I think this might be the only one, excluding quotes like this.:P

arybvtcw0eolkf

She suffers increasingly from memory loss after a number of strokes in recent years.
Lady Thatcher, 85, spent two weeks in hospital in November, said to be suffering from a ‘flu bug’. In fact, The Mail on Sunday can disclose that she had polymyalgia rheumatica, a syndrome which causes muscle inflammation in the neck and shoulders.

LOL

Friends say she was in severe pain for months and has only just fully recovered from it.

Damn :mad:

pragmatic1

Its hard to kill a bad thing.

PK2008

Box of Kleenex for Wolfe Tone and KeithAFC stat!!!


......different reasons

Cavehill Red

I'll stick the champagne on ice, so.

ejmaztec

Howard Brief Newsboy wrote: »

LOL




Damn :mad:

If I'd known, I would have offered to give her a neck massage.:mad:

El Siglo

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I'll stick the champagne on ice, so.

Perhaps a bottle of milk would be more appropriate...

admiralofthefleet

my nana always said god only takes the good so the witch will probably live to 50000

Dudess

Can't understand the glee over her dying - when it happens there will be non stop insufferable tributes to her all over the media, including from people who are only doing so to piss others off.

....meh!

Osama last week, maybe her this week. How the hell will we top it next week?

admiralofthefleet

....meh! wrote: »

Osama last week, maybe her this week. How the hell will we top it next week?

bertie or ray burke?

Wolfe Tone

....meh! wrote: »

Osama last week, maybe her this week. How the hell will we top it next week?

Paisley maybe?

arybvtcw0eolkf

Dudess wrote: »

Can't understand the glee over her dying - when it happens there will be non stop insufferable tributes to her all over the media, including from people who are only doing so to piss others off.

And guess what?.... She'll still be just as dead :pac:

steve9859

She busted the unions and we could do with some of that kind of bottle from our own 'leaders' right now

Sanjuro

DING DONG, THE WITCH IS (soon to be) DEAD!

My name is URL

Whatever about her political career.. rejoicing in her death or ill health is pretty fcuking childish

admiralofthefleet

the coal miners and scots will have some hooley

WIZE

Thatcher will be around for some time yet


that lady is not for turning i tell ya

Wolfe Tone

steve9859 wrote: »

She busted the unions and we could do with some of that kind of bottle from our own 'leaders' right now

OUT OUT OUT

UglyBolloxFace

Howard Brief Newsboy wrote: »

LOL




Damn :mad:

Are you seriously "LOL'ing" at the pain the woman went through, and expressing disappointment that the woman is still alive? You sicken me. In fact, everyone who posts that sort of stuff expressing these feelings towards an old woman sickens me. What if that were your mother/relative?

I'm no fan of hers and fair enough, she wasn't the most popular person due to the disgusting things she did, but why can't we be the bigger person and not lower ourselves to this? It's ****ing embarrassing and I'm ****ing disgusted.

ShadowGal

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Are you seriously "LOL'ing" at the pain the woman went through, and expressing disappointment that the woman is still alive? You sicken me. In fact, everyone who posts that sort of stuff expressing these feelings towards an old woman sickens me. What if that were your mother/relative?

Fair enough, she wasn't the most popular person due to the disgusting things she did, but why can't we be the bigger person and not lower ourselves to this? It's ****ing embarrassing and I'm ****ing disgusted.

Understatement of the year

shar01

Was sooo disappointed to find out it wasn't happening that week



http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/14/past.margaretthatcher

El Siglo

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Are you seriously "LOL'ing" at the pain the woman went through, and expressing disappointment that the woman is still alive? You sicken me. In fact, everyone who posts that sort of stuff expressing these feelings towards an old woman sickens me. What if that were your mother/relative?

I'm no fan of hers and fair enough, she wasn't the most popular person due to the disgusting things she did, but why can't we be the bigger person and not lower ourselves to this? It's ****ing embarrassing and I'm ****ing disgusted.

It's AH and seriously come on like, what do you expect when it's Thatcher.

admiralofthefleet

wouldnt it be gas if it died on the 17th

mike65

Any chance this can be locked before it turns into a ban fest.

Wibbs

Never liked her, nor rated her much. And not just from the point of view of an Irishman. I don't think she did the UK too many favours at all. Why they kept voting her in I have no idea. Well I suppose the dire opposition was one reason and she happened to come along when they were going through a temporary and cyclical boom(sounds familiar...).

The Falklands war helped her in no small way. There were enough British people alive at the time that remembered they were once the biggest empire the world had ever seen. It went from "Rule Britannia, britannia rule the waves Britons never, ever ever shall be slaves" to three day weeks, race riots in the streets and strikes in very short order. It was like watching a once great boxing champion, punch drunk and old and broke, struggling to their feet for one last round against an even weaker opponent. You would cheer tbh.. She was the ringleader of that alright. I can defo understand her popularity after that. Blair tried similar with Bush after 911 but it didn't take nearly as much.

Ditto with much of her posturing guff in Ulster. IMHO she held back the cause of peace in the province by at least 10 years. There's much blood on the addled old bats hands.

I won't be sorry to see her go that's for sure.

UglyBolloxFace

El Siglo wrote: »

It's AH and seriously come on like, what do you expect when it's Thatcher.

I'd at least expect people to not be hypocrites. The same people who are awaiting her death with glee and saying that stuff about her are probably the same people who post in the Bin Laden thread saying that what the Americans did was wrong and that he shouldn't have been killed. ****ing hypocrites.

And if you are at least going to say that stuff, like "can't wait for her death" etc at least have the cop on to give some reasons why, instead of being ****ing sheep following the masses to appear cool and accepted.

shar01

Reckon they'll be celebrating on the streets of Buenos Aires when she goes to her reward.

And I'm sure the Pinochet family will send their condolences...

Sanjuro

shar01 wrote: »

Was sooo disappointed to find out it wasn't happening that week



http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/14/past.margaretthatcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmmomV-ax-s

Wolfe Tone

mike65 wrote: »

Any chance this can be locked before it turns into a ban fest.

Dont see why it should be locked, we have other threads about politicians being sick.

th3 s1aught3r

^ I forgot how liked she was in Britain too, lol

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I'll be popping down to the off-licence when the day comes.

Wolfe Tone

Zebra3 wrote: »

The "fears" are not mine.

Some people fear she may recover.

th3 s1aught3r

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Dont see why it should be locked, we have other threads about politicians being sick.

I was intrigued to see a thread on Thatchers health started by a guy called Wolfe Tone :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I'll be popping down to the off-licence when the day comes.

I suspect her death will be celebrated the length & breadth of the country.

Gunsfortoys

I couldn't care less to be honest.

The woman leaves a legacy of pain and suffering in her wake, I can understand why some will rejoice at her death.

LondonIrish90

She stood up to the unions and changed British politics forever. Thanks to her, Britain, and England in particular, will never be a socialist state.

I'd love to hear from people who think that mining and pro-communist governments were the way forward for Britain, as we entered the age of high-tech industry and the industrialisation of less developed, much larger nations.

Wibbs

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

^ I forgot how liked she was in Britain too, lol

Yea but for all the haters be hatin, at the time she kept getting in. Now I realise there first past the post voting system is a tad daft, but still. Meh I suppose it was like people bleating on and on about FF here in Ireland and yet these cnuts, these corrupt and stupid bastards kept getting voted back in. For over a decade. So Maggie coming back like the bouffant zombie she was should come as no great shock to Irish people.

Storminateacup

I hope they dig her grave so deep they deliver her personally to satan. Rotten old whore.

Wibbs

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

She stood up to the unions and changed British politics forever. Thanks to her, Britain, and England in particular, will never be a socialist state.

That part, the unions part I would have backed her 100%. I don't suspect you'll get much sympathy around here though. Too many bleeding heart lefties.

UglyBolloxFace

Howard Brief Newsboy wrote: »

I suspect her death will be celebrated the length & breadth of the country.

And why's that?
C'mon, give us some reasons for her sheer hatred of the woman.

(By the way, I am not a supporter of this woman at all, I just don't like to see people basically rejoicing in the pain/death of others).

arybvtcw0eolkf

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Some people fear she may recover.

Shudder!