They expect counter demo's on Wednesday state funeral, being funded by at
least 8 million pounds that the government  says it can't or don't have to
spend on other social programs- arrests could happen. 700 extra police have
been called up for it and the government says pre arrests could happen...
The last video is at last weeks Liverpool Reds match! Go Reds!
Cort
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  Class Hatred and Bad Memories of
Thatcher<http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/hatred-memories-thatcher.html>

Posted on 04/14/2013 by Juan Cole

The hatred for the late Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister,
among a broad segment of the British public has manifested itself in
visible and undeniable ways in the week after her death, but these are not
highlighted on American television. The status quo corporate media are
afraid of admitting that policy-makers who favor the rich and punish the
middle and working classes are deeply hated by the
latter<http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/margaret-thatchers-policies.html>.
Dead leaders have to be represented on television as being revered by the
entirety of the public (an imaginary public for which the corporate anchors
can serve as ventriloquists). That many Americans despise Ronald Reagan is
likewise an unmentionable on the airwaves.

Demonstrators gathered Saturday at Trafalgar
Square<http://youtu.be/0AEtLzMGZ4c> to
denounce Thatcher’s Neoliberal policies, which enriched the wealthy and
harmed the middle classes, holding what they called a “death party.” Middle
and working class Britons well remember how they defeated her hated
poll tax<http://libcom.org/history/poll-tax-rebellion-danny-burns> and
hastened her from office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0AEtLzMGZ4c

Then, Britons have been commemorating Thatcher’s death by downloading
“Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead,” <http://youtu.be/6VJjk5P5zkg> in high
volumes, pushing it to the top of the download charts. The British
Broadcast Company was put in a difficult position, because it has a show
that plays the top downloaded songs, and it didn’t want to be seen as
endorsing this use of the tune. The BBC dealt with the problem by only
playing an excerpt of the song, which satisfied no one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6VJjk5P5zkg

British soccer fans for some time have been singing at the matches, “When
Maggie Thatcher Dies, we’re going to have a party!”<http://youtu.be/W_uHxX8DQXY>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W_uHxX8DQXY

http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/hatred-memories-thatcher.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+juancole%2Fymbn+%28Informed+Comment%29


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