On the subject of hating Thatcher- http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/22093181#TWEET719060 An online campaign has helped a version of Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead appear at number 10 in the Official Midweek Charts. Opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have been buying copies of the song following her death on Monday aged 87. The version is sung by Judy Garland and appeared in the film The Wizard of Oz. A Facebook group, encouraging people to download the song, was originally set up in July 2007. It has more than 5,000 members. 'Three versions' The Official Charts Company previously said there are three versions, including the Judy Garland one, of the song in the Top 200. Ella Fitzgerald's 1961 cover is at 146 and the Munchkins' version at 183. In a statement, The Official Charts Company said: "As of midnight last night (Tuesday, April 9) Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, credited to the Wizard Of Oz Film Cast, has sold over 10,600 copies, which is roughly 5,000 copies away from a Top 3 placing at this mid-way stage." There have been some reports which claim some versions of the song are too short to qualify for a chart position. However, the Official Charts Company have denied that.
I agree with John, also maybe these football chairmen should get together and have their own minutes silence- it might help them get over it?
I was thinking of something more like this: Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead. Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed. Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go, Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out. Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low. Let them know The Wicked Witch is dead! And behold it could even be the next No.1 hit!! http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...llowing-margaret-thatchers-death-8566042.html Edit; Oops soz Golaccio, didn't read your post.
If we had had a sweepstake on which chairman would spout the minute's silence comment first - I think all of us would have had money on David "I've got an opinion on just about everything, and if I haven't give me a few minutes to come up with one." Whelan. Don't both clubs have to agree on the silence for it to take place?
It is like asking the Jews to hold a minutes silence for Hitler. Anyone showing any support for her never suffered and probably made money from her. What did she do to deserve all this outpouring of feeling? If you do not know then it is easy for you to ignore that factor, we will never forget. jck
The Thatcher thing is now getting boring. No silence needed imo as she hated football. Let the house of commons have one. ffs,
What a sad thread. Like senior members of the Royal Family, it is to be expected that any major figure of national importance should be accorded all due respect on their death. Whether you personally liked her or she like you is absurdly irrelevant. It's what we do in this country and have done for decades at football. It's an established part of our culture. However, as virtually no silence at football is ever respected due to drunken self-important turds, it's probably a good idea to do away with them all together as it shows football fans in a poor light.
Why the hell should we respect a woman that led a government that tore the heart out Great Britain and handed it on a plate to greedy bankers and shareholders. Giving the bitch a state funeral is bad enough, a minutes silence is too much.
Someone just tweeted Bob Crow's quote, that he wants Thatcher to "rot in hell". Someone tweeted back, 'give her eleven years and it will be better than heaven'.
Bob Crow. A good example of why she needed to crush the unions. I'm surprised he can tweet tbh, I'd imagined his snout was in the trough most of the time.
Well said. Most of the people who are honouring her now couldn't wait to see the back of her in 1990 and that included most of her own party. Just check how many Tories protested after the men in grey suits finally forced her out. A lot of people are very busy trying to re-write history at the moment, I even heard Chris Patton on the radio describing her as "kind!" - I almost choked - Anyone who drew breath in the 80s knew that was the polar opposite of Thatcher.
Here you are Craig, the obit from the Telegraph. A succinct enough summary. Enjoy. "For more than a decade Margaret Thatcher enjoyed almost unchallenged political mastery, winning three successive general elections. The policies she pursued with ferocious energy and unyielding will resulted in a transformation of Britain’s economic performance. The resulting change was also political. But by discrediting socialism so thoroughly, she prompted in due course the adoption by the Labour Party of free market economics, and so, as she wryly confessed in later years, “helped to make it electable”. As for the effects of the Thatcher phenomenon upon British society, these were both more ambiguous and more debatable. Her remark “there is no such thing as society” was wrenched altogether out of the context of the interview in which it was made, and made to seem to be an advocacy of naked individualism, when she was really calling for more personal responsibility. Yet, rightly or wrongly, the 1980s came to be seen as a time of social fragmentation whose consequences are still with us. Margaret Thatcher was the only British prime minister to leave behind a set of ideas about the role of the state which other leaders and nations strove to copy and apply. Monetarism, privatisation, deregulation, small government, lower taxes and free trade — all these features of the modern globalised economy were crucially promoted as a result of the policy prescriptions she employed to reverse Britain’s economic decline. Above all, in America and in Eastern Europe she was regarded, alongside her friend Ronald Reagan, as one of the two great architects of the West’s victory in the Cold War. Of modern British prime ministers, only Margaret Thatcher’s girlhood hero, Winston Churchill, acquired a higher international reputation."
