Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:01 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

LOL - Francis Maude on TV this morning trying to force down the estimates of the cost of the funeral by explaining that you shouldn't factor in the cost of the 700 armed forces lining the route because "they are already on the payroll" and we'd have to pay their wages whether they stood there or not.

Yes Francis, because thats how accountancy works isn't it, "We shouldn't include the cost of these lathes and this factory because we'd have to pay for them even if we weren't producing all of these parts" - I look forward to all of the Premier League football clubs using the same theory when they refuse to pay their huge policing bills...

Marginal costing!! not an unreasonable way of understanding the cost.

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:04 am  

cod'ead wrote:

4000 rozzers policing the funeral rather suggests an ideal opportunity for criminals elsewhere too

Given we have so few police on the streets would this event be anymore of a deterent than normal? Perhaps the canteens in police HQ's might suffer?

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:10 am  

At a guess i would say this funeral has cost £6m

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:16 am  

OTOH the extra pay the police and security forces receive will be spent and thus help stimulate the economy, and it must also be good for business for shops along the route, hotels, undertakers, (well, one!) etc.

It's an ill wind . . .

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:51 am  

Charles Moore on Five Live, "Thatcher is reviled in parts of the country that are less important"

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:29 am  

samwire wrote:

just who is my "political blind allegiance" to?

I don't know, surely you should remember ?

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:01 pm  

Cronus wrote:

Charles Moore on Five Live, "Thatcher is reviled in parts of the country that are less important"

He was her biographer, probably passing a message on from beyond the fire.

Queenie looked quite happy as she went into St Pauls.

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:05 pm  

I thought the funeral was beautiful. And it was great that with the exception of a pratt who threw something at the horses and a couple of boos, the crowd was very supportive so we looked dignified to the rest of the world. Thankfully the idiots were all mouth and no action.

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:06 pm  

I want to know how Bernard Ingham managed to smuggle those two Dulux dogs in on his forehead

Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead... : Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:20 pm  

Well glad it's all over now.

Managed to sleep in and miss the tories' most expensive party political broadcast ever so quite pleased about that.