[Closed] Everyone excited about the prospect of a Margaret Thatcher Day?

Cheeky bastards.

Can't see it catching on, somehow.

If it gets me a day off work, bring it on!

I think you probably have that day off already.

So if there's a Maggie day and we get the day off, will the haters still go in to work? I certainly hope so!

it's already a bank holiday, they're just going to give it a name Woppit. 😀

EDIT: They're not going to name it "Woppit Day" though, I mean they're going to name it "Margaret Thatcher Day". Just so we're clear.

If it gets me a day off work, bring it on!

“the last Monday in August”

I think you can just take the same day off twice 🙂

i will self flagellate myself the whole day if i am forced to take a day off work in her name.

There doesn't seem to be much in the way of obligation in the Bill for anyone to actually call it that.

If Maggie were doing it, there would be a fine or six months in the clink for anyone seen out not wearing blue.

We can just rename it Anti-Thatcher day. And spend the day off celebrating her demise.

Well, it would be no more ridiculous than Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Easter Sunday etc.

It's a plan that could spectacularly backfire on the tories; the Notting Hill Carnival is held on August bank holiday weekend. Have they not thought of that? 😆

They are really trying whatever they can to boost the Scottish independence vote; it'll work a treat!

Stoner - Member

it's already a bank holiday, they're just going to give it a name Woppit.

Oops. Didn't acrually read the links. 😳

"Woppit Day" sounds good to me. I'll have December 25th, I think.

Well, it would be no more ridiculous than Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Easter Sunday etc.

Good point. Perhaps Margret Thatcher Day could be extended so that it is celebrated throughout the world.

What a fitting way the celebrate the only British Prime Minister in living memory to be sacked whilst in office.

Bring it on. I'm all up for burning Maggie edifices on BHs.

We can make a tradition of roaming the streets, snatching milk from young children as well.

They are really trying whatever they can to boost the Scottish independence vote; it'll work a treat!

Doesn't seem to apply in Scotland, curiously. They will be feeling very left out.

So it actually shows the success of devolution. 🙂

It depends what we are celebrating. If we are celebrating what she did for me (giving council house owners houses at half price so they could jump up the housing ladder, move into nice areas, and turn them into council estates, giving up on poll tax, so now a person living in a house with 10 people in pays a 5th of what I have to), then no.

But if we are celebrating where she took the UK, then undoubtedly, yes.

Dead and still annoying the lefties. Awesome. 😀

Good point. Perhaps Margret Thatcher Day could be extended so that it is celebrated throughout the world.

What a fitting way the celebrate the only British Prime Minister in living memory to be sacked whilst in office.

And every year, all round the world, on Thatcher-day-eve, while everyone sleeps, Father Thatchmas comes down your chimney and steals your milk.

Father Thatchmas comes down your chimney and steals your milk.

LOL 😆

Really? they are naming a day after her?

Well blow me down with a white feather.

Why not name all BH's after an ex PM... I can see "Tony Blair" day going down well too, s'pecially in Iraq'istan.

A rather divisive decision by the Right wingers

It would seem odd that we remember her and not Churchill - Yes I know his record is somewhat mixed but he would be more universally accepted as our greatest PM

How about suggestions for the best way to celebrate the day?

if we are celebrating where she took the UK, then undoubtedly, yes

It is daft whatever you think of her as everyone knows you get polarised views so to attempt to celebrate her is divisive and more likely to lead to civil disobedience than bring the country together.

Shame they can't hold it on November the 5th... Everyone's been complaining that the tradition of making Guys has died off...

Yeah Tucker: From a Britain with inefficient industries, to a Britain with no industries. Fantastic! 🙁

How about suggestions for the best way to celebrate the day?

give rupert murdoch a handjob, pick a fight with the ira, shoot a retreating argie in the back, invite jimmy saville round for tea and then kick a northern miner in the nuts?

I can see "Tony Blair" day going down well too

Good idea, every year we can bring peace to the Middle East by invading a random country, killing 500k people and then going home.

Dead and still [s]annoying the lefties[/s] dividing society. Awesome.

Yeah, fantastic.

Yeah, fantastic.

😆 @ Kimbers

give rupert murdoch a handjob, pick a fight with the ira, shoot a retreating argie in the back, invite jimmy saville round for tea and then kick a northern miner in the nuts?

I miss Saturday nights at the St Stephens Club 🙁

I think I'll hang on for Pol Pot friday !!!!

Who is this Margret Thatcher you all talk of ..................

Isnt she dead.

Hmmm, can we not just have [I]"Former Prime Minister's Day"[/I] instead, why pick the most divisive, recently deceased one?

Failing that I think we should have [I]"Harold Macmillan Wednesday"[/I] 2nd wednesday in March, a resolutely stupid time for a national holiday but it will not back down...

Maybe a [I]"Tony Blair Day"[/I] in September some time, Lots of Hype in the build up, then it'll all be a bit disappointing...

How's about [I]"Gordon Brown Day"[/I] no time off work, everyone just has to look all miserable all day...

David Cameron Empathy Tuesday

We pretend we are all in together but only those who can afford it get the day off?

How's about "Gordon Brown Day" no time off work, everyone just has to look all miserable all day...

you forgot to mention obsessive nail chewing and being indecisive....

David Cameron Empathy Tuesday

We pretend we are all in together but only those who can afford it get the day off?

🙂

there is a nice irony in being out of work and thinking about thatcher.

Make Wicker Man effigies to burn, and imprison her successors within them.

As long as it's a bank holiday or holiday I support it, otherwise none of my business.

😆

I've got no problem with it- we have Guy Fawkes Night to remember another parliamentary legend, why not Thatcher Day? We'll have a massive bonfire in George Square and burn her in effigy, it'll be fab.

Actually why wait til they're dead? I'll get collecting pallets for George Osborne Night, we can have it tomorrow.

yeah cool.. can we make it themed? like easter has eggs, nov 5th has fireworks

for maggie day can we all make big green hats from stuff in our recycling boxes in the shape of a dinosaur..?
then wearing our maggie HATchers we can ritualistically slay our household pets with dinner forks before parading around the streets in our hats with our dead pets entrails draped around our children's necks

If so then I'm [i]in[/i]

We pretend we are all in together but only those who can afford it get the day off?

Surely its only people who are on the side of hardworking families that are all in it together that would get the day off.

Maybe we should have a day celebrating Pinochet, Pol Pot and apartheid as well (some of her favourite things).

Surely its only people who are on the side of hardworking families that are all in it together that would get the day off.

Plus people on benefits would be made to work as serfs for hard working families. Single mums would also be locked in stocks on village greens and pelted with veg for being a drain on tax payers resources. You'd also be allowed to hunt immigrants using a bow and arrow.

Actually why wait til they're dead? I'll get collecting pallets for George Osborne Night, we can have it tomorrow.

And why even bother with an effigy, when we can have the real thing? 😀

5thElefant - Member

Dead and still annoying the lefties. Awesome. 😀

It's difficult to imagine a more good humoured and restraint thread where the topic is Thatcher. In fact I can't recall the last time I saw a thread dealing with [i]any[/i] politician showing this much good humour and restraint.

it's almost celebratory in nature

ding dong

cybicle - Member

And why even bother with an effigy, when we can have the real thing?

Well I thought that part went without saying! I'm not sure he'd burn, though.

Ooh I don't know; he's certainly oily enough. Should burn for ages.

(Whilst simultaneously providing warmth for some of those 'hardworking families' the tories like to bang on about so much)

I think we could join together as a nation and celebrate her legacy in the most appropriate manner possible

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Well I thought that part went without saying! I'm not sure he'd burn, though.

Driving a stake through his heart and shooting him with silver bullets might just work.

Thatcher Day, FFS 🙄 Someone definitely has their finger on the pulse of the Nation.

That should help crystallise the referendum vote up here 🙂

if you read the bill it excludes Scotland from it

i assume this is so it can have Wee eck day

Can't believe no one's posted this, we already have a celebratory song why do we need a day ?

The chap in that photo is 100% Northern; it's hot enough not to wear a shirt, but he's taken his coat [i]just in case...[/i]

Yes Jambalaya, loads of songs, Billy Bragg, Fine Young Cannibals, Christy Moore for a start. Could be a day of music and tea )with Pinochet).

It does seem odd for the most divisive politician of recent years (ever?) to have a day named after her when wounds have certainly not healed in many parts of the nation. And Scotland. Not well thought out.

I'll still work on a Margret Thatcher day as I need to earn money to pay bills for utilities that she sold that we already owned.

The cow!

You burn if you want, this chancellor's not for burning!

That seems vaguely familiar 😉

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Ein volk, ein reich, ein maggie

The chap in that photo is 100% Northern; it's hot enough not to wear a shirt, but he's taken his coat just in case...

I do hope this gets in . The parties will be fab . It will be the new Guy Fawkes Night with quasi contemporary relevance. Less chance of the bonfire being put out by rain too.

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/margaretthatcherday.html

This Bill is a Private Member’s Bill. If you wish to know more about the bill please contact its sponsor, Mr Peter Bone.

Mr Peter Bone is the Conservative MP for Wellingborough

Less chance of the bonfire being put out by rain too.

Not if you pour enough petrol on it. It seems that the streets in the 80's were mostly on fire.I always thought it was a policy introduced by her oil company director husband to sell more petrol. 😀