I wouldn't want a minutes silence for her but I wouldn't disrupt it if there was one, prob just go onto Facebook on my phone to post something profound.
Whatever my views of her premiership and legacy (which I can't be bothered going into) I am mighty seething at this funeral malarky. £8-10 million! MPs getting thousands in expenses to attend? I find it unbelieveable that in a time where we keep getting told that there is no more money, we need to tighten out belts, we're all in this together, you can live on £53 a week and so on we can whip out the millions no bother when it suits. (see also Olympic ceremony / Queen's payrise / Royal wedding etc). We have millionairres using public money to pay for another millionairre's funeral! Outragous.
If the family want something more lavish fair enough, but they pay for it, they can well afford it. I know a few people who have passed away in the past couple of years and in a couple of cases the widow and/or kids had to scrape together to find the money for a half decent service and cremation followed by a wee buffet with tea and coffee. Don't recall hearing about anyone else in government offering to help out. However it always seem that the more money you have the less you have to pay for (inc taxes).
Surely Maggie will be spinning in her grave hearing that the 'society' that she didn't believe in is paying for her funeral. If she is to be honoured correctly surely the funeral should be tendered out to the lowest bidder in the private sector and tickets sold off for people to attend, that to my mind sounds like something she would agree with. Seething.
Edit - spelling