£10,000,000.00 for Thatcher's death? REAL cost revealed (roll eyes)

[5129frederick]

I knew it was bunkom.  It's just been revealed the true cost is somewhere in the region of £3,600,000.00.  All this £M10.00 figure being banded about was just hot air.  And the cost to the Government will be even lower,because the Thatcher dynisty have said they will be making a donation towards the overall costs.  They didn't reveal what that sum would be, but I'd say it would be at least £100.00  ;-):-D

If you think about it logically, not even the queen could run up that type of bill even if they flew all the v.i.p's in by helicopter and put them up in the Savoy Hotel.

When Blair kicks the bucket, his do wouldn't even reach £10,000.00.

[tommy.irene]

£3,000,000 give it to me..

[angela_mills]

£3.6 million you say? Oh well. that's ok then. :^O

[kiss*my*pixel]

Well, that's considerably less than the estimated £10,000,000 that everyone was objecting to.

Take into consideration the family's contribution (don't know how much that was, but deduct it from final bill)

Police wages (they were going to be paid for the day anyway, what else might they have been doing - catching speeding drivers maybe, they don't seem to do much else)?

The carriages and whatnot are already in place, so were merely being dusted off and utilised.

So probably a great deal less than £3m in real terms

She served this country for 11 and a half years and did good in a lot of people's eyes

IMO she deserved the send-off. Cost to the taxpayer, approx 6p each.

Don't know about you, but there's lots that my taxes are going to that I would vehemently object to. This isn't one of them.

Local elections are looming (next week) - candidates knocking on the door.

Not one single one of them grabs my interest politically - very sad

Whatever you might think of Mrs Thatcher, she did get people talking (and thinking) politics.

At the moment - no-one is doing it, IMO

[Anonymous]

any links or is that straight from camorons mouth

[upthecreekyetagain]

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/1827292/report-margaret-thatcher-s-funeral-cost-just-and-pound-3-6-million

[bookhunter2007]

Whichever way you slice it, glorified Spitting Image reunions are not cheap these days.

[renomarvinm]

Follow the money trail.  If so many pounds were spent, where did the money go?  Who was paid for what?  Did any of it "trickle down" and go back into the economy.  Keynes was a British economist.  What would he have said?   (I don't know the answer to that question.)

[salfordmarinade]

According to the Sun......well, no problem there then.:^O

Cost in this matter will have a fair sized subjective element, especially as Dave has some important local elections looming.

Sad some seem to be so little concerned with the deaths and injuries caused by driving to excess .

JMK might have said what he did regarding suggested long-run solutions to immediate problems, in that 'in the long run we are all dead'.

[lhasa.two]

ONLY £3.6million... well that's all right then. 😐

[upthecreekyetagain]

According to the Sun......well, no problem there then.

Maybe The Guardian report is more believable 🙂

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/25/margaret-thatcher-funeral-cost

[salfordmarinade]

Not really, as it's based on a Downing St press release, which they state at the beginning  😉

[Anonymous]

ah i see according to "cabinet sources" well there is an election on next month so no coincidence there then is there?  why should I pay one penny towards that persons funeral.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Not really, as it's based on a Downing St press release, which they state at the beginning  😉

And you don't think the Guardian of all papers would debunk such a claim if it weren't true 😉

[salfordmarinade]

They are reporting what Downing St has told them old bean, which is what they state in the first para. Do you believe they have access to the additional security expenditure figures of the security services as well as other govt departments:O;-)

There are local elections looming, the figures are very broad brush, and seemingly not independent.;-)

Perhaps we might get to hear what the Thatcher family contributed, perhaps Mark gave them one of his brown envelopes

[upthecreekyetagain]

"Old bean" - strange turn of phrase ?:|

[salfordmarinade]

Better than turning phrases of others into something they didn't say :^O;-)

[upthecreekyetagain]

Doesn't seem to stop you and in a quaint way 🙂

[salfordmarinade]

It's called 'projection' old bean, and not the kind you get at the cinema, but feel free to give examples, perhaps kma can start another thread for you and pretend it's about something else.

again. :-D;-)

[upthecreekyetagain]

Toodle pip old fruit :^O