State funeral in all but name,let her wealthy family pay for it instead of scrounging off the tax payers,By the way I thought the "tax payers alliance" would have been up in arms about this,they must have missed the news :^O

The final bill for the funeral may approach £10million. Lady Thatcher’s family is meeting an unspecified amount of the expense, thought to cover transport, flowers and the cremation, with the Government funding the rest, including security.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said: ‘When it comes to money, the rebate she negotiated for this country from the EU has brought us so far £75billion…I think that puts money in perspective.’