Secular Café: Thatcher’s Funeral Cost £3.6 million / $5.6 million – Much Less Than Reported

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Thatcher's Funeral Cost £3.6 million / $5.6 million – Much Less Than Reported Apr 28th 2013, 21:21 http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/28/...than-reported/ Good grief: £3.6 million totally wasted....they should have wrapped her body in a black bin-bag, and dropped it down one of the many mine-shafts she closed. Much cheaper, and much more appropriate. And they're saying it was good value because it cost less than anticipated...... Quote: The funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cost £3.6 million ($5.6 million) – a fraction of its previously estimated price tag, according to the BBC. The procession through central London and ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral on April 17 — together with a huge security operation involving some 4,000 police officers — was initially estimated in some media reports to cost around £10 million ($15 million), a tab that would be largely picked up by the British taxpayer. That led to an outcry among those who felt that such a sum (and for a Prime Minister whose economic reforms and battles with trade unions continue to divide Britain) was excessive at a time of austerity. As thousands of people lined the streets of central London to pay their respects to Lady Thatcher, who died on April 8 at age 87, a number of protestors vented their anger over the funeral's perceived cost. When the true cost of the funeral was announced on Friday by the Prime Minister's office, Lord Bell, a spokesman for the Thatcher family, told the Daily Telegraph that those protests had been unjustified. "It is a remarkably low cost for this most extraordinary event. It increased the standing of Britain in the world and was extremely good value," he said. :mad:

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