Should Baroness Thatcher's funeral have really been at the expense of tax payers?

Yesterday was the funeral of Lady Margaret Thatcher, Britain's "iron lady", first female prime minister and an incredibly strong-minded politician.

Thatcher's solid and unwavering political choices, also known as "Thatcherism" earned her nicknames such as "Thatcher Thatcher The Milk Snatcher"- supporting the fact that it is of great awareness that her policies were majorly contraversial, leading to extreme unpopularity; especially amongst the working class of Britain.

Although some may argue that Thatcher saved Britain economically and had a sense of control that today's politicians lack, many people were not in favour of her "balls of steel" based choices such as closure of many mines and factories resulting in unemployment and poverty, the discontinuation of milk for children in primary schools and nurseries which had helped families on a lower income, privatising companies, selling council houses (resulting in a shortage) and many more.

However, should the cost of the funeral really have been funded by the tax payer? At a steep amount of around £10m, surely Britain is in need of other essentials rather than the funeral of a Politician who surely had enough savings to pay for it herself?

As stated in an article in the Guardian, the funeral cost could have funded the wages of 322 nurses for a year, 272 secondary school teachers for a year, 320 fire officers for a year, 269 paramedics for a year, 177,777 jobseekers' allowance claimants and 44 libraries.

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Boston Marathon

Firstly, I'd like to send my prayers out to all of those affected by the horrible, sickening crisis that is the explosion of the Boston Marathon.

There are many issues that have come to my attention this evening; firstly starting with how anybody could be so alarmingly cruel minded to the extent of violently sabotaging a charity marathon for a previous mass shooting in a school in Newtown. Although there is currently no confirmed source of proof leading to the explanation that the explosions were the deliberate actions of a terrorist organisation, ball bearings have been found which leads researchers to believe that they are shrapnel, a type of bomb, which adds to the suspicion that the explosion was deliberate.

We should be looking out for each other in unity, comforting each other through natural disasters such as earthquakes or the inevitable natural death of those we love and so on - not inflicting yet more pain upon each other.

What has also particularly grinded my gears tonight is that, as aforementioned, there is yet no confirmed source of the culprits, if any, of the explosion however I have seen many ignorant opinions claiming that Arabs and Muslims are behind the entire "attack". Is this what we have come to, as a society? We have been successfully fed by the syringe of the media, who conveniently only cover the cases of Muslim supremacy and not the unknowingly common supremacists of Christianity, Judaism and many more.

Also, how come it is the case that nobody is ever interested in world affairs until they become widely recognised and discussed? Half of the oblivious Tweeters and Facebook-ers have most probably never even read an entire newspaper before however they're extremely fast to jump on the band wagon as soon as it is a trending topic.

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