The point I was originally making was that 'Thatcher-hate' has its roots not just in obstinacy or political opposition, but bridges between people that were burned and were never really rebuilt. There is a lot more to it than strikes and closures.

Of course people get money for nothing. It happens all the time. But if being born in the right family constitutes hard work then I agree with you.

I think using terms like 'losers' makes your attitude to life clear. It's not one I believe in using. I am deeply sentimental about people and some of the situations they find themselves in, and stand by that view.

"Though this really isn't about an old woman dying. It's about a towering symbol of our national differences and outlook that has been brought to an almighty head."

Very grand.

But the time for celebration was when she left office.

Partying now is just plain nasty.

"Instead we as a nation ended up importing cheap foreign coal to replace those substantial and still untouched reserves."

And that's why government shouldn't try to run industry.

"We shouldn't let such gratuitous acts override a more rational view of left or right ideologies."

I don't think anyone is basing their views of the looney left and the baby-eating bastards on the right purely from this.

To give an example of what I meant, a presenter of a car show makes a joke: fire him.

An old woman dies: let the good times roll.

No principles, no consistency, the hypocrisy ignored - as usual.

But hopefully this situation will make more people realise the moral righteousness of the left is nothing but an act.

"When I see people being condemned for feeling ill-will to Thatcher and everything she represents, I see only an incredible lack of insight and an increasingly reinforced reminder of the divisions she enhanced."

It's not ill-will that's being complained about. It's the gleeful revelling in the death of an irrelevant 87 year-old grandmother.

I lost my job as a result of the 2008 crash. And there was plenty of anger and tears around then, too.

But I'd end up a truly pathetic creature if I spent the rest of my days blaming someone else for my situation.

And the very idea of partying or smashing up charity shops because someone who had a negative affect on my life - thirty plus years ago - has passed away, is repugnant.

On the plus side, at least all this helps expose the left for what they really are.

Based on the comments here. it is still clear that a number of us don't understand the social phenomenon of 'Thatcher-Hate'. Perhaps if they had personally been on receiving end of some of the measures she took during her position of power, for which some people have clearly never forgiven her, or at least witnessed with their own eyes some of the emotional repercussions of that time, they would have a much better idea. This particular woman's glee may have come from such an origin, or it may simply been part of the more widespread sympathy with it. Either way, the idea that people should not feel some kind of solidarity with seeing their perceived oppressor expire is irrational in itself. I saw at first hand the anger and tears caused directly by Thatcher's 'policies' during the eighties, so I can see clearly why Thatcher and all she symbolises is hated in this way. When I see people being condemned for feeling ill-will to Thatcher and everything she represents, I see only an incredible lack of insight and an increasingly reinforced reminder of the divisions she enhanced. The haters aren't all 'nasty' people, They were just really hurt people. And if that sounds trite and sentimental then I'm sure Thatcher would have agreed with you. Even good dogs might bite you if you kick them hard enough.

What kind of human? Well I naturally thought “a scumbag” first off.

But then I remembered that I wasn't too broken up to hear Osama Bin Laden died, so maybe I am being a hypocrite? And shouldn’t be casting any stones at glass houses or something like that.

Some people absolutely hate Margaret Thatcher. I think that hate is too strong and not quite rational, maybe saing more about the hater than the hated.

But hate is often like that.

These repellent people have always, we must admit, been cheerfully frank about what they would do, and how they would feel, when she finally died. We did, it is fair to say, have a lot of warming of their joyful anticipation of this event.

However, we know them to be socialists. They proudly advertise themselves as this thing, by themselves. All it proves is that people who get infected by socialist thinking are nasty: but what I want to know really is, do nasty people get attracted to socialism a-priori, or does the snaring of a soul by socialism make one into a nasty person?

I'd just love to know which way round it is.

Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Lech Walensa will be remembered as the greatest freedom-fighters of our millenia. Their achievement will live for time immemorial. I will seek out Lech Walensa's comments and ignore the neo-historical comments of todays journals.

The small group I named above made me consider the idea that politics could achieve great ends occasionally, it happens so infrequently. That brief moment of hope has been dashed repeatedly by subsequent politicians and their camp followers.

We remember those who clamoured to support the communist status quo and would turn UK into something similar, those union secretary-generals are out in full force today. The petulant, childish displays by frustrated communists show their futility. We must allow these scum to identify themselves, all the better so that we may know which products and services to boycott.

So, rest in peace Margaret Thatcher, peacebringer and fearless politician. You fought the good fight, and well.

What kind of person?

A socialist; need one say more?

Footnote: the death of Stalin was marked by people openly weeping in the streets; Solzhenitsyn describes the scene, and his reactions to it as a recently-released zek.

Yep report her to the management. State that it was grossly offensive and get her fired