Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead

[haiducii]

Celebrations of the death of Margaret Thatcher has seen huge sales of Judy Garland's classic track 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead', with the track reaching the Top Ten on the iTunes chart in the days after her passing.

The Conservative former prime minister died on Monday, aged 87 from a stroke. Her politics on gay issues proved to be divisive for the LGBT community. She voted for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967; however, her government in 1987 introduced the highly controversial Section 28, which banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools.

Elvis Costello's anti-Thatcher song, 'Tramp the Dirt Down' from his 1989 album Spike, is also making its way into the charts.

Noted anti-Thatcherite Morrissey took the opportunity to speak out about Thatcher's death - and unsurprisingly didn't hold back. In a statement released just hours after her death, Morrissey labelled the former Prime Minister 'barbaric'. He said that "she had no wit and no warmth," and finished by saying, "As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity."

I'm certainly not a fan of ms Thatcher's politics, but that's a bit harsh... :?
What do you think???:thinking:

Can't wait for Sunday Radio One could be placed in a difficult situation if it is made to play the song on Sunday’s chart show...:thinking: We'll see what happens...

 

[Cute Prince101]

This is so cruel and mean, how you can people be so harsh and celebrate the dealth of this woman, I know she upset and ruined peoples lives and i don't agree or accept on what she did to them, which is wrong but no one has the right to so rude to her, its disrepectful, It seems some people in this world have no respect for their elders ( as in Older People ) which makes me so sad and disappointed I know this post is going to get removed but i have say this cause i respect my elders.

 

[zortek]

respect is something to be earned and freely given, not expected and taken.

just because someone is old or rich (or dead) does not mean that they should have to be respected.

if an old person has been a good and humane person, respect them, if they have not why the hell shoud they be given any respect?

 

[haiducii]

This is so cruel and mean, how you can people be so harsh and celebrate the dealth of this woman, I know she upset and ruined peoples lives and i don't agree or accept on what she did to them, which is wrong but no one has the right to so rude to her, its disrepectful, It seems some people in this world have no respect for their elders ( as in Older People ) which makes me so sad and disappointed I know this post is going to get removed but i have say this cause i respect my elders.

:agree:

I still find it very, very poor taste to celebrate anyone's death though.

 

[ihno]

Well, around ten years I've listened to a radio interview with Thatcher, when she had a public appearence, the first after a very long time (don't know the occasion any more).

Anyway, she joked about the film "The Mummy Returns" with Brendan Fraser, saying that it would be an appropiate title for her event too...

 

[Blacky94]

Celebrating the death of other people is just bad taste. I have a hard time actually respecting people who feel happy about the death of others, no matter how good they are otherwise.
Thatcher has been cruel in the past, but in my opinion people, who want to see others dead and feel good about it, are just as cruel.
Answering cruelty with cruelty just breeds more cruelty in the end.
seriously people should just stop. She is dead, plain and simple. don't respect her? then just ignore it.

That is my honest opinion

 

[huggy]

While I am in general agreement with people about not speaking ill of the dead, having lived under her government my view of her will always be coloured by her proposal of this particular piece of legislation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28

 

[clemh01]

I am not saddened by Mrs. Thatcher's demise, but nor am I gleeful. Mrs. Thatcher espoused some heinous policies regarding many different people both gay, straight and in-between. Nonetheless, I am sure her family will miss her and publicly celebrating her (or almost anyone's) death is unseemly.

 

[dargelos]

Recall the reaction to the death of Osama Bin Laden. Not too much sorrow then was there? Was that also unseemly?
People died because of what OBL did and people died because of what Thatcher did.
The increase in suicide, the increase in hate crime, the useless response to the start of the HIV crisis, homelessness, unemployment. Anyone who experienced the Miners Strike experienced a police force at war with its own people. Fan of Jimmy Saville and General Pinochet, so many reasons to remember her with contempt. The song that comes into my head is Tina Turner singing; (private dancer)
" you dont think of them as human
you dont think of them at all
you keep your mind on the money
keeping your eyes on the wall"
What is sad is that she could only die once, instead of thousands of times for the thousands of lives she ruined.

 

[Tjerk12]

In Dutch we have a polite expression for such situations: Ik zal er geen traan om laten, translated: I will not spend a teardrop for her.

 

[ihno]

Oh come on, guys, she had such great hair!

 

[Tjerk12]

Ha, ha. I will complete your sentence: she had such great hair on her teeth!

 

[RufusMc]

Oh come on, guys, she had such great hair!

Don't forget the front bit was a stick on wig thing......

Can't say I approved of her policies towards the LGBT and other communities in her period as PM and I can understand people not having any sympathies for her, cos she didn't have any for others, but I'm not one for celebrating anyone's death.

I am, however, against the money that is being spent recalling parliament (£3700 each MP who returns from hols) to say how great she was and on the over zealous funeral they are arranging.

 

[lunita]

Yeah, her politics and personal opinions may have been a bit hinky but DAMN that woman had stones!!! She took no shit from anyone. She took England into a war that she didn't want to see happen and she won. She pulled England out of slump and made it hold its head up high. Maggie, my god, you were a force of nature. You and I were apples and oranges but I still hold you in the highest regards. Iron Lady, travel safe...

 

[gorgik9]

respect is something to be earned and freely given, not expected and taken.

just because someone is old or rich (or dead) does not mean that they should have to be respected.

if an old person has been a good and humane person, respect them, if they have not why the hell shoud they be given any respect?

:agree::agree::agree:

Exactly! I don't understand why it's so terribly important to respect the proverbial Iron Lady JUST because old age etc.

Remember that it seems that mrs Thatcher herself didn't have any respect whatsoever for Nelson Mandela, calling him "a terrorist" - while General Augusto Pinochet, the boss of the military junta in Chile, got all kinds of respect from dear old Iron Maggie...

 

[dargelos]

She took England into a war that she didn't want to see happen and she won.

She won? It was the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who risked their lives that did the winning. The same soldiers, sailors, and airmen who were unemployed, some homeless, a few years later.

 

[Goatboystef]

Death is sacrosanct, apparently.

 

[SimplyJakeAndAlex]

Dead is dead so get over it

I went through this post with mixed emotions regarding respect to the death and the mistake a new deceased did which won them the hatred of people.

I am a very respectful person as it regards to people who pass away, but sometime (and I mean sometimes) its a relieve to see them finally out of this world.

In the case of Margaret Tatcher, I do not have any specific feelings since I was born in 1976 and whatever she did during those years I was growing up I didn't understand it back then and didn't care so yes in a way I would join all people who says that her death should be respected, but as an historian I am aware of what she did whilst she was in power and that doesn't shine to me at all so in a way I understand people when they seems relieve that she passed away. What she did, has not touched me directly but it did affected some members of my family who really has her far deep in their entrails.

Maggie is gone, as my grandmother, as my decease son, as my first girlfriend. Who they were in their living means only something to those who were closed to them. As a public figure Maggie didn't shine worldwide, her decisions were barbaric and very incandescent and anti-human and yes let's say it "extremely selfish" so I do understand that some people want to celebrate her passing even though she hasn't been active in politic for so long.

In the years 1800, there was a businessman in Canada, he was hated so much that at the annunciation of his death during a ball game, the minute of silence turned into a cheerful scream from the crowd, even though their team has lost, people got out of the stadium and were all very happy and content.

Who shed a tear for Saddam Hussein?, Pinochet, Hitler or any other tirant of the likes... death is very sad yes, but sometime it is a deliverance and as much as you have respect for the death, just know that they're gone and doesn't care anymore as they are not among the livings anymore. As a living I try my best to be kind and generous, but I know for sure that some will have a smirk when I'll pass away and those could be the ones I fired a while ago.

Death is death, they are gone, they'll never come back... respect goes to their families, but even the families of those who did bad deed understand the hatred that the public feels about them. If through out your living you had no respect for anybody, you can be certain that people will enjoy your passing and for them it's a relief and their behaviors is just another way of dealing with their emotions... the one that died have the chance to not have seen it. If there's a life after death I hope that Maggie and all the others understand what they did. Unfortunately WE the livings are the one who have to live with it. So if you want respect, have respect for those who survived them and lived with the scars that those individuals left after passing.

 

[Otage]

Bit mixed feelings here too. I understand that someones passing can be a relief, but I will not hold grudge. If you keep on hating someone who is dead, you will probably have to hate them for the rest of your life untill your own death relieves you from your hate. Death is not a punishment or deliverance in my opinnions, it's just a fact of life.

I have forgiven to people I have hated after they have died. Best way to forget to, move on. I'm not gonna let them cause me anymore hatred. You can't win the dead. We may have to clean the carbage they left though, but damning someone who is already damned while doing so seems like a waste of breath

And I know what Maggie did, but I don't know why she did it. We all are raised on certain ways, we get influenced by different things etc. I mean how many mass murderers has had a really f***ed-up childhood? And Maggie wasn't alone behind her decissions, there were people supporting her. Not gonna dump all on one person. Should try to look at the whole picture and try to learn about the mistakes made.

If I would party about someones death, I would do it when the person is still alive, and make sure he would know what is going on. I mean what's the point after he's gone?:cheers: And when his gone, I would let go:wave:

And just my opinnions! I understand if someone feels more strongly on this subject.

 

[huggy]

Can't wait for Sunday Radio One could be placed in a difficult situation if it is made to play the song on Sunday’s chart show...:thinking: We'll see what happens...

Looks like its going to be our new National Anthem!

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/hijacked-margaret-thatcher-death-song-ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-is-set-to-top-the-charts-8569960.html