Thatcher’s legacy is on-going.

The first female British Prime Minster, the first to win three consecutive general elections, the longest serving PM in 150 years, solved Britain’s chronic economic problems turning her form the sick man of Europe to a healthy and vibrant economy, instrumental in ending the cold war plus liberated the Falkland Islands. And my favourite achievement of all, slayed the old left here in the UK and in Europe. Yet some question the viability of giving her a fitting send off!?

Come on!

Those who can’t see she deserves the best funeral money can buy, lack serious common sense and decency.

Now a vile song celebrating her death tops the charts and possibly makes it on radio in time for her funeral!

All of that embarrasses me when friends and family from outside the UK ask in horror are these Brits insane? Where I came from, when an important elder pass on, people and communities chip in to give them a fitting farewell. And no one speaks ill of the dead. But if they must, they wait until they are buried.

At first I used to cringe. However, after watching some of the debates and hearing from those who knew and worked with the Baroness, I realised that she won’t have wanted it any other way. I can picture her smiling at all the hullabaloo and the fuss made over her, over her legacy, her funeral both negative and positive. As someone who never shied away from an argument or denied people their voice and their say. Margaret Thatcher will be happy that people showed their feelings, let rip and spoke their minds. She wanted and always encouraged people, inside and outside this country to have a voice and speak up. It is one of the things that made her the great and rare conviction politician that she was.

This entire commotion after her death and over her funeral is just another addition to her legacy.

May she rest in eternal peace!