Considering Quote by Frankie Boyle

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over…

— Frankie Boyle

“Some in Westminster have talked about her receiving a state funeral when she dies, which seems a bizarre sort of tribute to someone who…

— John O'Farrell

About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

— Ken Loach

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't…

— Meghan O'Rourke

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the…

— Norman Tebbit

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and…

— Joyce Cary

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales

— Andy Zaltzman

“Britain is no longer ‘Thatcherite’, though in the aftermath of ‘Brexit’, it may even be worse. The need to temper British imperial nostalgia with…

— Shashi Tharoor

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her,…

— Hugh MacDiarmid

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

— Steven Morrissey

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.

— Nicola Sturgeon

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself.…

— Jane Campion