If you watch Thatcher's funeral, when the coffin was borne past the Queen, she gave a little nod. Not a bow. Just a nod. But perceptibly, she did it and, whatever else Thatcher was (and I did neither like, nor approve of her influence), you have to give her points for just that one little nod from a Queen who has seen so many PMs come and go.

Last edited by Dudley Clarke (2014-10-25 16:23:42)

I think most rational people do.

^    ...the best yet from Dudders

^Thatch and Supermac were not really patrician in any pure way -for a start they were both too lose to trade roots (Byron refused to be paid for his early poems as a gentleman would not take pay -he did eventually as he was always broke). Supermac was a better fake than Thatch but, like Brummell and Disraeli, they didn't fit into any known category and they made their own - that's why we remember them and why, despite all their faults, we admire them; nearly treasure them: they didn't fit the rules and conventions and so they made their own but they made themselves so that they didn't upset anyone too much.