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"We're all in this together" is populist rhetoric and you should see through it for what it is. These cuts are economically necessary and ideologically sound, don't be distracted by snippets like this. £10mill is nothing compared to the UK budget. Even if this wasn't a state funded funeral, huge sums of taxpayer's money would be spend on security anyway.
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Honouring the dead is not the antithesis to Thatcherism. Look at the economic cost of the Falkland's campaign and the year-on-year increase in state spending under her watch - there is more to Thatcher than just economics. Her championing of the Open University is another great accomplishment that goes unacknowledged by the left. Social mobility was high on her agenda.
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Thatcher was elected to three terms with an unquestionable mandate each time. Far more than half the nation approve of her legacy, there is a very vocal (and often misinformed) minority which doesn't recognise her for the hero she was - and most of these are net recipients of state funding anyway so I'm not sure why they have such an interest in spending all of a sudden.
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