Party! Leftist Brits pretty excited that Thatcher is dead

This is probably just a more advanced demonstration of what you might see here when, say, Dick Cheney dies some day. Live it up! Nothing says life fulfillment like hearing about the death of someone with whom you disagreed politically, if that's all you've got in life. Take some Dramamine before you watch this:

The champagne spraying is a nice touch, and for those of you still mad at me because I called you stoners last week, maybe you could high-tail it to London and join the party with this beauty queen:

The Daily Mail notes that a lot of the revelers are too young to even remember Thatcher's tenure as prime minister, so they're either indulging the excuse to party or they're credulously drinking in whatever propaganda they hear from left-wing media, university professors or whoever. But the vitriol doesn't only come from idiot partiers:

Eighties Trotskyist firebrand Derek Hatton, a sworn political enemy of Mrs Thatcher from his days as deputy leader of Liverpool City Council, sent one particularly vile message. He tweeted: ‘The issue isn’t about whether she is now dead, I regret for the sake of millions of people that she was ever born.’ Former London Mayor and Labour MP Ken Livingstone claimed that ‘almost everything that’s wrong with Britain today is her legacy’. He added: ‘She created today’s housing crisis, she produced the banking crisis, she created the benefits crisis.’ Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, said: ‘We’ve been waiting for a long time to hear the news of Baroness Thatcher’s demise and I can’t say I’m sorry. I will not be shedding a tear for her.’

In the service of intellectual honesty, I challenged myself as to whether I might ever find myself tempted to act this way upon the death of a much-disdained political figure (or non-political, for that matter). Mention the name Jimmy Carter to me, and I will grit my teeth as my skin crawls. Whenever the day comes that he is no longer among us, I will surely not write a glowing tribute. But act like this? Not only would it be disrespectful to the office of the presidency and, indeed, to our very nation - but even beyond all that, I simply cannot imagine beclowning myself in this way. I hate to think this is what we've come to a civilization. And I hope I never see the day when conservatives act like this.

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