Margaret Thatcher Dies

[rrhill]

Ding Dong The witch is dead

BBC 'witch song' insult to Maggie: Corporation to play single driven up by Thatcher haters

• Song has now sold 20,000 copies since Thatcher's death on Monday
  
• It has been pushed up the charts due to an internet campaign
• The track, which costs 79p online, is currently No1 on iTunes
• Also on course to become the shortest top 10 single ever at 51 seconds
• BBC confirms a decision has not been made on whether to play it

Three days before the funeral of Baroness Thatcher, the BBC plans to play the song Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead on national radio. A campaign by Left-wing agitators has caused the song from the Wizard Of Oz to rise to number 4 in the midweek pop charts.

As well as rising up the official charts, the track, which costs 79p online, is currently No1 on iTunes. In the past, songs deemed to be too controversial have been banned from the airwaves by the BBC. But insiders confirmed yesterday that, in a decision which will cause widespread outrage, Ding Dong! will feature in Radio 1's Sunday-evening Top 40 countdown.

Before it is played, it is planned to use a reporter from the BBC1 news programme Newsbeat to explain to the station's target audience of young listeners why the song has risen in the charts. MPs from both Labour and the Conservative party united in saying it would be wrong to give airtime to a song denigrating our greatest peacetime Prime Minister less than a week after her death.
read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ult-BBC-play-Ding-Dong-The-Witch-Is-Dead.html

 

[joninliverton]

Good article in today's Sunday Times. There was a pullout special on Maggie. Apparently America was not so kind to her when the Falklands kicked off and it's all in the article.

 

[rrhill]

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead enters chart at two

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead has failed to reach the number one spot in the music charts. The Wizard of Oz song, which has been at the centre of an online campaign by opponents of Baroness Thatcher, reached number two after selling 52,605 copies.

However it was still more than 5,700 copies behind Duke Dumont and A*M*E with Need U (100%) which remained at the top for a second week.

Rival campaign song I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher entered at 35. The 1979 song by punk band Notsensibles sold 8,768 copies after a late push from Lady Thatcher fans.

The Official Charts Company said Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead was "one of the most controversial chart contenders of all time" following the death of Lady Thatcher last week. On Friday Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said in his BBC blog he had decided Sunday's Official Chart Show would not play the 51-second song in full. He said the decision had been a "difficult compromise", saying he had to balance respect for someone who had just died with issues around freedom of speech.

Instead, host Jameela Jamil linked to a Newsbeat reporter who explained why the song was in the chart. Two short clips of the song were played as Sinead Garvan gave details of the online campaign and explained why opponents had been critical of Lady Thatcher.
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22145306

 

[rrhill]

Margaret Thatcher quotes

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

- Margaret Thatcher

 

[joninliverton]

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

- Margaret Thatcher

Although she did upset quite a few people, she will still go down in history as one of the greatest modern day leaders of any country. I will be silent for 2 mins on Wednesday because I was brought up to respect people and death.

 

[joninliverton]

Tomorrow's order of service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22156159