Union Flag & Bermuda Flag To Fly At Half-Mast
Union Flags and Bermuda Flags will be flown at half-mast on Government buildings for the remainder of today [Apr 8] and tomorrow following the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Government House announced today.
Governor George Fergusson said, “For a whole generation, Lady Thatcher defined British politics and her remarkable period as Prime Minister made its mark not just on Britain and the Overseas Territories but on the wider world.
“She visited Bermuda several times, including for a summit in 1990 with President George H. Bush, and spoke last time she was here in 2001 of how much she and her husband always loved their visits. I send my condolences to Lady Thatcher’s family at this time of great sadness.”
Union Flags and Bermuda Flags will be flown at half-mast on Government buildings for today and tomorrow, and also on the day of the Ceremonial Funeral.
Update Apr 9: A photo of the flag at half mast outside the Cabinet building is below
Horrible, horrible woman. Ruined British Industry, dismantled the welfare state and did it with pomposity and arrogance.
Great, great woman. Reinstated British Industry (by switching it from mineral extraction to financial services), dismantled the Unions and did it with charisma and flair.
The Thatcher/Reagan/Gorbachev era is one that only occurs too few times in a lifetime. They were true leaders and the world was better for them. Like them or hate them, they were true to their ideals and their ideals were right. The world needs their type right now.
Easy for you to say. If you were 50 years old and English, you might well disagree. If you saw the pain she caused, you wouldn’t make the sort of “World view” statement that comes with not living somewhere where world things happen. Ask my Dad, and the other 7,500 people who lost their jobs in his Nottinghamshire Colliery. She was a witch.
Regardless of your personal feelings, a woman a leader died today, how about just a little respect!! This is one of those times that if you don’t have something nice to say… Shut the f@#& up
it’s you that needs to STFU…you have NO idea of the way she was!
Hope someone treats you the same the day you die…….. And yes, I have met her, multiple times. And yes, we have different views…. But I respect the memory of a persons life…
Tough and uncompromising at a time when it was needed, she pulled Britain back from Bankruptcy and supported Bermuda to become the business center in was. Those that hate her for what she did, refuse to acknowledge that is she hadn’t done it, Britain would have been a crippled country. Even the labor party realize what she did and haven’t tried to take Briton back done that path because of the disaster that it led to in the 70′s
Love her or hate her, if you fail to show her respect she has earned, then you have no notion of what hard work means, because there are only a few who have ever had to work harder, and far fewer still alive.
Rest in Peace you have earned it
Maybe your dad and his colleagues shouldnt have been greedy sods, and held the country to ransom for as long as they did, the three day working week comes to mind!
Hows that Arthur Scargill doing these days, i see he put up a bit of a fight when the Trade Unions said they couldnt afford to pay for his plush flat in London anymore! All fool the miners in following him over the cliff!
Yeah, inefficient mines closed down. So were factories that made buggy whips. And all those workers who used to make 9 inch black and white tv’s were thrown out of work as well.
The 1970′s had been miserable in Britain. The country was held to ransom by the unions. There were strikes for any half-assed reason. They had three day day week and power cuts. Then Thatcher came in and fought to make the country competitive again. Most people liked her in the 1980′s. She won 3 elections, and when she lost her Conservative leadership it was only because she withdrew, having gained “only” a simple majority in the first round, rather than a landslide. She defeated Scargill, and she defeated the Argentine agressors.
Many people will be glad she is dead…me included.
As`for flags at half past…the hell with that…
RUST IN PIECES
Check out the Facebook campaign to make “ding dong, the witch is dead” the UK number one. Love it.
Tramp the dirt down.
I’m pleased the flag was correctly named as “the Union Flag”.
I agree with glory,glory and chuck d. She was also a racist !!! She embraced South Africa when that wicked Botha was killing and jailing the blacks! She was heartless!
I am afraid I can’t give the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher all that praise. I am a trade unionist and this Prime Minister had no sympathy for the labour movement in her country and as a result in smashing the miner’s union brought great suffering for the miner’s communties. She did not support the liberation strugggle in South Africa
and called Nelson Mandala a terrorist . Let Bobby Sands die in prison when this Irish nationalist endure a hunger strike to the end. Called 9
other Irish freedom fighters criminals when they do endured a hunger strike to the end. The conservatives in heaping all this praise on her at her death have prove themselves to be hypocrites since it was the conservative party who ploted and finally force her out of office
Alvin, you’re talking about IRA terrorists who blew up children on buses. They can all starve to death and rot in hell as far as I’m concerned. “Freedom fighters”. You’re an idiot.
Tell that to the parents of the two little boys blown up on Warrington Railway Station. Prick.
think I’ll fly the skull n cross bones today at full mast!
Atrocities were carried out by both sides in that conflict; whether it was the victims of bombs set off by the IRA or the Protestant pra-military groups. Selected assassinations carried out by gun men of both sides. the shooting of unarmed protestors on the street by British soldiers. War is not pretty and civilians are often caught in the middle. Even today when America sends it’s dromes to attack insurgents in Afghanistan or in the border lands of Pakistan;civilians continue to die. But it remains a truism One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter
So setting off bombs killing innocent bystanders is an ‘atrocity’, but you call the people who set off those bombs ‘freedom-fighters’. You have no idea what you’re talking about do you.
Mad Dawg and Sandgrownan are right about you.
who cares