Several hundred people gathered in south London on Monday evening to celebrate Margaret Thatcher's death with cans of beer, pints of milk and an impromptu street disco playing the soundtrack to her years in power.

Young and old descended on Brixton, a suburb which weathered two outbreaks of rioting during the Thatcher years. Many expressed jubilation that the leader they loved to hate was no more; others spoke of frustration that her legacy lived on.

To cheers of "Maggie Maggie Maggie, dead dead dead," posters of Thatcher were held aloft as reggae bass lines pounded.

Clive Barger, a 62-year-old adult education tutor, said he had turned out to mark the passing of "one of the vilest abominations of social and economic history".

He said: "It is a moment to remember. She embodied everything that was so elitist in terms of repressing people who had nothing. She presided over a class war."

Builder Phil Lewis, 47, a veteran of the 1990 poll tax riots, said he had turned out to recall the political struggles the Thatcher years had embroiled him in."She ripped the arse hole out of this country and we are still suffering the consequences."

Not all those attending were old enough to remember Thatcher's time in power. Jed Miller, 21, clutching a bottle of cider, said:
"She was a bit before my time, but family never had anything good to say about her."

Not all were there to celebrate. Student Ray Thornton, 28, said he was there to commemorate "victims" of Thatcherism."It is a solemn day. It is important to remember that Thatcherism isn't dead and it is important that people get out on the street and not allow the government to whitewash what she did," he said.

Unemployed Kiki Madden scrawled "you snatched my milk and our hope" on a fence and said she felt slightly guilty taking delight in Thatcher's death, "but in the end I can't deny the fact that Thatcher made me so unhappy when I was a kid. I grew up in Liverpool and all my friends' dads lost their jobs on the docks under Thatcher. It was an awful time."

Alex Bingham, a local Labour councillor, condemned the event, taking to Twitter to brand it disgraceful.

In Glasgow, more than 300 people gathered in the city centre for an impromptu party, organised on Twitter.

Members of organisations including the Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation, the Communist party, the Socialist party, the Socialist Workers party and the International Socialist Group, were joined by members of the public in George Square.

A chorus of "so long, the witch is dead" erupted, along with chants of "Maggie Maggie Maggie, dead dead dead," from the gathering as champagne bottles were popped.

http://guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-party-brixton-glasgow

Yeah,saw it earlier
The same fate awaits the creek bandit aka JoeSlow
Boys go shack beer bottles like die when hin peme
Remember Abacha too

ochukoccna: Yeah,saw it earlier
The same fate awaits the creek bandit (you know who)
Boys go shack beer bottles like die when hin peme
Remember Abacha too

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Maxymilliano:

Yeah, and certificate forgers ...

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Celebrate Thatcher's death?.
Were this ppl to be Nigerians, a con3 blessed and destined for greatness but held down and ra.ped like a homeless biatch by IBB and successive govts till date, wat wil they do?
Ds is wat i call a revolution! It might nt necessarily entail killing our leaders but condemning their acts by way of occupying.
It behoves on u nd i to take back our beloved con3 4rm ds hawks or we shall wake to find no con3 at all and d hawks changed abode. It behoves on us to protect our future nd dat of our children.

"The evil that men do live after them".

Look at them, disgusting loafers! They miss the days when they could lazy about and demand high salaries, go on strike whenever they like under their bloated unions, maggie changed all that and created a more sorphisticated nation. She established thatcherism in britain to the point subsequent labour governments had to tow her line. Celebrating her death is silly because they too will die someday but when they do no one will neither mourn or celebrate because they lived an inconsequential life. She made a difference that's why she's mourned and scorned in death.

Exactly, Buhari's death will be celebrated for setting Nigeria 16 years back.

To add insult(salt) to injury, Buhari want to taste what he destroyed.

1supremo: "The evil that men do live after them".