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steve2470

(37,456 posts)
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 06:33 PM Dec 2014

Union officials pinch Margaret Thatcher portrait from pub - and photograph it on TOILET seat

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/union-officials-pinch-margaret-thatcher-4763878

(yes original headline)

Union officials are under fire after they pinched a Margaret Thatcher portrait on a pub crawl - and photographed it on a toilet.

Members of the Scottish branch of the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) stopped to enjoy a drink at Chancellor George Osborne's local, the Red Lion pub in Westminster following a visit to the Houses of Parliament on official business.

But they then "liberated" the oil painting from a shelf above the bar, and took it with them as they carried on drinking at other pubs.

The FBU officials posed for snaps with the painting at the head of the table at a nearby restaurant, and pictured it on a toilet.



Sounds pretty funny to me!
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Union officials pinch Margaret Thatcher portrait from pub - and photograph it on TOILET seat (Original Post) steve2470 Dec 2014 OP
A fitting throne for Margie. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #1
She should be below the seat not on top. PumpkinAle Dec 2014 #2
LOL Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #4
so many of us think of Marge olddots Dec 2014 #3
Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle on the £3million cost of Thatcher's state funeral: alterfurz Dec 2014 #5
Liverpool soccer fans chanting about Thatcher. . . DinahMoeHum Dec 2014 #6
The video is not working for me. BeanMusical Dec 2014 #10
"We"re gonna have a party. . ." DinahMoeHum Dec 2014 #13
The Day that Margarett Thatcher Died swilton Dec 2014 #7
I just watched the Iron Lady movie. Meryl Streep astonishes. Voice for Peace Dec 2014 #8
She was a raygun in a dress Omaha Steve Dec 2014 #9
Way worse than Raygun IMHO. BeanMusical Dec 2014 #11
Not sure that a photo of Thatcher is appropriate... T_i_B Dec 2014 #12

alterfurz

(2,467 posts)
5. Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle on the £3million cost of Thatcher's state funeral:
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 07:19 PM
Dec 2014

"For £3million, they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we would dig a hole so deep that we could hand her over to Satan personally."

DinahMoeHum

(21,737 posts)
13. "We"re gonna have a party. . ."
Mon Dec 8, 2014, 08:35 AM
Dec 2014

(tune: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow)


We"re gonna have a party. .
We"re gonna have a party. .
We"re gonna have a party. .
When Maggie Thatcher dies,

When Maggie Thatcher dies,
When Maggie Thatcher dies,


etc.


T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
12. Not sure that a photo of Thatcher is appropriate...
Mon Dec 8, 2014, 04:03 AM
Dec 2014

....anywhere outside of a Conservative club.

Same applies for pictures of any other politician if you ask me.

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