Bush Sr, Kissinger, Gorby, Pinochet at Thatcher's 80th birthday bash?

The official list of non-UK VIPs has yet to be announced for Thursday's reunion of the New World Order for Thatcher's birthday... ...

So far:


Queen to be at Thatcher's 80th birthday party

Michael White, political editor
Tuesday October 11, 2005
The Guardian


The Queen will make a rare personal gesture towards the political elite which runs the country in her name when she attends Thursday night's 80th birthday celebrations for Margaret Thatcher.

Nearly 700 of the former Conservative prime minister's friends and colleagues, including some former enemies, will be at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge, a brisk walk or bus ride from Buckingham Palace. The VIP list will include Tony Blair, who ostentatiously consulted Lady Thatcher in his early years in power, and showbusiness luminaries such as Dame Shirley Bassey, Andrew Lloyd Webber and his old partner, Tim Rice.

Lady Thatcher is staying out of the current Tory leadership battle, having backed a series of losers. But only two of the five runners are on Thursday's list: a signal of favour towards Thatcherites David Davis and Liam Fox.

Sir Geoffrey Howe, whose resignation speech triggered the 1990 crisis which brought her down, has been invited, along with other Thatcher cabinet grandees, Lords Lawson, Parkinson and others. Sir John Major, with whom the increasingly frail Lady Thatcher has been reconciled, was invited but unable to attend. But the Thatcher twins, Carol and the disgraced Sir Mark, will be there.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,9061,1589316,00.html

Services to idiocy?

that Denis was given just after Thatcher was kicked out of Number 10, presumably because they knew that way they could give both him and Mark an award without having to justify any ability on the idiot son's part (or run the risk of him sitting in the House of Lords). According to Wikipedia, this is the only one awarded since 1965.

but these people are just too vile to think about much.

jabs...