Thatcher in prison

[GuavaHalf]

How many of you just can't help smiling every time you think of Mark Thatcher (no way am I calling him 'sir') spending 15 years in a South African prison? Bet he wriggles out of it though.

[Elfin]

Those permanently scarred by the "Thatcher years" may confess to an inner glee at the thought of any member of that family languishing in discomfort and shame anywhere...

[andy hughes]

The collision between a cunning and avaricious child of an overbearing fault-blind mother is not new - it just happens that in this case, the protgaonists are famous, or should that be infamous. I'm trying hard to be objective and adult about this, but I'm failing - I'd like to see both of them suffer for being the dreadful people they are.

[beale]

I'm with Guavahalf and Andy Hughes on this one, as much as I'd like to show some maturity about the situation. You're right though, I bet a fair few strings are being pulled at the moment.

[WaldoMcFroog]

I thought the view expressed by Carol Thatcher(Mark's twin, no less) was instructive, 'My thoughts are with my mother right now.' How damning is that?

[thewillow]

If anybody gets a chance read John O'Farrell in today's Guardian. Page 21. "I blame the parents." Hilarious. politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,1291898,00.html

[Quizmonster]

I loved the banner headline in 'The Times' the other day. It read: "Thatcher held"...if only that had appeared twenty years ago, I thought!

[lookslikemik]

Excellent last sentence in the original question: "Bet he wriggles out of it though". I can just see him now, locked in some fetid South African sinkhole, slithering his slimy way out through the bars and off to freedom.

[lookslikemik]

From the "It's too much to hope for, surely" column: 'Sir Mark Thatcher could be handed over to cannibal said to eat testicles' Life would be so dull without the Sun!

[vittoria]

I agree with Andy Hughes.

[saffstar]

Stuff maturity HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[brawburd]

I'm smiling!

[GuavaHalf]

thewillow - read it, loved it!

[Drewhound]

The news that Jeffrey Archer's name has popped up as well makes me even more depressed. Oh bah, I've just slipped in a crocodile tear

[thecooler]

I find it it odd that this item took precedence over the news of 80 dead in Russia. Oh, but - 'No Britons were involved'. BTW, if Thatcher is so reviled now - Who the hell voted for her for so long?

[saffstar]

Not me, I have the cast iron excuse that I was a child & they wouldn't let me vote

[bernardo]

Actually no. My instinctive reaction to the story was to think that he's probably got nothing to do with any of it (apart from having one or two dodgy friends) and that I hope it gets cleared up soon. Hence there is nothing to "wriggle out of". Just because he's a twit with a bad sense of direction and an incorrect choice of parents doesn't mean that he's another Archer or anything.

[archbishop]

I've taken note of those low lifes who have slandered St.Margaret and her blessed offspring.

[Cheesefreek]

Yes he is a plonker. But what a clever plonker (up to now). Useless academically (me too) but why not milk Maggie's name. If he can get money from idiots who react to the Thatcher name - then good for him. More fool them. I know the attempted coup is for oil - but why have a conscience about it when the current dictator lives like an evil king while his people suffer. Wish they'd succeeded.

[number8]

Agree wholeheartedly with Cheesefreek: the current dictator is a tyrannical despot - the country is one of the richest in Africa and yet he kees his people in abject poverty. 'tis also interesting to note the hatefilled answers from the usual liberal leaning contributors.