Margaret Thatcher funeral: a "fitting tribute?"

Someone is not happy to pay for Thatcher funeral. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AFP/Getty Images

Samantha Cameron eschews all black in favour of nude shoes and Maggie's favourite, the pussybow. Grazia here she comes! Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

You got to love the British

The freedom of expression is amazing

But the one who said "Let's privatize her funeral. Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. It's what she'd have wanted," takes the cake

Gaijin said:

But the one who said "Let's privatize her funeral. Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. It's what she'd have wanted," takes the cake

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lol. Dah!

A protester display slogans and banners (and his back) on the route. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images

Another union flag on a spectator waiting for the funeral procession. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters

Military match band.

A woman holds her patriotic dog outside the Houses of Parliament. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

Office workers watch the funeral procession. Photograph: Kevin Coombs/Reuters

The great and the good arrive at St Paul's. Singer Katherine Jenkins. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown with his wife Sarah. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Home-made signs appear to be popping up everywhere.

Here Mary MacMillan makes her anti-Thatcher feelings known in Trafalgar Square. Photograph: Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images

Heightened vigilance by the police is the order of the day.

Here officers watch over screens, at the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Operations Room in Lambeth, south London. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

Residents from mining communities near Barnsley, North of England, put out banners. Photograph: John Giles/PA

Gaijin said:

You got to love the British

The freedom of expression is amazing

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A Thatcher supporter displays his tattoos prior along the route. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Gloria Martin, a supporter of the former prime minister, wipes her tears as she joins others by the route. Photograph: Kevin Coombs/Reuters

EMT said:

Residents from mining communities near Barnsley, North of England, put out banners. Photograph: John Giles/PA

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I know I shouldn't laugh but I just cant help it when I read some of these signs

:thinking:

And here they are in the grey light of dawn as they are joined by others keen for a good view of the procession. Photograph: Kevin Coombs/Reuters

His sign says it all: Bashkim Krasniqi, 28, from Kosovo alongside Daniel Chapman, 19, and his mother Susan, 46, from Lincolnshire (England), spend the night waiting opposite St Paul's cathedral ahead of the funeral. Photograph: Matt Devine/Barcroft Media