Nine charged over Thatcher protests

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NINE people have been charged after hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central London to protest against Margaret Thatcher's legacy and mark her death with a party.

Police arrested 16 people, in the early hours of today for a range of offences including assaulting police, affray and drunk and disorderly.

The group was from just one of the 25 planned protest parties expected across England between now and Wednesday at the funeral for the former prime minister. who died last week at the age of 87.

Police have now been criticised for now reacting to the growing hate over the planned military funeral procession for the three-time prime minister with anti-Thatcher banners now springing up at football matches, ironically two of which this weekend were marred with unrelated bloody brawling between fans.

Police will be joined by the military including an SAS unit to ensure the safety of mourners at the funeral, including the Queen and Prince Philip as well as foreign leaders and dignitaries including former Australian prime minister John Howard.

More protest parties are planned in the run-up to the funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

Meanwhile, left-wing British MP George Galloway will attempt to frustrate plans to suspend parliamentary question time on Wednesday so that MPs can attend the funeral.

The MP has vowed to block the motion for the temporary suspension to drop question time, despite appeals from both the Tories and Labour.

Mr Galloway has said he will take advantage of Commons rules which mean that if one MP shouts "object" the motion will either have to be withdrawn, allowing PMQs to go ahead as normal, or the Government will have set aside parliamentary time on Tuesday so that it can be debated and voted on.

It comes as Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott has bitterly condemned the decision for the taxpayer to foot the bill for the funeral, expected to cost up to A$14 million.

Opponents of Margaret Thatcher gather at an anti-Thatcher "party" in Trafalgar Square in central London.

He claimed the Thatcher funeral was nothing more than a "political propanganda exercise" for the Tories.

"I despised everything she stood for," he said today.

"She may have been a woman, but in her policies she showed no compassion to the sick, needy and the desperate. Even in death she is spinning from her grave. She claimed she didn't want a state funeral but she planned to give herself the same ceremonial one as the Queen Mother."

Yesterday, the think tank Conservative Way Forward Group - founded by Thatcher supporters in 1991 - unveiled plans for a library to be named in her honour to be built at Westminster.
 

Hundreds of Margaret Thatcher opponents have filled London's Trafalgar Square for a rain-soaked celebration.

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