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While it might at first glance appear distasteful to speak of so recently a deceased person in the manner we see here, the speaker of Parliament at the time, Bercow, put it in perspective at the end of the video by pointing out that the matter at hand was not tribute but a debate over a motion of tribute. Recognizing that such a tribute also implied a tribute to an ideology that happens to have taken on the name of the deceased, Thatcherism, Jackson is spot on to point out the shortcomings of that ideology and its chief standard bearer. It was a debate over a motion, not a tribute in an of itself. Neither would I call it a tirade… tirades are what we see in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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While it might at first glance appear distasteful to speak of so recently a deceased person in the manner we see here, the speaker of Parliament at the time, Bercow, put it in perspective at the end of the video by pointing out that the matter at hand was not tribute but a debate over a motion of tribute. Recognizing that such a tribute also implied a tribute to an ideology that happens to have taken on the name of the deceased, Thatcherism, Jackson is spot on to point out the shortcomings of that ideology and its chief standard bearer. It was a debate over a motion, not a tribute in an of itself. Neither would I call it a tirade… tirades are what we see in the U.S. House of Representatives.