Cause: Revellers said they were 'here to celebrate the death of a woman with blood on her hands for the Falklands and miners'

Eighties Trotskyist firebrand Derek Hatton, a sworn political enemy of Mrs Thatcher from his days as deputy leader of Liverpool City Council, sent one particularly vile message.

He tweeted: ‘The issue isn’t about whether she is now dead, I regret for the sake of millions of people that she was ever born.’

Former London Mayor and Labour MP Ken Livingstone claimed that ‘almost everything that’s wrong with Britain today is her legacy’.

He added: ‘She created today’s housing crisis, she produced the banking crisis, she created the benefits crisis.’

Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, said: ‘We’ve been waiting for a long time to hear the news of Baroness Thatcher’s demise and I can’t say I’m sorry. I will not be shedding a tear for her.’

Eighties Trotskyist firebrand Derek Hatton, left, tweeted his wish that Baroness Thatcher had not been born. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone said today her policies were 'fundamentally wrong'

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said: ‘Mrs Thatcher will be remembered by many for the destructive and divisive policies she reigned over which in the end, even in the Tory Party, proved to be her downfall.

SHE DID GREAT HURT TO IRISH SAYS ADAMS

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams gave a scathing assessment of Baroness Thatcher’s political legacy in Northern Ireland.

Margaret Thatcher had been the IRA’s Number One target – narrowly escaping its devastating 1984 bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton.

Adams, whose voice together with those of fellow Sinn Fein representatives was subject to a broadcast ban during the Troubles, hit out at both her role in Ireland and beyond.

‘Margaret Thatcher did great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time as prime minister,’ he said.

‘Her legacy involves the destruction of communities, the elevation of personal greed over social values and legitimising the exploitation of the weak by the strong.’

Labour shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont came under fire for ‘condoning’ an inflammatory tweet about the former Conservative prime minister.

He was accused of being ‘extremely foolish’ when he described a university student’s political views as ‘spot-on’ following a reference to Lady Thatcher a ‘f***** witch’.

Peter Taaffe, the Socialist Party general secretary, said Lady Thatcher was ‘seen by many as a kind of modern-day Genghis Khan’.

Music star Morrissey, a long-time critic, berated her as ‘barbaric’ and ‘without an atom of humanity’.

Comedians were also quick to add to the insensitive tirade against the former PM.

Comedian Frankie Boyle, referring to IRA hunger strikers, tweeted: ‘Booby [sic] Sands ghost just appeared to me, trying to start a conga’, and added: ‘Thatcher being dead is a lot less tragic than Cameron being alive.’

Disrespectful: Comedian Frankie Boyle tweeted 'Terrible news about Thatcher' and linked to the YouTube video 'Celebrate good times come on!'



Disrespectful: Comedian Frankie Boyle's controversial tweet

'INSULT' AS HOLYROOD FLAGS FLY AS NORMAL

The Scottish parliament caused outrage by refusing to mark Baroness Thatcher’s death by flying its flags at half mast.

At Holyrood, the Saltire, the Union flag and the European Union flag all remained at full mast outside the public entrance, as did the Saltire in front of the government’s nearby St Andrew’s House headquarters.

Parliament bosses said flags will be flown at half-mast only on the day of Lady Thatcher’s funeral, in line with existing policies.

A Tory source said: ‘This is an insult by Holyrood and government bosses.’

Boyle later added: ‘Finally I get to wear my black suit and tap shoes together’ and ‘I’m not sure that Margaret Thatcher got many women into politics, in the same way that Myra Hindley didn’t get a lot of women into hiking’.

TV presenter and stand-up comedian Terry Christian tweeted: ‘State funeral would be an insult to the millions who suffered and the social chaos of gangs, homelessness and hopelessness she brought.’

Footballer Joey Barton tweeted: ‘If heaven exists that old witch won’t be there.’

Dozens of students tweeted their distaste after delegates at the National Union of Students’ conference cheered and applauded when Baroness Thatcher’s death was announced at Sheffield City Hall.



NUS President Liam Burns made a statement a few minutes later, urging the 1,000 delegates to show ‘sensitivity’.

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