Outraged Conservative MPs call for Ed Miliband to disassociate himself from T-shirts rejoicing over moment Margaret Thatcher dies

Commemorative T-shirts rejoicing in the moment when Baroness Thatcher dies are being sold at the annual trades union gathering in Brighton. The T-shirts, on sale at the Trades Union Congress’s annual conference, cost £10 each and boast that union members will want to "dance on her grave" when she dies.



Outraged Conservative MPs have called for Labour leader Ed Miliband to disassociate himself with the TUC and for the police to investigate. The T-shirts, which are wrapped in clear plastic, are being marketed by the Derbyshire Unemployed Workers Centre, an organisation which provides "welfare rights advice services" and which is affiliated to the TUC.

The T-shirts build on the residual anger in the union movement over the way major British industries were allowed to decline in the 1980s, while unions saw their influence wane because of tough anti-strike laws. Shay Boyle, who has so far sold six of the T-shirts, said £2 from every sale went towards the centre, which has had its funding cut by £40,000.


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He joked that “Scottish people seem to like them”, adding that many people agreed with the sentiment but did not want to buy one. Conservative MPs criticised the T-shirts as tastless. Conor Burns, a Tory MP who regularly visits Lady Thatcher at her home in central London, said: “These sickening sentiments speak to something disordered in the human condition. It shows an ugly side to the hard left who cannot move on from their utter defeat at the hands of this remarkable, but now frail, lady.”