A 74-year-old song in the classic movie Wizard of Oz is enjoying again immense popularity in the UK, and pundits link the entry of Judy Gardland's Ding Dong the Witch is Dead to the UK's iTunes Top 10 charts to the Monday death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Huffington Post reported that the renewed popularity of the song, which celebrated the death of the Wicked Witch of the East caused by a tornado, was not a haphazard coincidence.

While the daily pointed to the song's Facebook fan page having more than 4,000 members, it acknowledged the link of the Iron Lady's demise to the song.

But Huffington Post stressed that celebrating the death of a former PM, although it may be an uncomfortable idea, is somewhat popular in the entertainment world. It cited Morrissey, who authored the anti-Thatcher song Margaret on the Guillotine, and immediately wrote a post in The Daily Beast that described Ms Thatcher as a terrors sans "an atom of humanity."

The paper also cited a blog in the daily written by Russell Brand, which pitied the Thatcher twins, Mike and Carol, for being raised by an iron mom.

Other Britons were more direct in expressing their dislike for the Iron Lady by holding parties.

Even before the death of Ms Thatcher, stars of the popular American TV series Glee recorded their version of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. The YouTube posting of the Glee version has more than 200,000 hits.

The Iron Lady's death has certainly divided not only Britain, but the world because of the key role she played in the major international events such as the 74-day Falklands War.

To haters of Ms Thatcher, 87, the statement by Morrissey summed up their feelings toward the Iron Lady.

"Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others," Morrissey said in a statement.

Other female politicians, however, saw in the baroness the leader who led is smashing glass ceilings for women leaders.

In an article for The Telegraph, Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye Amber Rudd wrote, "Examples matter. Much of the momentum that propelled Barack Obama to the White House was about having the first black man in as a President. Even then, there were those who whispered until the last moment, their certainty that when it came to the privacy of the ballot box, Americans just wouldn't do it. But they did, and he proved, just as Margaret Thatcher did back in 1979, that an individual in politics can achieve the highest office despite the fact that they are different to what has come before."

She pointed out that the admirers of Lady Thatcher are the association members in seats held by Conservative MPs, stressing that "their fears of the dangers of selecting women were quashed by the Iron Lady, and my female Conservative colleagues and I are the beneficiaries."

10 Downing Street, in fact, is not denying the major role that Ms Thatcher had in resolving the Falklands crisis, and announced on Wednesday that the theme for her April 17 funeral would be the Falkland War.

The former PM's pall bearers will be 10 Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel who are currently serving in ships and regimens that played a key role in the 1982 war.

Another 700 armed servicemen and women will also participate in the ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral.

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