Mummy Made Me an Arms Dealer

A few of you - you know who you are - have pointed out that Mark Thatcher was not as reported on 1820 languishing in a South African jail - but in fact probably lounging in his own house.

Ho hum, okay. Now it seems the mad old bat has had to come to his aid and bail him out, which raises a number of questions. Thatcher has come to the aid of her beleaguered son Mark by agreeing to pay the £165,000 bail to release him from house arrest in Cape Town, according to the papers yesterday.
A source close to Sir Mark confirmed Lady Thatcher agreed to pay the money after the two spoke via telephone following her return to Britain from the US on Friday.

The former prime minister's son has spent seven days confined to his Cape Town home since he was charged with helping to fund a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea. Sir Mark and his friends have maintained that claims about his wealth - put at some £60m by the Sunday Times - have been greatly exaggerated.

Asked why Sir Mark was unable to pay the surety himself, the source said: "Who knows? It may be that there are complicated trust accounts and God knows what else ... a lot of people do not have access to that amount of ready cash."

Hmm, yeah could be, that or that his moneys dodgier than a Didge City Dodgem?