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It seems the Victoria and Albert Museum has offended Tory sensibilities by putting Margaret Thatcher on display as part of a piece on villains. The others included Adolf Hitler and one of the other horrors who tortured and butchered thousands and millions. And, worse, they represented her with a sort of Spitting Image puppet.

To many Brits, Thatcher is a villain. The poverty and decimation of our industries and economy can all be directly traced to her policies. She is an intensely divisive figure. According to polls, the British public loves and despises her in roughly the same proportions – 50/50.

Spitting Image sent her up several times as a Nazi… When she was ousted, the programme did a sketch with her cabinet in a mock beerhall dressed as Nazis singing ‘We were only following orders’. On the wall behind them was a painting of Thatcher as a medieval knight on a horse, parodying that one of Hitler. When the Leaderene finally died, street parties spontaneously broke out across Britain, but particularly in the northern communities she’d ravaged. They were burning her in effigy! This is astonishing. I haven’t seen it done on the death of any other politician.

The conclusion:

If you are going to ask questions about political authority, and what counts as a villain, then it seems to me to be entirely reasonable to include Thatcher because of the controversy that surrounds her, her continuing unpopularity and closeness to some of the real monsters.

Source: V&A Put Maggie on Display as a Villain Like Hitler: Tory Media Outraged | Beastrabban\’s Weblog

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