The Victoria and Albert Museum has sparked anger by naming Margaret Thatcher alongside Hitler and Osama bin Laden on a list of ‘unpopular public figures’.
Britain’s first female prime minister was labelled a ‘contemporary villain’ in a display on British humour through the ages.Near a display about Punch and Judy at the London museum, a sign states: “Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher and Osama bin Laden, to offer contemporary villains.”The wording caused an angry backlash and sparked calls for it to be stripped of funding.
” Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “Given the fact that MPs are now regularly receiving death threats, myself included, from extremists and others, this V&A exhibition is ill-thought and mendacious,' he said.“They must live in a bubble, away from the real world, to think that it is rational to propose that a politician of the stature of Margaret Thatcher would equate to any of those mass murderers and vile human beings.“This sort of idiocy begs the question about funding.
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