Thatcher-bashing is luvvie elite’s favourite pastime

WHAT’S the difference between a genocidal Nazi murderer of six million Jews, a notorious Islamist terrorist who orchestrated the 9/ 11 attacks on America and the first woman to be democratically elected as prime minister of the United Kingdom?

Nothing at all, apparently. At least according to a prestigious, publicly funded London museum, headed by a former Labour MP.

The caption that identifies this unlikely trio as the sort of contemporary villains that a Punch and Judy show might feature appears in a special exhibition on British humour. But we can be fairly certain that the curators who wrote and approved it are not joking.

Such is the abiding hatred of Britain’s luvvie elites for the Iron Lady that they can see nothing wrong with putting her on a par with two of the most tyrannical mass murderers of the 20th century.

An ‘unpopular public figure’ in the refined salons of SW7 Mrs T may well be.

The millions of Britons who elected her prime minister at three consecutive general elections would disagree – not to mention the many Tory voters who hanker for a Thatcher- like leader to stand for election and rescue the country again today.

The V&A has some form when it comes to Thatcherphobia, having once turned down the opportunity to add her businesslike outfits to its famous fashion collection.

Later, in 2016, when the V& A did display some of the former prime minister’s clothes donated by her children, the senior curator of fashion said the exhibit would be ‘ a record of the working wardrobe of one of the most influential and powerful women of the 20th century’.

Whatever anybody thought of her policies, who could argue with that description of Mrs Thatcher today? Except, it seems, the current one-eyed curators of the V&A.

No doubt it is entirely coincidental that the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum has since 2017 been Tristram Hunt, the Blairite former Labour MP and shadow minister for education.

The Punch and Judy exhibit looks like the latest example of how the woke elites are giving a beating to Britain’s history across our leading museums and cultural institutions.

Normally, trendy critics of this traditional seaside puppet show focus on the domestic violence of Mr Punch hitting Mrs Punch and their baby with his big stick.

But it seems they are prepared to make an exception when it comes to their own traditional pastime of Maggie-bashing.