Why the saboteurs should simmer down

LIKE the mating dance of the warthog, a must-see ritual of the natural world is the British Left throwing a fit of the vapours over a headline in the Mail. The latest to provoke hysteria was our front- page summary of why Theresa May called for a snap election: ‘Crush the saboteurs.’

‘Nasty and divisive!’ tweeted Labour’s IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah-sympathising John McDonnell (look who’s talking!). ‘This kind of hate and aggression is the last thing the country needs,’ whimpered the ever-smug tax avoider Gary Lineker.

‘Fascist!’ said a Guardianista. ‘Stalinist!’ opined another, with some halfwit tweeting: ‘Stalin killed millions by labelling people saboteurs and enemies of the people. Literally the same words as the Mail. Chilling.’ Not for the first time, this paper advises: calm down, dears.

For the avoidance of doubt, neither the PM nor this peace-loving paper proposes genocide. All Mrs May plans, with our support, is an election to establish her mandate for pressing on with Brexit (backed by 52 per cent) without further frustration from ‘game-playing’ Remoaners and an unelected second chamber.

As for the word ‘saboteurs’, how else to describe a Labour Party which has threatened to vote against a final agreement with the EU? Or Lib Dems who say they want to grind government to a standstill? Or Scots Nats who say they’ll vote against legislation repealing our EU membership?

If they don’t like being called saboteurs, shouldn’t they give up the sabotage?

And how striking that many who criticised the Mail were the very same people who likened Mrs May’s call for an election to the move by Turkey’s human rights-violating dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to increase his powers. What a contemptibly stupid and offensive comparison.

We have long known the Left demonises anyone with whom it disagrees. But this is getting ridiculous.