The hard Left aren’t rebels, they’re just plain nasty

Just before the last election, I was heading into Waitrose, where some personable Conservatives were offering, unobtrusively, to speak to interested parties. They wore V-neck jumpers and were the picture of civility. Suddenly, roaring up from behind me, a young and furious fat man began screaming: “Tory scum! F--- you, Tory scum! You kill people!”

The furious anti-Tory motored into Waitrose, hotbed of the neoliberal

values he presumably loathes, and proceeded to load his basket with dainties (I followed him).

The ever-tightening laws of political correctness decree we must all take care to be ubiquitously “tolerant” and “inclusive”. The only people to whom this doesn’t apply, ironically, are hard Lefties. Their Tory-bashing is in particularly full force at music festivals and “alternative” arts events, and is so extreme and untrammelled that one

band invited to play at Glastonbury this year, Killdren, has a song called “Kill a Tory”, staged a mockassassination of Theresa May and has a Facebook page that called for the deaths of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s children. Another Glastonbury act, Fat White Family, proclaimed that Conservative voters have “blood on their hands” and said: “Execute the f------ lot of them.”

Two years ago, Glastonbury crowds made headlines for swooning “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn” en mass, which may be stomach-turning but is not violent. This time, Killdren went too far, and have been uninvited. Fat White Family, however, will still perform. The tradition of maverick British punk rock is a proud one, but these bands aren’t rebellious, they’re plain nasty.