How the shades of Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin, Hugh Gaitskell, Jim Callaghan and the other Labour giants who fought Communist entryism from the 1920s onwards must be hoping for a Tory victory on June 8. Such an outcome will allow their once-great party to be recaptured by democrats, people who believe that you can change the world through the parliamentary system. Indeed, that any other way just leads to the chaos, misery and poverty seen after all the Communist putsches in history.

Of course many of the most sinister members of the Corbyn groupuscle that took over the Labour party, owing to the stupidity of giving entryists an electronic vote for £3 in 2015, are not standing in this election. These include Jayne Fisher, a former manager of Sinn Fein’s London office, who is Corbyn’s “stakeholder engagement manager”; Seumas Milne, his press advisor, who has argued that “For all its brutalities and failures, Communism in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and elsewhere delivered rapid industrialisation, mass education, job security and huge advances in social and gender equality”; and James Schneider of Momentum, who has boasted of enjoying seeing policemen routed by ultra-Left demonstrators.

These are not the hapless activists of the Citizen Smith sitcom; they are unpleasant and dangerous people who applauded Corbyn’s invitation of the IRA leadership to tea at the House of Commons only weeks after it had nearly assassinated Margaret Thatcher.