Within moments of Theresa May’s call for snap parliamentary elections last week, the crap takes began dribbling in, hot and steaming. Naturally, not a single mainstream outlet in the United Kingdom believes that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn can do anything except crash and burn.

Dan Hodges, political commentator for the Mail on Sunday, posted a strong contender for worst tweet of the election season just twenty minutes after May’s announcement, quipping “Dear Corbynites, what happens next, and what happens to the country over the following 5 years. You did that.”

Perhaps it’s modesty, but it doesn’t seem to have occurred to Hodges that his own sterling work in the Mail, whose sister paper is affectionately known as The Daily Heil — or indeed his repeated and definitive insistence that he will vote Conservative in any election in which Jeremy Corbyn appears on the ballot — might actually have done more to help the Tories win.