Zimbabwe’s top cleric wants Britain to save his country by invading it.

ZIMBABWE’S leading cleric has called on Britain to invade the country and topple President Robert Mugabe. Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, warned that millions were facing death from famine, unable to survive amid inflation believed to have soared to 15,000%.

Mugabe, 83, had proved intransigent despite the “massive risk to life”, said Ncube, the head of Zimbabwe’s 1m Catholics. “I think it is justified for Britain to raid Zimbabwe and remove Mugabe,” he said. “We should do it ourselves but there’s too much fear. I’m ready to lead the people, guns blazing, but the people are not ready.”

Some parts of Zimbabwe have seen 95% of crops fail, leaving families with only two or three weeks’ food supply to last a year. Prices in the shops are more than doubling every week and Christopher Dell, the American ambassador, predicts that by the end of the year inflation could hit 1.5m%.

Suppose there were such an invasion and people were killed. The Brits would be castigated for warmongering. Nevermind that millions may have been spared. To the Left, out of sight is out of mind.

Remember, Saddam murdered several hundred thousand Iraqis during the 1990s and no one gave a damn. Kill 30,000 while liberating the place and it’s an outrage.