Nick Clegg: Kingmaker could be Alex Salmond, Nigel Farage or me
Nick Clegg says the era of one party Government is over. He says he is not denying that either Ed Miliband or David Cameron and he is offering himself as the clear choice instead of Nigel Farage or Alex Salmond.
“Ask yourself this: Do you want Nigel Farage walking through the door of No. 10? Do you want Alex Salmond sat at the cabinet table or do you want the Liberal Democrats.
“We will add a heart to a Conservative Government and and a brain to a Labour one.”
The room really liked that line.
Nick Clegg is talking very little so far about his policies and a lot about how terrible Nigel Farage would be for the country. he says he will cast aside shared British values.
He has also been saying Alex Salmond will be Ed Miliband’s SNP savior, not Nicola Sturgeon (who many people in England have rather warmed to since her widely applauded performance in the leaders debates). He says this is because Salmond is standing for parliament , and so he is the “one who wants to sit in Westminster to have his say over how the whole country is run”.
He says a Miliband/Salmond Britain will be “crippled with reckless borrowing”and the future of the United Kingdom would be in the balance again.