Nick Clegg: Nigel Farage is ‘an odious Victor Meldrew on stilts’
Nick Clegg inspects a wheel earlier today
He’s really pulling no punches in this an interview with the MailOnline:
“This is someone who is clearly uncomfortable talking about people from different ethnic backgrounds, calls them ‘half’ and ‘fully’ black, but is also someone who advocates basically turning our backs on people who are very sick and kind of indulging in a language that is so divisive, so odious.”
He adds: “He is just lashing around, thrashing around, lurching from one odious gaffe or assertion to the next. There is no pattern.
“One moment he claims he wants to take his manifesto seriously and the next he is talking about fully and half black candidates.
“You are either serious or a kind of Victor Meldrew on stilts. Which one are you?
“It just beggars belief that it is that kind of person that the Conservative party thinks they need to bring back into the fold.”