Nick Clegg loses his cool with Lib Dem voter

 

Nick Clegg lost his cool with a Lib Dem voter who accused him of being on an ‘ideological crusade’ and attacking society’s poor during a heated debate at Newcastle College.

 

The robust exchange began when Craig Toft, who voted Lib Dem in this year’s General Election, told Nick Clegg that he would not be doing so again because the Deputy Prime Minister was slavishly following the Tory agenda.

 

When Mr Toft, 33, attempted to question Mr Clegg about the part the Lib Dems are playing in the coalition, he was continually interrupted by the Deputy PM.

 

Mr Toft, from Wallsend, North Tyneside, asked: 'I'm just wondering how you intend to persuade future Liberal Democrat voters to vote for you at the next election now that you are part of a coalition that's seemingly on an ideological crusade to attack the weakest in society and make them pay for the decisions and greed of those at the top in the last ten years or so years?'

 

Mr Clegg replied: 'Tell me where the ideological crusade is?'

 

Mr Toft countered: 'Well, the Tory rhetoric that we've heard from Cameron.'

 

Mr Clegg’s hackles were clearly raised as he replied: 'No, no, no, don't tell me about the rhetoric of other parties, tell me what's happening to suggest to you there is a crusade to hit the weakest?'

 

Mr Toft attempted to answer, but was cut short: 'The rhetoric around...'

 

'No, no, what's happening to hit the weakest?' Mr Clegg fired back.

 

'In the last two or three weeks you hear David Cameron talking about...'

 

Mr Clegg interrupted again and repeated his question: 'No, no, no, what's happening to the weakest that tells you there's a crusade against the weakest?'

 

Mr Toft this time was allowed to answer in full: 'Housing benefit cuts; intentions around jobseekers allowance, moving people around JSA and basically saying to people that you need to find a job right away and there aren't any jobs to be able to do it.

 

'It's easy to take decisions against people that don't necessarily have a bigger political voice such as yourselves or the ruling elite in London.'

 

Mr Clegg, in a lengthy reply, accused Mr Toft’s argument as being lazy and misleading, and stated that there was ‘no evidence to the case’.

 

Say hello to the leader of the Conservative Democrats. Can he even believe he said all this after what he campaigned for?

 

Source: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/838619-nick-cl...h-lib-dem-voter

Edited August 20, 201014 yr by Grandwicky

In Nick's defense, he's probably still disorientated having only just climbed out of Cameron's arse for the first time in 3 months.

The man can't take the truth.

Well done to Mr Toft... He's spot on the money as far as I'm concerned... Clegg has just completely lost the plot now, time for him to go....

 

And, from what I've been seeing in the past week or so another opinion poll came out which put support for Fib Dems at about 8%.....

Well done to Mr Toft... He's spot on the money as far as I'm concerned... Clegg has just completely lost the plot now, time for him to go....

 

And, from what I've been seeing in the past week or so another opinion poll came out which put support for Fib Dems at about 8%.....

That wasn't a proper poll. It was a Sky News viewers poll so has no legitimacy whatsoever.

That wasn't a proper poll. It was a Sky News viewers poll so has no legitimacy whatsoever.

 

Yeah, okay, whatever, but put together with all the OTHER ones which say they're losing support...... :rolleyes:

 

That wasn't a proper poll. It was a Sky News viewers poll so has no legitimacy whatsoever.

 

I can't take an opinion poll seriously after watching this: