Nick Clegg has laid into David Cameron for his speech earlier this week when he (Cameron) told the "poor and fat" to take responsibility for their lives. Speaking in Glasgow East, Clegg said:
David Cameron claimed here on Monday that you were the example of everything that is wrong with this country and that your problems are all your own fault.
He should apologise for that disgraceful slur on the real people who struggle hard every day to make a good life for their family in a place that has been brutally neglected by Labour and Conservative politicians for decades.
I have been lucky enough to have had opportunities in my life. But I believe there is no place in politics for those who have been lucky or privileged to show such contempt for the poor and the forgotten.
There is a simple choice in this by-election. Labour offer the politics of neglect. The SNP offer the politics of opportunism. The Conservatives offer the politics of contempt. Only the Liberal Democrats offer the politics of hope.
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