article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage is a 'Victor Meldrew in stilts' whose remarks about immigrants and ethnic minorities reveal the 'truly odious nature of Nigel Farage views', Nick Clegg claimed today in an extraordinary attack on the UKIP leader.
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage has courted controversy throughout the election campaign, in an apparent attempt to generate headlines and shore up UKIP's core vote.
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage was condemned in the first TV leaders' debate for saying people with HIV should not be allowed into Britain and in the second for attacking the audience for being too left-wing.
article_snippet.sent: After criticism that the UKIP manifesto featured almost all white faces, Nigel Farage insisted yesterday that there was a 'half black' party spokesman featured prominently - and 'one fully black person'.
article_snippet.sent: I think the more Mr Farage's thrashes around to get attention the more the mask slips and the truly odious nature of Mr Farage's views become more and more obvious. '
article_snippet.sent: This is someone who is clearly uncomfortable talking about people from different ethnic backgrounds, calls people from different ethnic backgrounds '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.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage's is just lashing around, thrashing around, lurching from one odious gaffe or assertion to the next.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage's claims Mr Farage's wants to take Mr Farage's manifesto seriously and the next Mr Farage's is talking about fully and half black candidates. '
article_snippet.sent: It just beggars belief that it is that kind of person that the Conservative party thinks the Conservative party need to bring back into the fold.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage's said Mr Farage's appeal to UKIP voters 'could not have been more explicit - people like Farage, please come back home'.
article_snippet.sent: I don't think the Conservative should have a home for those kind of views,' Mr Farage's added.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage - appearing on ITV's Lorraine this morning - has courted controversy throughout the election campaign, sparking accusations from Mr Clegg today that Mr Clegg was an 'odious Victor Meldrew' (pictured right)
article_snippet.sent: I really really abhor what Nigel Farage stands for but I don't begrudge the right to say what Nigel Farage says and seek to represent those views in Parliament. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Condemned Nigel Farage for referring to 'half black' candidates and wanting to 'turn our backs on the very sick'
  