article_snippet.sent: Clegg today pleaded with Labour and Tory supporters to vote tactically to stop Alex Salmond in Alex Salmond tracks.
article_snippet.sent: In a highly-unusual move, Lib Dem leader urged Lib Dem leader rivals to help stop Alex Salmond from 'strutting Alex Salmond stuff' in Westminster.
article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg, who today visited diving equipment manufacturer Divex Global in Aberdeen, urged supporters of rival parties to help stop Alex Salmond returning to Parliament .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg's told reporters that the SNP offered the 'politics of division'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg's said: 'When I speak to people in Gordon and elsewhere, people in Gordon and elsewhere say 'Let's move on' - people in Gordon and elsewhere don't want the politics of division from the nationalists, people in Gordon and elsewhere want the politics of hope, of unity, of continuity.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg's dismissed as 'ludicrous' suggestions that it was hypocritical to urge supporters of other parties to back the Lib Dems to stop the SNP if Mr Clegg's was not prepared to tell Mr Clegg's voters to put his voters cross in Labour's box in seats where Ed Miliband's party is battling the nationalists.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking to reporters on Mr Clegg's campaign bus, Mr Clegg's said: 'It's not up to Mr Clegg's to appeal to Lib Dem voters to vote for other parties, it's for other parties to make other parties case.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg's added: 'Of course I am not going to start telling Lib Dem voters to vote for other parties.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg said Mr Clegg would 'let the SNP and Labour fight it out and talk to those voters'. '
article_snippet.sent: It's not for me to start telling Lib Dem voters to do anything other than vote Lib Dem.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg dismissed as 'ludicrous' suggestions that it was hypocritical to urge supporters of other parties to back the Lib Dems to stop the SNP if Mr Clegg was not prepared to tell Mr Clegg voters to put his voters cross in Labour's box in seats where Ed Miliband's party is battling the nationalists .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg blamed Labour's failings for the current political landscape in Scotland. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg also took Mr Clegg campaign against the SNP to West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, where Sir Robert Smith is hoping to hold on to Sir Robert Smith seat.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lib Dem leader makes highly unusual plea for help from party rivals .
  