Lib Dems: Salmond is as bad as Trump
THE LIB Dems yesterday compared the SNP to Donald Trump, UKIP and right-wing Brexiteers.
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and the party’s only Scottish MP Alistair Carmichael made controversial comments at their spring conference in Perth.
Clegg claimed there is an “almost umbilical link” between the English nationalism of hard Brexit Tories and the “absolute fixation” that the SNP have to push for indyref2.
He added: “They are almost like political cousins. They loathe each other but need each other.”
Former Scots Secretary Alistair Carmichael compared Alex Salmond to former UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Donald Trump. He said all three spoke the same “divisive” language of nationalism.
Carmichael added: “Alex Salmond will tell you that all he wants is for decisions about Scotland to be made in Scotland.
“How is that different at its heart from Nigel Farage wanting to take back control or even Donald Trump wanting to do deals, great deals, that put America first?”
Former first minister Salmond said: “When Alistair Carmichael insults the SNP, he insults the huge number of Scots who vote SNP.
“His behaviour at the last election and attempted smearing of Nicola Sturgeon shows the political depths to which he stoops.”