Daily Express

Bullies are shamed by suicide girl of 14

- By Natalie Chalk

“Clegg is an embarrassm­ent to the Coalition for his gaffes. I don’t have and don’t want a free bus pass. I pay for my TV Licence as I am 66 not 75.

“Why doesn’t Cameron silence this idiot Clegg?

“How many more gaffes can he spout off on TV? Makes the Coalition look like a joke.”

Asked during his weekly Call Clegg radio show on LBC 97.3 how he felt about Lord Sugar’s rant, a laughing Mr Clegg said: “He’s slightly thin- skinned.

“He drives around in this great big Bentley on prime- time television, he wafts around the House of Lords in ermine and then he seems to be very offended when I point out that he has got a bob or two. I don’t see why someone like him should be entitled to a winter fuel payment.

“No doubt, having said that, I will get another torrent of classic Sugar tweet abuse. Anyway, that’s the way I see things.”

Alan Sugar became Baron Sugar of Clapton in 2009. The self- made multi- millionair­e was given the peerage by Gordon Brown after he served as Mr Brown’s enterprise tsar. He was knighted in 2000. It is not the first time Mr Clegg and Lord Sugar have become involved in a public spat.

Last year Lord Sugar branded Mr Clegg an “idiot” and a “twit” over a similar issue.

The Labour peer tweeted: “The twit Nick Clegg moaning about me having a bus pass. Idiot. I haven’t got one.”

He then added: “I have paid tens of millions of pounds in tax and my companies hundreds of millions. What has Clegg done?” A TEENAGER driven to kill herself by bullies has shamed her tormentors from beyond the grave in a harrowing poem called I Give Up.

Izzy Dix, 14, was found hanged at her home last month after being the victim of vile taunts.

Her family say she took her life after struggling to cope with the abuse – much of it by anonymous cyber bullies on the controvers­ial website Ask. fm.

Izzy’s mother Gabbi, of Brixham, Devon, has now published a poem which her daughter wrote about her feelings of isolation months before her death.

The tormented schoolgirl describes how she is “chiselled away by cruel remarks and perception­s”.

In one heartbreak­ing section, she writes: “They begin to tell me that nobody wants me there. They tell me to leave and that I am not wanted. I give up.”

Gabbi is campaignin­g to have Latvian- based Ask. fm closed down.

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