"The foreigners, they all hate us"

Rod Liddle, The Spectator

Quoting the Daily Mail's infamous distortion ("Nazi slur") of an article written by Nick Clegg in 2002, this is what Rod Liddle wrote:

"This is interesting because it is precisely the views of almost all foreigners, except for maybe the Norwegians. Nick seemed to have formed these notions while serving as an MEP, open to the influence of those Europeans around him and to whom he was inclined to suck up, and maybe also the input from his Spanish missus (they really hate us) and his own Dutch ancestry. From Skagen to the Straits of Gibraltar we are disliked – largely, I always thought, because we were one of very few European countries to emerge from the second world war with any credit, and that this credit was resented. But for the leader of a party which wishes to devolve all of our powers to people whom we either liberated or defeated, these are entirely fitting views. He is in step with Brussels".

[note Liddle's own photo from about 76 years ago. C'mon, Rod, get on with it, we're all getting older!]