Best I can find:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/elections/n...1272472225700A
Always nice to read what he actually said and in context:
Quote:
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Mr Clegg, who was an aide to Tory Lord Brittan during his period as a European Commissioner, said: "I used to work for one of them, for Leon Brittan. They were being hunted down like a fast disappearing species by their own party at the time. It was horrible to watch. It really was very unpleasant this rise of nasty, insular, in some cases outright xenophobia."
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He was talking in reference to being asking how many Tories were still pro-European. He then gave the above quote (after mentioning Ken Clark). So he
didn't call British people nasty and insular. In fact he didn't even suggest all Tories were but rather the Tories who attempted, in Clegg's view, to sideline the pro-european members of their party.
So once again it's a quote taken out of context to smear Clegg. Although to be fair Hannan is not exactly in the Tory Mainstream.
I suggest people do consider the source before believing something otherwise I might as well just spend the remaining week posting
links from the Daily Mirror.