When I heard that Nick Clegg was attacked by the Daily Mail recently it really seemed like a dog bites man story. God bless the Daily Mail, but it’s not the sort of paper that will look kindly on a Liberal Democrat. They may like the Democrat bit, but as far as Liberal bit, oh dear.

But when I heard that Nazis were involved I thought how did they manage that?

The story is actually a lot more damning about Nick Clegg, and the whole British political class, than it looks like from the outside. Essentially Nick Clegg took a case where a couple of German people claimed that they had been hounded out of a work place. However Clegg used it in an insane tirade against the British in general.

We have a “misplaced sense of superiority” due to our role in the Second World War and “delusions of grandeur”. He then said that the as a nation we “we need to be put back in our place”.

This was all said while he was a member of the European Parliament.

Forget about the Nazi stuff, it’s irrelevant. It’s the disgust with the people that he claims to want to represent. A disgust that is certainly not limited to the Liberal Democrats, and something I’ve heard from both Labour and Conservatives.

I think it was Nicholas Soames (not a classic outsider) who said that it shows that Nicholas Clegg had “the European view of Britain rather than the British view”.

Although Clegg was more extreme than many others, he is symptomatic of the contempt that the political class feel towards their employers, the British public. This is where Gordon Brown’s bigot comment comment comes from and that is where Mark Dyson’s comment about Ipswich being a provincial town came from.

They are a different class. They lie to us, they don’t like us and they think we should be grateful that we deem to represent us.

That’s why I think Ben Gummer is genuinely different. God knows I disagree with him on a lot, but he knows that his job is to represent us, not to act like minor nobility.