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TORY Prime Minister David Cameron begged people to vote for him yesterday, saying Britain would “take a sharp turn to the left” if Ed Miliband becomes PM.
Mr Cameron took aim at people who plan to vote for other parties but who, he believes, are secretly keen on seeing him remain in power anyway.
“You cannot vote Ukip and have me remain as your Prime Minister,” he chided, adding: “If you are considering voting Lib Dem and think that will result in me being Prime Minister that won’t work either.”
Mr Cameron also descended to personal abuse, calling his Labour counterpart a “goon” for talking to anti-austerity comedian Russell Brand.
The PM then ramped up his anti-Scottish scaremongering, saying that Mr Miliband could “only become prime minister with SNP support” which would come at the cost of “more borrowing and more taxes to pay for more welfare.”
But Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman countered: “All this talk about coalition is coming mostly from the Tories talking up the SNP because they are their best hope of stopping Labour.”
And Mr Miliband hit back, denying that there would be “any special deals for Scotland” but adding: “I tell you this — if I am prime minister there won’t be any special deals for bankers or hedge funds or energy companies either.”
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg continued to bleat that his party should stay in government even if humiliated at the ballot box, claiming that without the Lib Dems “Miliband would be on a life-support machine and the SNP could pull the plug at any moment” while Cameron “will become hostage to his own right wing.”
Communist Party chairwoman Liz Payne said the PM was right that “the people of Britain will be making a historic choice on Thursday.
“When they cast their votes they should bear in mind one thing only — that the Tories and the millionaires and billionaires they represent must be defeated.”
The return of Labour as “the only viable alternative” would “allow the working class to begin to turn the tide on austerity and privatisation and lining the pockets of the rich,” she said.