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Clegg becomes target of NHS profiteer protest signs

NICK CLEGG’S Sheffield ­Hallam constituency has been swamped by hundreds of for-sale sign-style placards opposing privatisation of the NHS.

The posts were put up across a Stannington housing estate yesterday by health activists from the People’s NHS group.

The posters target David Cameron and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt saying “Cameron and Hunt — Stop the Sale — The People’s NHS.”

But they were snapped up by Mr Clegg’s constituents amid anger over the Deputy PM’s refusal to protect the NHS from privatisation under the TTIP trade deal with the US.

People’s NHS spokesman Alan Short said Mr Clegg must choose between protecting the NHS for the British people or support for the corporations.

“The pressure is piling on Nick Clegg to push his coalition partner David Cameron into either excluding the NHS from TTIP or to use his veto to remove the NHS from this American trade deal,” he told the Star.

Recent polls showed Mr Clegg could lose his seat to Labour as a result of anger at his role in implementing other vicious policies such as the bedroom tax, benefits sanctions and public spending cuts.

But Mr Clegg blithely ignored the Lib-Dems’s role in austerity when he launched his party’s election campaign yesterday.

He said: “Which party stands up for decent British values of fairness, compassion and generosity? Which of the political parties is going to deliver a stronger economy and a fairer society, not force us to choose one or the other, but deliver both.

“The answer is the Liberal Democrats.”

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