Moment Nigel Farage challenged the audience - BBC News

Nigel Farage gets combative, saying there is a "total lack of comprehension on the panel" - and in the audience. That gets a reaction. David Dimbleby tells him the audience was selected by an independent organisation.

[mili]

"the real audience is sitting at home" lmao spot on

[matthewgreen]

"The real audience are sitting at home"

That's got my vote!

[kennethallen]

An audience being carefully chosen

“Very carefully”

[stansmith]

"THE BBC has confirmed the hand-picked audience for last night’s election debate WAS left-leaning – though Nigel Farage was booed for pointing this out"

[GeoffreyBronson]

Why do we even need audiences on these debates? They don't represent me and they swing the vote with their applause and jeers. Nigel's right as per bloody usual.

[bearberenstein]

The real audience is sitting at home, so very true.

[adamrules]

100% correct in everything he said. And still to this day the BBC haven't learnt.

[Paulz]

BBC: this audience was carefully chosen to represent all parties
audience: Boos only nigel and claps for others against him

[bossendenwoodconvict]

Very brave Nigel. As a member of the real audience I appreciate the fact that you are so beyond all the nonsense of the other parties. When the other leaders speak you just look straight ahead, you are beyond them, so many of us are. It took me a long time to wake up, I was a Labour voter three times, then voted once each for the Liberals, Greens and Conservatives. I really tried to understand them. But Labour led us into foreign wars and the both Labour and the Conservatives gave away our sovereignty to Europe. I thought well, I'll vote Green, you can't dislike them and all the other parties try to have a bit of green in their policies to look good! But I  notice to my horror that the greens want to build 500, 000 new houses in our overcrowded island. This is ungreen and unsustainable.
 Watching this I feel the other leaders are like members of a cult. They are all sining from the same hymnbook, although perhaps they are on different pages. When Nigel speaks it all makes sense. So real people, here is our representative, you know what you've got to do, go out on election day and do it.

[TheAgeofPaine]

MarkReckless "It was like a student union debate on how to spend other people's money, Nigel was the only adult in the room"

[thomasedgerley]

BBC, you had the moment on iPlayer where there is a live audience, the YouTube audience is far more pro UKIP, this was a bad move.

[theearlofgrantham]

Nigel talked a LOT of good common sense ideas here and the audience was stone cold to it. He was right to voice his concerns. If Nicola Sturgeon had said any of what Farage said, everyone would have cheered. If anything, the audience looked very seriously bias in favour of the SNP and against UKIP.

[ronaldmccain]

I am not a UKIP supporter, but let's be honest the audience were completely biased (or those that upreared were). It seems, in my opinion, that the audience as well as the panel was anti-UKIP. Some of the points, Nigel mentioned were completely valid and it was made public by the moderator (David, that is) that input from the audience should have not been included. Yet, throughout the night the audience was bashing and ultimately crucifying this man. This debate exemplified the bravery Nigel has, and despite his views I admire him for that.

[Simplyphenomenal]

Haha nigel is the man. Never afraid to tell it how it is

[HDHuxley]

Nigel Farage is simply class, he caught them out red handed and embarassed them. well done Nigel.

[guidofarage]

He was absolutely right. Let's put things into perspective: 

UKIP are polling roughly 15% of the electorate. 
The Tories are polling roughly 35% of the electorate. 

That's 50% or 1 in 2 broadly-speaking "right-wing" thinking people, and yet the audience - Plaid and the SNP, got huge claps every time they spoke, and frankly I didn't anything of much worth coming out of that Taffy's mouth bar "austerity, austerity." The Greens and Labour also got loud applauses particularly when denouncing Cameron and tory cuts. UKIP hardly got a clap, despite around 75% (according to polls) of people in Great Britain wanting big changes to immigration, and 1/6 people who are going to vote UKIP. 

You're meant to be impartial BBC, you're meant to represent us. Why couldn't you have an audience where 20% were UKIP, 20% labour, 20% SNP and so on....therefore total impartiality. 

The truth is, you cultural-marxist, politically-correct tossers don't represent ordinary, straight-thinking British folk, and you merely speak for your champagne socialist friends in Hampstead that read the Guardian and froth at the mouth over everything Jeremy Clarkson or Nigel Farage says. 

Thankfully, things are changing, and the views of narrow-minded, bitter, left-wing cretins like the people who run your organisation are on the decline.

[kenpowell]

I noticed that they wouldn't let him continue speaking . Where did that happen before and in what country ? .

[BBCNews]

Here's the moment when UKIP leader Nigel Farage accused those attending the BBC's election debate of being a "left-wing audience" before suggesting "the real audience are sitting at home". #BBCdebate   #ge2015  

[Slade]

He's got a point. Regardless of the bias, having a participating audience in a debate always bullshit and pointless regardless of whether it's "unbiased" or not. These debates should be about what the politicians have to say, not about "randomly selected people's" reactions. Anything other than leaving that for the viewer will be a huge bias whether intended or not.

[lambern]

The amount of times I've watched question time and "oh boy is it a left orientated audience"