BBC Question Time Audience Member Lambasts 'The Sun' For Hypocrisy Over Corbyn Coverage

'The Sun's' managing editor was brutally shut down by a 'Question Time' audience member on Thursday in a heated row of the paper's treatment of Jeremy Corbyn.

Stig Abell attempted to interrupt the man while he criticised the scale and style of the Sun's reporting of the Labour leader's appearance at the Cenotaph during the Remembrance Sunday service.

The man, wearing a bright yellow shirt with a distinctive feathered hat, pointed out the contrast to the paper's coverage of the size the bow with David Cameron's 'photoshopped' poppy received relatively little attention.



"If we're going back to disrespect during the proceedings, David Cameron had a poppy photoshopped onto him earlier on the day and Boris Johnson was caught talking during the minute's silence, you didn't mention that" the audience member told Abell.

"Both of those things were widely reported, I think that's right" the Sun man replied, to which the audience member said: "It wasn't widely reported in the same way that you widely reported 'Jeremy Corbyn what a nasty person he is'.

"It is a horrible way to treat a person, and it's not just 'The Sun', it's a great many of the national newspapers."

But as Abell attempted to interject, the audience member leveled his cutting reprimand.


Stig Abell reacts to the man's interjection

"Listen, pal, I'm speaking, shut up."

David Dimbleby interjected to suggest the man shouldn't tell members of the panel shut up, but allowed him to continue to make his argument.

"It's not just 'The Sun', it's the whole of the Murdoch empire who has taken against Corbyn and... if it happened in the street you'd be arrested," the man continued.


The man embarked on a no holds barred attack of the Sun's reporting

"You say that the criticism came from 'The Sun' but it came from people in his own party, it came from people watching the television," Abell said.

People were quick to react to the man's bold interjection.

Love this guy! #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/Qc0Ipo15TN

— Paul Lang (@rudemrlang) November 12, 2015

Man in the hat on Question Time just got an editor at the sun telt. Hero. #ManInTheHatForPM

— Emma Wilson (@SonicOomph) November 12, 2015

I think 'stop speaking, shut up' is what most people want to say to The Sun to be honest, not just this guy in the hat #QuestionTime #BBCqt

— Jane :) (@janeahen) November 12, 2015

Glad the guy who works for the Sun is being absolutely ridiculed on question time

— Ant O'Brien (@antobriennn) November 12, 2015

On Sunday, Corbyn was almost immediately criticised for the sound of his bow with former Conservative defence minister, Sir Gerald Howarth, saying Corbyn was an "embarrassment" and that remembering Britain’s war dead "requires complete commitment".

At the other end of the scale, David Cameron's bow was so low it caught the cameraman unprepared.

The exchange came during a heated episode from Stoke-on-Trent which hosted Ukip's Paul Nuttall, Labour's Lucy Powell, the Conservative's Sajid Javid, as well journalist and transgender activist Paris Lees, alongside the Sun journalist.