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Al-Hoceima Hello and welcome. Later on the programme... Jeremy Corbyn

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comments went down well but was that because the audience was not well

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represented or did the BBC handle the programme Rob Lee? And where

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these pictures worthy of the attention they received? First,

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election campaigns are often defined by actual or perceived blunders but

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politicians caught on camera and microphones replayed endlessly

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increasingly so in the media social media age. Jeremy Corbyn had this

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encounter on Tuesday. How much will it cost to provide a means tested

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childcare for 1.3 million children. It will cost... It will obviously

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cost a lot to do so... I presume you have the figures? I will give you

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the figure in a moment. You do not know it? You are logging into your

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iPad. You're announcing a major policy and if you do not know how

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much it will cost. It featured on BBC but many viewers felt that too

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much was being made of a memory lapse...

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Another few recorded her thoughts for us on video. On Tuesday, we had

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the perfect illustration of the differential treatment of Labour and

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the Conservatives. Headline News on all the broadcast media because

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Jeremy Corbyn forgot her figure. Compare that to the treatment of

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Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who on the today

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programme got his figures out by ?20 billion. It might have been balanced

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if they mention that Labour had a fully costed manifesto whereas the

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Tories manifesto was totally uncosted. Another election

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controversy followed on Wednesday after a debate featuring

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representatives of the seven main parties, including Amber Rudd and

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Jeremy Corbyn. I was thinking how chaotic it would be if they all got

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together... It felt by some viewers that it fell into chaos at times.

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One told us she found debates like that...

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More contentious the reaction of the audience put together by the polling

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company who were commissioned by the BBC. Have you seen people sleeping

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around our stations... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Have you seen the level...

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Jeremy Corbyn can you respond to that point... I am proud to lead

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this party and I was a late did. -- elect did. When Amber Rudd spoke,

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the audience responded in a less enthusiastic way. We have made it

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clear decision to make sure that we protect the poorest in our society.

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You have not. The pensioners will be protected. Judge us on our record...

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LAUGHTER. The following morning, the Daily Mail front page screamed of by

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yes and the Foreign Secretary called the audience the most left-wing he

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had ever seen. It was a yammering cacophony of views, many of them

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left wing. Even by the BBC standards, he would agree the

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audience was notably to the left of many people in this country. What

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did Newswatch view is think? One joins me. I was actually shocked by

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the audience reaction I thought the jeering and sharing of some people

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but the jeering of others was unacceptable. It seemed to be that

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the audience was, at least 80%, left of centre in its buyers and I

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thought that was completely unrepresentative of how the country

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votes. You raise the issue of whether the audience was unbalanced.

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The company said this earlier in the week. The reality was, the audience

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was scrupulously put together, select it and verified and I think a

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politician's clapometer is not the best way to judge how the voting

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public is, to open the bonnet and understand how the audience was put

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together. It is like constructing a giant 3-D jigsaw. You have to look

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how representative is... Making sure it is a conservative of the 2015

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result, the current voting tensions, the people who voted remain, until

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you it absolutely was. You raise concerns about the panellists. What

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was your concern about the way they came across and the way the debate

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worked? I do not understand why there were seven speakers and a

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number of them are from very small parties. If you look at the way

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people voted, one got .6% of the vote in 2015 or stop they all got an

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awful lot of air time and I do not know whether the audience... They

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say everyone was represented, was the Conservative audience of 40

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times... I just do not believe the audience was representative of the

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country. You also spoke about the sense that five leaders were

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essentially ganging up on Amber Rudd stop what could or should the BBC

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have done differently? It was very difficult. It is send it into chaos.

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It was shouting match. I thought Amber Rudd actually did very well,

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under a lot of aggression. I think that the presenter should have

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stopped some of these shouting. I think perhaps the BBC should have

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thought about the format. Seven speakers is too much. Perhaps two

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presenters. Ground rules at the beginning about not making personal

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attacks and not shouting at people. Basically it was a complete turnoff.

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I know a number of people who turned off the TV. At think it put most

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people off politics. We asked the BBC to come and talk about the

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concerns. No one is available at we do have a statement... -- but.

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That is what the BBC have had to say. A final word to you. I do not

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think that is correct. I do not think... I think the militant side

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of the audience hijacked the programme. I think it is happening

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more and more and I think if they were... If there was more central

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right wing viewers perhaps they did not want to speak up and be

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subjected to a barrage of abuse. Thank you very much. Finally, the

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aftermath of last week 's bomb attack in Manchester continues to

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attract headlines. CCTV footage of Salman Abedi Salman Abedi heralded

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as a feature. Contact a Mac a young man in a hooded top, on his own on a

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Sunday morning shop. In this footage obtained by the BBC, he looks

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relaxed as he is captured on CCTV browsing the shelves. He spent a

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pounds 74 and bought armaments, tuna, scouring pads and air

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freshener. Staff in the shop believe this was Salman Abedi Salman Abedi.

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Some viewers said they found this for you we stick and lacking in the

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news value. One recorded her thoughts on camera. I simply could

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not understand why that was considered to be major news and to

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warrant the main spot. Of course, such a great event needed extensive

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coverage but the coverage it should have been in use and not

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sensationalism. So many other things happened that week which were not

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mentioned or received a very scant coverage, to name one, 26 people

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were killed on a bus in Egypt and yet it was hardly mentioned. I felt

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really sad that taxpayers money is used to fund public broadcasting

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that sometimes sinks to the level of tabloid journalism. Thank you for

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all your comments this week. If you want to send us your opinion, call

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us on the telephone number on the screen. You can also e-mail us. Post

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your comments on Twitter and have a look at how website. -- our website.

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We are off air next week in the aftermath of the general election

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that in a fortnight we will be looking back at the campaign

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coverage. We'll do the easy bit first and then

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I'll give you the forecast, which is probably the bit

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you're after, anyway. A mixture of sunny

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spells and showers. Friday was not just

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as straightforward.

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