Well, of course.

Firstly - as the article points out - the audience was picked by ICM (not the BBC) to represent the make-up of the parties taking part. The audience was therefore obviously going to be mostly left-leaning because most of the parties were.

Secondly, it has to be remembered that the leader debates have been set up the way they have been not because the BBC and the other TV companies wanted them like that, but because that's how David Cameron wanted them.

The BBC was basically given Hobson's choice: Cameron would only agree to any debates if they were entirely on his terms.

Cameron insisted on the initial 7 leader debate instead of the originally planned "big 4" (him, Miliband, Clegg and Farage) to reduce the image of a "divided right" (i.e. him being attacked by Farage) and replacing it with a "divided left" left scenario as Miliband would get attacked by the other party leaders who were brought in. The defining image of that debate was Sturgeon laying into Miliband as Cameron looked on from the sidelines, grinning like a Cheshire cat as he watched Sturgeon do his work for him.

Last night's debate was planned in a similar way - only the Tories prevented the Lib Dems from taking part so there was no chance of any Government representative being held to account this time. Again it was Miliband who was targeted (defining image: the "group hug" by the three female leaders), with Sturgeon once again conveniently playing along to current Tory campaign strategy by insisting on a Labour/SNP deal and all the time Farage (the Tories biggest worry) looked isolated and frustrated.

Job done, Cameron...

He's not right at all.  Dimbleby told him straight how the audience was selected independently.  The right wing always tries to shut down debate by making accusations of bias. 

It's a bit rich for right wingers to accuse Question Time of being biased when so many right wing hacks (including Farage) appear on the show.

The print media is not representative of public opinion.  Only one daily national backed Labour in 2010, one backed the Lib Dems, the rest backed the Tories.  If that was truly representative of public opinion, the Tories would have won every seat in Parliament. 

Farage spends all his time preaching to the converted and being praised by right wing hacks who work for the interests of non-dom tax avoiders.  Naturally, Farage is like a fish out of water when confronted with an audience that is a cross section of voter opinion, rather than what the noisy right wing chattering classes in London's square mile believe is a cross section of voter opinion.

English teacher takes red pen to mistake ridden UKIP flyer http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/17/...154407/?ito=facebook

"Will take back control of our boarders."

"I think you mean borders, not residents of a school or guest house!"

Ha ha, appalling piece of electoral literature.  More so as Kippers often bemoan the current standard of education, particularly in English, and constantly hark back to the good old days of Grammar Schools.

Quite!

I think they all went to 'Grammer Skool' instead!