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Originally Posted by Damien
I don't think the BBC select the audience, it's outsourced to the polling company.
There are a number of questions after that in how they've been selected, how do you decide to 'reflect the population' and are some more vocal than others. For example did they select people from Cambridge which may impact upon the audience? When Question Time is in some northern industrial towns for example they're far more Brexit-friendly than an audience in London.
The audience on Sky were more hostile to May on Monday as well. In the QT Leaders Specials in 2015 it was Miliband who got the worst of it.
I think the audience were hostile to the Tories but I don't think the BBC stacked the debate, even if your prone to believing they would this would be a very crude way to do it.
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There was many who didn't clap, I noticed when Corbyn spoke.
But there was a group who cheered and clapped him nearly every time and he was extra cheered outside when he arrived. It looked staged, like when cameras are allowed around North Korea and it's citizens put on an act for their leader. It's like he's being propped up to make him look more popular than possible ?