‘Not you!’ QT audience member’s stunning point on BBC bias leaves Rees-Mogg in stitches
BREXITEER Jacob Rees-Mogg erupted in laughter after a Question Time audience member claimed the BBC showed Brexit bias by using “less intelligent” Leave voters in its campaign coverage.
Question Time audience member slams BBC on Brexit coverage
The Question Time audience member suggested the BBC were slanted against Brexiteers during coverage of the campaign.
The audience member said: “With respect, I think the BBC have been biased against Brexit.
“I think that during the referendum campaign, what you often did was you got someone very intelligent to speak on behalf of Remain and you managed to get someone less intelligent to speak on behalf of Leave.
“I personally believe that was the case.”
But the audience member’s claim backfired when Jacob Rees-Mogg, a prominent Leave campaigner, took offence to remark and bowed in laughter to the audience.
The crowd were in stitches as the young audience member then said: “Not you Jacob!”
Following the comment, feminist writer Germaine Greer asked why the Bank of England could not find a British Governor and questioned why Mr Rees-Mogg didn’t get Mark Carney’s job.
Mr Rees-Mogg gave a humorous response and said: “As the gentleman at the back said, I’m not intelligent enough.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg blasts BBC as Brexit Bashing Corporation
Mr Rees-Mogg also renamed the BBC the “Brexit bashing corporation” during the show on Thursday evening.
In response to a question about BBC Brexit bias, Mr Rees-Mogg said: “Dear old auntie. How many times have we heard on the BBC ‘in spite of Brexit?’
“In spite of Brexit a record three million jobs have been created since 2010, in spite of Brexit unemployment is at its lowest level since 1975, in spite of Brexit England defeated the West Indies at Lords.
“The Sun carried out a survey of the Andrew Marr Show. The Andrew Marr show has had 84 per cent of its people on being anti-Brexit, 129 interviewees against 33 in favour. The balance of the BBC has been against.”
The Conservative MP for Somerset called the Bank of England's Mark Carney one of the "enemies of Brexit" in a recent BBC interview.
Mr Rees-Mogg said he criticises the Bank of England for becoming too "politicised".