Excruciatingly, before today’s Q&A, Ed Miliband was forced to plead with his audience:

“I want you, ladies and gentlemen, to be very nice to the media. Sometimes they ask some not very nice questions but we have to be absolutely nice to them.”

How did that go?

Audience very, very hostile. Now shouting "what a silly question" at @SophyRidgeSky

— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) February 12, 2015

https://twitter.com/elashton/status/565853790990237696

labour activists not helping themselves by jeering legitimate questions this time by my colleague @SophyRidgeSky …

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) February 12, 2015

Concerned us poor hacks might not make it back to Westminster, angry shouty audience members are in back row blocking the door!

— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) February 12, 2015

Not even his activists are listening to him…