[Oliver_W]

Political leaders should intervene to prevent their supporters abusing BBC journalists at public events, the new Chairman of the BBC has said.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC Political Editor, and other correspondents faced jeers from supporters of Jeremy Corbyn when they tried to ask questions at Labour campaign events attended by party activists.

Sir David Clementi said political leaders are guilty of allowing the abuse of BBC journalists, which has become commonplace on social media, to flourish “in plain sight”.

A BBC source said the trend for allowing activists to attend press events had contributed to an intimidatory atmosphere. The problem was not restricted to any one party.

Ms Kuenssberg was reportedly given a bodyguard during the general election following online threats from Corbyn supporters and some on the right.

Corbyn was accused of delaying before shushing supporters who jeered the BBC journalist at one campaign event.

[Chris Clark] finally admitted the rumours of his shocking and brutal break-up with Jesy Nelson were true this month.

And it looks as though TOWIE star Chris Clark is facing quite the backlash after he confirmed he dumped Little Mix star Jesy Nelson via text in the Spring.

After confirming his heartless approach to ending the short-lived relationship the 22-year-old has revealed he's been receiving death threats from the pop star' "brutal" fans.

"The level of abuse has been crazy," he explained, clearly not happy with the reaction people have had to his seemingly callous approach to splitting up with Jesy.

Jesy, who went public with her romance with Chris at the BRIT Awards, was on tour with the Little Mix ladies in America when they called it quits.

And it wasn't long before Chris had moved on with ex-girlfriend Amber, prompting some to speculate that he was just with Jesy for the publicity.

Needless to say, celebrities and politicians can't be held responsible for their fans' actions, and if a Momentum member killed Kuenssberg or a Little Mix fan killed Clark, there would be no blood on Corbyn's or Nelson's hands.

If public figures stepped in every time their fans got out of hand, they'd never stop talking, especially those with devoted fanbases. But when some of Corbyn's fans act like babies at press conferences, it gives others the ammo to say "his fans are just rude", and in the case of Clark, death threats are never acceptable.

Should public figures sometimes step in, and ask their fans to sort their behaviour out?

Spoiler:

I ask certain members not the turn this into a Corbyn bashing thread, it's not the place, and the article points out the right was guilty of bad behaviour too, so it's not one sided

[Kizzy]

Those two examples are poles apart, in all seriousness death threats are very serious but a portion of the electorate objecting to the line of questioning from a reporter who has already been found to be biased in her questioning is not for me comparable.

That said there has been instances where Corbyn has asked the audience not to jeer questions, however I don't feel they have a duty to get involved in the cases of dangerous troll comments but leave those to the police.

[jaxie]

I think a responsible person would try to reign them in whatever the circumstances rather than being indirectly associated with poor public behaviour.

[Jamie89]

They shouldn't have to but they should do it anyway just because it's the decent thing to do.

[DemolitionRed]

The rowdy revelers often do more harm than good but if we are going to spank them, lets start at the top in the House of Commons!