Cameron heckled during TV debate

An audience member was ejected from a televised leaders' debate in the UK yesterday after she heckled Prime Minister David Cameron over the government's treatment of veterans.

The woman, named as Victoria Prosser, 33, said she was asked to leave after making her intervention during the ITV debate in Salford.

"David Cameron mentioned giving a fair deal to everybody in this country, including people such as our fine military service people," she said. "Yes, they are fine. But they are not treated fine after they have left the Army, when they are in poverty and destitution, homeless on the streets and no hope of getting housed.

She identified herself to reporters as a therapist for alcoholics and a graduate of Salford University where she had studied psychology.

"He is using their name just to garner votes, because it might be a vote winner." Some audience members applauded her after she had finished talking.

“All I want everyone to do is to start looking at the facts behind things and start realising that there are so many more of us than there is of them, that we can do a better job if we just start getting,” said Prosser.

"There's homeless people on the streets who've been in the services," she shouted. "I have to speak out because I'm worried that there's more of us than there are of them and they're not listening to our concerns." She added that she had voted for the Green pary in the last election.

Cameron attempted to engage with her point about veterans living conditions, saying: "It is an important point which is there are people coming out of our armed services who do have difficulties. We should be putting money into the armed services charities," but during his response, she could be heard shouting: "It's not the truth."

She was then forcibly removed from the audience by security staff. 

Speaking to press reporters outside the venue, she said "I see them (troops) on the streets every day. How dare he put them forward when they are suffering on the streets every day. He is using their name just to garner votes."

She apologised if she had spoilt the programme for viewers.