FORMER Linden City, Wellington, footballer Steve German was kicked out of the Question Time audience on television last week for being disruptive.

Mr German, 56, who now lives in Taunton, was asked to leave the audience after continuously heckling guests on the programme chaired by David Dimbleby.

The veteran journalist and broadcaster finally had enough of Mr German when he shouted out that Prime Minister Theresa May was a ‘zombie prime minister’.

“I think you ought to leave, you know,” said Mr Dimbleby, 78. Mr German, who once played football for the Sunday team managed by the WWN’s Barry Knott, appeared to clap his hands at the request before standing up and leaving. The audience applauded his exit.

Earlier in the programme Mr German had shouted: “Jeremy Corbyn has proven that anti-austerity policies are popular. The Tories and the Blairites lost that election.”

Mr German then went on to heckle David Lidington, the new Justice Secretary, as he attempted to reply to him.

Mr Dimbleby told Mr German: “I know you have your views. You’re one person in an audience of 150. I don’t want you taking over the programme. He’s speaking [Mr Lidington] – let him speak.”

It is thought to be only the second time in the programme’s 38-year history an audience member has been asked to leave.

Mr German, who has been described in the national media as a left-wing activist, stood in the

2015 General Election in the Taunton Deane Constituency as a Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate. He polled just 118 votes.

Last year he had a conviction of causing criminal damage quashed by a judge.

Taunton Magistrates’ Court found him guilty in February 2016 of damaging the paintwork of a BMW car during a road rage incident. He was left being ordered to pay £970 in fines, compensation and costs.

But Judge James Patrick, sitting at Taunton Crown Court, overturned the original sentence.

He accepted, having watched CCTV recordings of an incident in March 2015, that Mr German’s accuser, Paul Lanning, had braked sharply and encroached onto a pedestrian crossing.