russell brand - C or D?

Two great minds meet, I can hardly wait. One good thing is that after appearing on Newsnight, Nick Griffin's popularity/ career/ life rapidly went down the toilet, one can only hope a similar fate awaits these two bawbags.

[So Russell Brand's going on Question Time next week, alongside Farage. Should be worth a giggle.

― everything,

Not sure what to make of him right now, or doing things like this. It seems like he's realizing certain things about the way things are, but doesnt yet have the ability to articulate it, especially quickly under fire, so i sort of think fair play to him putting himself in firing line before he's really ready, against people who are practiced at this shit

anyway, ive no idea if his popularity will go down after this....Joey Barton's didnt, and in some ways they're sort of similar (though obv very different also)

RB can only win a shitload more people over IMO; those who may never have seen the Trews, his comedy, heard him on the radio, read his stuff in the Graun etc. whereas Faragae is pretty much on home turf and he'll be reiterating all his usual stuff for all the nodding dogs. NF has been on about 17, 18 times so far already. RB has been on once.

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people dont' realise, non of it matters, brits are conservative, especially old brits, doesn't matter how much attention Brand gets. It won't change votes of majority of country. Rememmber Clegg? All that huge swell of support, huge popularity, as ridiculous as it sounds now. Lib Dems ended up getting less votes than their previous election.

They got more votes and a higher proportion of the vote than 2005 but fewer seats.

Right, the only option we have is Milliband. Which is like an infinite amount better than the evil Cameron. People may like mock Miliband but he's not a nasty piece of shit like Cameron and his cronies so I don't get the debate here. No one is going to vote for Green Party.

Unless you actually want to tear up everything and start again, which as I said won't happen b/c brits are conservative in nature and has a long corporate and business first history which isn't changing, only becoming stronger. Most the country still enjoyes the presense of a fucking Royal Family for gods sake. All this political debate is a nonsense. Small fry. Trivial issues are encouaged with fervour, Bigger issues ignored. At least Brand looks at the bigger issues.

if 'brits are conservative' why haven't they won a majority since the year i turned 18 then? i'll be 41 at the next election.

pretty sure conservatives have swept the board in all those elections

Are you sure you're not 36 next year?

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Obv noodles' point also stands

?? They last won a majority in 1992, which will be 23 years ago come the next election.

i guess i went by them having the majority until losing it in 1997

this is way more interesting than anything to do with russell brand imo

John Major lost his majority in 1996.

^ possibly an unfruitful tangent but that's correct iirc, Major chose to temporarily fuck up Northern Ireland peace process in order to get ulster unionist votes to keep his obviously doomed government in power for another year.

Hmmm he just tweeted a Daily Mail senior reporter's business card (implication is that the mobile number on it is a personal one but idk)).

You can only win a majority at an election. You don't keep winning it every day until the next one.

No, but you *have* a majority until you don't got one. Useful for voting in changes you like and *they* don't.

in that sense if you already had a majority coming into an election, kept power, but lost some of the majority, have you still "won" the majority? I'd say no and Tory hasn't "won" any majority since 83 and piscesx is 49

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i don't see how farage vs brand can ever live up to this.

*head explodes*

er anyway a lotta folk say RB's not well researched enough and suchlike and that's true often but he's getting better. this is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmSAvSfuiig

Imagine how stupid The Sun has to be to take this on like this. They're so easy to just rip apart like this. They must be petrified by him.

That was too many like this, sorry for making you read that like this

Oh yeah, terrified. What planet are you from?

I am starting think Russell Brand is like the UK equivalent of Bill Maher - or at least, he seems to occupy a similar space on the socio-political spectrum

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c+p from The Sun website (not)

Turns out that over long, annoyingly written, confused, and whiny open letter from an RBS employee was written by an ex uni pal I defriended on Facebook ages ago for posting annoying and confused political screeds.

ah so he wasn't just an RBS sock then?

No just some self confessed right winger with opinions 4 u.

Ohhh shit, him!

I should probably stop reading his blog now.

Turns out that over long, annoyingly written, confused, and whiny open letter from an RBS employee was written by an ex uni pal

What over long, annoyingly written, confused, and whiny open letter from an RBS employee?

... OK found it but can't be arsed reading it at the moment.

it's waaaay too long and whiny for anyone to read.

http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/russell-brand-jo-rbs-open-letter.html

English speaking people: want to know what's even worse than having an audible, somewhat understandable Russell Brand in your country? Having Russell Brand as a guest in a non-English speaking country. Apparently this twat has a book out and is doing some sort of EU book tour. First stop: the most watched Dutch late night show. With Russell looking half dead and high on skelp cracking jokes about whatever issue he doesn't know a thing about. Being welcomed as some sort of an hero, solely because said late night show landed a guest that isn't Dutch. So proud, so glad. So fucked.

Good luck w/ "funnily" sticking up for the Dutch alt-right figurehead because you think he looks like you, you absolute twat. The violent communist revolution can't come soon enough. Off to the gulag with this fuck.

Be careful now, you can't be slagging off celebz on ILX, some people get upset :p

Lol @ calzino trying to joke about other posters being predictable

All in fun it’s the internet. also sorry LBI - why were you watching that anyway?

yawn btw, el tom.

I was trapped in the belly of the capitalist death machine we live in, Tombot; ie I was watching the tube. Should've known better, yes. But it was thrown in my face. Bloody Nora. Russell needs to be shot. We all deserve to be shot tbh. Russell first tho.

he's good TV in America but only because our talking heads are so across-the-board pathetic

(and he's good at exposing and exploiting that, I mean)

Well, yeah. America kind of deserves a botched tool like Brand to be a spectacle or "good tv" on telly. "Good tv" isn't as good as it used to be.

(gotcha rip)

It's just this whole self-fabricated cult around him, and that people fall for it, that annoys me. We all know he's in it for the money/ego/money/money. And yet "we" choose to play along and welcome him into our homes as some sort of savior or "fresh" voice. Knowing the cynical machinery of television reality only makes it worse. Nothing means anything any more. It's about grades, numbers, money, ego oh and money. Perfect fit, really. I'm so tired of that shit.

If the Brands of the world are the "intersting guests" on telly nowadays, that's a sad state of affairs. #societyisinthegutteretc

I mean don't get me wrong I've hated this yutz ever since he came on my screen years ago, I think for some crap NBC fill-in around the London Olympics, and he was explaining the Union Jack and talked shit about the blue part because it was the Scottish bit, ha ha, yuck, Scotland. Nobody is going to miss this idiot when he disappears at sea.

Actually I guess his "mum" will since she cried when Graham Norton asked him a question on "good tv" that one time six years ago

thanks your *unpredictability* there, it was genuinely heartening + angry agitprop!*

*if you were a martian!