Hallelujah!! I'm in total agreement with TSO>
Yes Russell Brand is a vile individual.

Russell Brand speaks the truth
Nigel Farage tells lies

Hth.

I couldn't understand it, either. It was badly worded. No point in being insulting.

The Special One coming on here and quoting  Russell Brand.

Why doesn't that surprise me?

Here is the direct link ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b055kqhw/this-world-quelle-catastrophe-france-with-robert-peston

Well worth watching if you missed it!

That's just what I was gonna say...I think.

Russell Brand a latter day Gary Glitter.

It is reassuring when you see a great campaigning newspaper like the Sun, renowned for its fights against privilege and poverty, pointing out yet another injustice or example of wrongdoing on the part of Britain’s elite….

As intros go, that doesn’t even begin to match the contorted, dishonest rhetoric booming from this week’s Sun headlines, excoriating comedian and activist, Russell Brand for the temerity of supporting the residents of the New Era estate in their protest against its sale to US private equity firm, Westbrook Partners, and their demands for affordable housing. Again, the paper has shown itself in its usual, unpleasant colours, and demonstrated, yet again, the contempt with which it treats its readers.

Russell Brand is not everyone’s cup of tea but few could disagree that this is ludicrous. Brand has been accused of hypocrisy because firstly, he lives in an expensive flat and secondly, his landlord may engage in forms of tax avoidance.

The Sun is not the first to have suggested that there is something problematic about a campaign for affordable housing being supported by a millionaire who, in his own words, can ‘blessedly’ afford his rent. Channel 4’s Paraic O’Brien, also chose to focus on this rather than the campaign, a tack Brand, rightly, described as ‘snide.’

These arguments assume that any individual like Brand should be barred from showing solidarity with those less well off unless they choose, in Franciscan fashion, to dispense with all trapping of wealth and take a vow of poverty. One could, I suppose, be uncharitable and impugn the motives of well-paid tabloid editors and broadcast journalists in advocating such stances but why lower oneself?

We know Brand is a successful, wealthy individual. How has he done it? Well, not tapping phones or spinning lies about Liverpool supporters, rather by writing books, telling jokes and being a performer. Does the fact that he is popular or has made money from being an entertainer disqualify him from expressing egalitarian sentiments, holding radical opinions or showing solidarity with those less lucky than himself? I don’t see why.

Brand is known to contribute his time and money to campaigns, although he chooses not to shout about the latter. He does stress the importance he places in paying the proper rate of tax. It’s quite clear that the activists in these campaigns welcome his support.

The Sun’s claims regarding his landlord’s tax affairs are both bizarre and dishonest. Why should Brand know anything of his landlord’s tax affairs and what relevance would it have anyway? Is he supposed to do an audit before renting a property? It’s not his tax affairs that are under question here, rather someone to whom he pays rent. Great logic there.

The only self-serving, chiselling hypocrites who have cause for shame here are those responsible for commissioning and writing the article at the Sun. The real scandal is not the behaviour of Brand but that we lack a press that is prepared to campaign as forcefully for affordable housing and the conditions of working people. The solution to that lies in regulation to prevent media concentration and to ensure genuine plurality of provision. Then we might have some alternative to the cynical and manipulative coverage and editorialising shown by so much of our current mainstream media.

Will Wallace and Gromit do the deal with Wendolene AND Preston?

Russell is a rich, white man who clearly hates blacks.

Oh I see, you attack the one who points out the racist while defending the rich white racist.
You must be thrilled with Brand's hatred of women, which he freely admits to.

It's in the general direction of your nose.

Russell Brand is the last guy you'd want promoting anything.
Full of his own importance and struggles to express himself when out of his comfort zone.

I think a lot of people are simply overawed by Brand's personality without the slightest inclination of what he would do to change things for the better.

He speaks gobbledegook so that he can't be nailed down on specific details.
The one thing that is clear from his ranting is that he is against the capitalist system we have in place.

The very system that is funding the generous welfare state that this country enjoys.
He seeks to destroy the goose that lays the golden egg.

I hope farage land comes soon before we are overwhelmed with sh!t,sharia,fgm,and the rest of the cultural enhancements nobody voted for.