Russell Brand as future Mayor of London Noooooooooooo !

I think that he has shot himself in the foot with his book and exposed himself as an idiot! ( not to mention hypocrite etc) The young are not silly- they can be trusted to see through things and form opinions.

Thanks for the link to Nick Cohen's article Bags.

Love this comment from Boccebelle (RB denounced Richard Dawkins as ' a menopausal proponent of atheistic tyranny'):

" 'Menopausal' is an insult now? Because women over fifty don't have enough shit to deal with, now a normal, healthy biological thing is going to be used as a put-down? Am I supposed to be ashamed of my age? Well, guess what? I'm not. Go, fuck yourself Brand, you pathetic little twerp."


This article argues that it's time for Russell Brand's ideas to be subjected to proper scrutiny by the media, instead of the easy ride he's had so far.

I find it's possible to substitute the name Farage for Brand in just about every place in that article, Janea.

Agree with you Jen.

Wow! what has Russell Brand done to get such a reaction? He's written a book. Crikey anyone would think he'd killed somebody.

In a nation where 50 Shades of Grey flew off the shelves and diet books, cookery books and autobiographies of "celebrities" sell particularly well, especially at Christmas, I'm not quite sure why people are so appalled at the lack of intellectual rigour in RB's book.

Well, Eloethan, no one claimed that 50 Shades of Grey was a work of literature, did they.
And celebrity chefs aren't advocating revolution.
Perhaps that's the difference.

Yes, janea, exactly.

RB is a poser is why, eloethan. Even so, I think your remark is a little OTT. No-one has accused him of a serious crime (or any crime), only of self-obsessed stupidity (in spite of supposedly being a clever dude), which only deserves (and gets) ridicule.

Eloethan I do agree with you.

RB may be objectionable in a number of ways but he is definitely intelligent.

It would be interesting if someone would read an article of his and then point out where it is stupid and deserving of ridicule.

Not, of course, counting objection to his political ideology which is definitely too extreme for some people.

It's his political ideology that I object to. I'd object to it if I thought him unintelligent as well. Somehow it seems worse in an intelligent person, as if some key reasoning power got missed out of his intelligence.

Perhaps people are confused by my suggesting that intelligent people like him can (and often do) say and do stupid things.

Russell Brand drives around London and LA in a huge black range rover and flies via private jet. He is a self declared environmental campaigner and he is a hypocritical joke.

That is enough for me to rule him out as having any credibility.

Sunseeker I agree -

That interview with him in (yet again) The Guardian books this weekend where he made irritatingly stupid jokes about his latest venture into kids books and was irreverent about the paedophilic subtext of the subject (Pied Piper of Hamelin) was vile.

I understand that he gained his notoriety through being a notable comedian. Perhaps he should have stayed with that.

I think most 'celebrity' environmental campaigners are hypocrites as they all have lots of houses and use private jets [Bono and Sting spring to mind].

Yes Emma Thompson and her buying up of land around Heathrow to stop expansion then endlessly bangs on about the environment and plane travel whilst telling us about the weddings in Mozambique she flies to and the round the world trips she wants to take her daughter on .

Clearly she has a special plane that runs on unicorns breath or is it that us plebs should stop using air travel so the famous can continue to do so without guilt or responsibility?

Same with Vivienne Westwood who went on to Breakfast BBC to talk about environmentalism then in the next breath told us she was only there because the airline cancelled her flight to Austria where she was due to attend a one day retreat- clearly an unavoidably valuable journey?)

Not to mention a few inconvenient truths about Al Gore, eh millers?

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Most definitely. It is difficult isn't it because the message is a valuable one but it ends up being lost when rich famous powerful folk effectively are saying 'do what we say, not what we do'. Feels like we are doing the work for them- the boring bit of the work, that is.

All I can say is that he makes me cringe.

Haha! This is hilarious.

I couldn't really be bothered with Russell Brand and his one and only pair of scuffed cowboy boots (can't help but notice he seems to permanently be wearing them) one way or another because he is so ubiquitous and he doesn't seem to know what his message is, jumps all over the place. But I came across this article and read it thought it was good:

theconversation.com/if-russell-brand-has-a-thesis-its-time-for-his-viva-33607

It might be a good lesson if he was elected to mayor on the strength of his celebrity status, and alleged intelligence. Then it would be make or break - I would guess break.
He's so pumped up with his own importance, can't stand him, just want to prick his bubble.

I cannot forgive Russell Brand for that disgraceful phone call to Andrew Sachs about his grand daughter a few years ago.
He got off lightly with that but he is self obsessed swaggering dreadful man. Nobody over 25 would vote for him. He gives me the creeps.

Has anyone read his book?
My Booky Wook?
Good grief.

He is also a druggie isn't he?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2823470/Russell-Brand-hobnobs-celebrities-freebie-theatre-joining-protestors.html

He was a busy bee last night.

Parklife!

A 'druggie', mrsmopp? I hold no brief for Russell Brand, but he says he has not taken drugs for over 12 years and I have no reason to disbelieve him.