Russell Brand as future Mayor of London Noooooooooooo !

This article www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/stuff-your-revolution-if-it-doesn-t-include-treating-women-people raises a good point. As a woman I'm not too interested in his idea of a revolution if the end-game features exploitation of women as a highlight.

Thanks for that info, gknot. Good for him and I too think he should stick with stuff like that instead of trying to be such a Cockney smartarse. Perhaps he's addicted to the attention it gets him though.

When it comes to stop taking drugs- kids are much more likely to listen to someone like him- because a/ he's been there and knows what it is like and b/ because of his looks, personality, manner, etc- and for that I am very grateful.

When we used to do drugs education at school- and teachers would stand at the fron saying things like 'if you take an e you will die' - many kids would snigger at the back, knowing full well from experience it was NOT the case- teachers would only preach to those who had no experience of drugs- and it was all totally pointless.

Well there are many sleek politicians out there with just words- meaningless words. As much as RB's manner irrirtates- if I look beyond his mannerisms, he so often does talk a lot of sense- and I'd rather have that. Glad we agree eloethan.

Once again, it's amazing the amount of angry indignation this chap generates for just putting forward an opinion.

Of course, we all know that "money talks" but I for one didn't know that in the US it is always the party that spends the most on its election campaign that wins. I don't quite understand how that can be described as a "democratic" process, particularly when, as RB says, those that donate the money do so in order to push their own agendas.

Sorry I should have added, it includes scenes of injecting drug use (the film).

For the record, he is an active campaigner too for recovery from drugs and alcohol, and for maintaining abstinence from drugs. This is a film where he talks about that, it's rather long but in the first few minutes his mum comes on. Now in this film there's no exaggerated Cockney-speak, he comes across as quite ordinary. So perhaps he should stick to that. He hasn't seemed to have quite worked out what he wants to be when he grows up.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9tyaJv01io

It'd still be irritating if he were only fourteen. I've heard fourteen year olds debate in a more "amusing and accessible" way than that.

Which is not to say I'd shut him up. Free speech and freely with democracy in all its shades is what I believe in so he's welcome to carry on with his layers for whomsoever likes it.

Amusing and accessible to whom? Not me. I find his manner, sorry, his "layers", extremely tiresome.

It's the "layers" that are so irritating!

Besides, don't we know all that about money spent on elections already? And does the fact that money could be better spent (it always can! even money you spend could be better spent most of the time; hardly profound) mean that the democratic process isn't working? No, it doesn't. It matters politically who has control of Congress in the US. Why else would so much money be spent to win votes? And the political 'colour' of Congress affects what can be done in the US and what can't. And that often affects other parts of the world and attitudes in other parts of the world, including the UK.

In short, democracy, however badly done, is still democracy and it's still the best form of government human beings have discovered. RB, even under all his bloody irritating "layers", just doesn't get this. Why? I suppose because he is politically immature, as has already been mentioned.

granjura Thanks for that. If anybody else bothers to watch it, they'll see that RB makes a lot of sense and communicates his ideas in an amusing and accessible way.

Well ... very often, despite his manic ways- if you peel the layers you then realise he does talk a lot of sense :

youtu.be/UwqwWg32TJU

@feetlebaum - On the Blur album, actor Phil Daniels delivered a few rants which were punctuated by the 'Parklife' word. Brand seems to rant in a similar fashion to Phil Daniels so his detractors shout 'Parklife' every now and then to brighten up the delivery, much to Brand's annoyance. I am not a fan of Brand, so I added my own 'Parklife' to this debate.

Just asking, Ana, didn't know he was reformed...

www.independent.co.uk/news/people/the-inevitable-russell-brand-parklife-full-video-is-here-9841699.html#

Do you know the Blur song "Parklife" feetlebaum?

It is a reference to the way Russell Brand rambles on in that same Cockney style.

"Parklife" indeed Knowsley

@Knowsley =- What DOES that mean? I keep seeing reference to it when Brand is under discussion...

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.

Parklife!

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

He was a busy bee last night.

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

He is also a druggie isn't he?

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.

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.