[Closed] Russle brand 'the trews'?

There are so many things wrong here.

"but I searched for 'russle brand' and nothing came up!?"

I'd be willing to say this was a troll if I'd not seen the OPs posts before

I can't abide the monotonous , I use big words me so I must be funny, prat!

The last word on the revolutionary, spiritual, lothario simpleton, as with a lot of subjects, must surely go to Noel Gallagher:

[i]“Well, I love Russell but he don't half talk out of his arse sometimes,”

“I was out with him the other night and he says it with a straight face. 'There is going to be a revolution.' And I'm like, '****ing hell, mate, give us a shout when you're going down The Mall with your pitchforks and that, I'll come and serenade you with my loot before we eat the Queen."

“He says, 'Come on mate, back us' and I'm like, 'If you make me the Duke Of Manchester then I'm in'.”[/i]

😀

infinitesimal insidious idiotic Idiosyncratic incoherent idiomatic idiocy innit.

The couple I have seen were ok but any left winger on here could have made the point just as well and less loquaciously and vaingloriously.

gaaaawd, I Love this place 😆
back to spelling class for me innit.

and check some of my comments on other threads because No one spells my name right!!! I feel at home. 😆

My view on Brand is that he's probably going to do more harm than good.

Harm? by having an opinion? how so.

Pointing out that our political system is populated by self-serving tossers isn't groundbreaking stuff, is it?

Obviously he thinks it is. Maybe its because he's so completely self-absorbed, not to mention rich, and lives in LA, and goes everywhere in a chafeaur driven limo, that he's only just noticed the somewhat knackered political system. Hey.... thats sobriety for you, Russ.

His suggestion as the answer to this problem - don't vote - suggests he may want to analyse the way democracy functions a bit more closely before offering further [url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/uk-thanks-russell-brand-2014052786930 ]'solutions'[/url]

In short... he's an idiot!

Will this thread turn out the same as [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/this-brand-parklife-thing ]this one[/url]?

cheers for that DezB, I had missed that thread 😉

infinitesimal insidious idiotic Idiosyncratic incoherent idiomatic idiocy innit.

Parklife!

Harm? by having an opinion? how so.

By being a dick

As many are keen to point out. That's the harm, the point he's trying to make is coming second place to his personality.

Which to be fair, is probably first place for him too.

[i]cheers for that DezB, I had missed that thread[/i]

No problem. All I remember from that thread was something about colostomy bags.

piemonster - Member

Harm? by having an opinion? how so.

By being a dick
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loads of them about tho Eh pal 😆

Parklife!

Which to be fair, is probably first place for him too.

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Parklife!

[b][i]Oi[/i]![/b]

i like him 😀

never 'eard of 'im

Obviously if you are a journalist and you ask Mr Brand about his big expensive London property that's off message - so you get called names by the saviour of the people

[url= http://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2014/dec/02/russell-brand-journalist-london-home-snide-video ]Linky[/url]

Cool, I like him even more after that, nice one 8)

I think he's great. Yes he does waffle on and uses words that are annoying, but the message he's trying to get across is a good one.

Me too. I used to dislike him, now I don't mind him. If he gets people thinking about stuff other than white cars, granite worktops and shopping on credit, how's that A Bad Thing?

Me too. I used to dislike him, now I don't mind him. If he gets people thinking about stuff other than white cars, granite worktops and shopping on credit, how's that A Bad Thing?

This is STW, home of the espresso maker, german estate car and carbon MTB. Not really the target audience 😆

Let me get this right.... a rich man who rents an expensive London property turns out to protest about landlords turfing people out of social housing so they can charge expensive rents to rich people?

Hmmmmmmmm....

[quote="kudos100"]This is STW, home of the espresso maker, german estate car and carbon MTB. Not really the target audience 😆

That's a good point well made 😀

That's a good point well made

"Russell brand is a ****er/full of himself/a hypocrite. Now back to more important matters, XTR or XX1 for my new bike?" 😆

Let me get this right.... a rich man who rents an expensive London property turns out to protest about landlords turfing people out of social housing so they can charge expensive rents to rich people?

So a rich person cannot take this sort of action, or have an opinion on it, or even want to change it? If he was poor he would be ignored, but because he has wealth, he is somehow not allowed to pass comment on these sort of things, only poets and billy bragg types can do that I suppose.

Actually, you have fallen into the classic trap those who do not want to talk about inequality use...attack the man, to steer away from the message.

Let me get this right.... a rich man who rents an expensive London property turns out to protest about landlords turfing people out of social housing so they can charge expensive rents to rich people?

Hmmmmmmmm....

Oh eff off you berk!! What an idiotic comment.. that's tory lapdog thinking

So we're now not allowed to get involved in pointing out social injustice or campaigning for change unless we live in a cardboard box and dress in sack cloth and ashes..!!?

Actually, you have fallen into the classic trap those who do not want to talk about inequality use...attack the man, to steer away from the message.

absolutely spot on..

Do I need to be homeless to point out the injustice in homlessness?

Ooh, wonder if there'll be any good deal on granite worktops after crimbo

I used to enjoy his craic on MTV Dance, years ago, before he was sacked for wearing the Bin Laden fancy dress outfit.

He used to find people in clubs who were clearly out of it and ask them tricky questions with often hilarious results.

Not a BB fan either but he was great on Big Brother's Big Mouth. Regardez...

binners - Member

Let me get this right.... a rich man who rents an expensive London property turns out to protest about landlords turfing people out of social housing so they can charge expensive rents to rich people?

Yes. Why not? It'd be personal hypocrisy if he was a landlord, but we all have to live in the world we have now. Thing about Brand is, he doesn't generally claim to have the solution, he says- here's an obviously wrong thing, which you might not know about, let's talk about it. Not "I have all the answers to everything".

That's pretty refreshing tbh- a lot of the time, someone will correctly identify an obviously wrong thing, then declare some equally wrong fix, and people end up ignoring the whole thing. Nothing wrong with saying "Look here's a problem, let's figure out a solution" or even "Clever people- you figure out a solution", you don't have to have all the answers before you can tell something's wrong.

But it does make for a convenient distraction from the actual point.

Nice to see him being awarded for his work http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11269276/Russell-Brand-wins-award-for-gobbledygook.html

Yes I saw that, it made me smile this morning !

Russel Brand is perfectly entitled to speak out on whatever issues he wants. However, a bit like a Labour politician is entitled to send his kids to private school but if you do so then it is right that you are challenged. Brand failed totally to met the journalists challenge.

The property concerned has been owned by a charity for 80 years, its historically been managed as a low rent property but now the charity has sold the property to the highest bidder thus gaining the most the charity. It has always been a private property. If the local authority (or Mr Brand) wanted to buy it they could have done and kept the rents as they where. I happen to live opposite a housing trust, build by donation nearly a 100 years ago. That lease is now expiring and the property will be redeveloped I imagine for the private sector. The provision of social housing is the responsibility of the government and local authorities, not the private sector.

jambalaya - Member

However, a bit like a Labour politician is entitled to send his kids to private school but if you do so then it is right that you are challenged

Exact same thing tbh- you can speak out against a thing you disagree with while still existing within today's world. So frinstance, if a politician said "You shouldn't send your kids to private school" but did themselves, that's wrong. But if they say "Private schools shouldn't be better than state schools, that's a thing we should fix"- it's not relevant whether or not their kids go to private schools today, sending their kids to a state school won't change a thing

If Russell Brand moves into one of these people's houses, that's news. Otherwise it's deflection and whataboutery.

My problem with this particular case is that Brand holds an inherently contradictory position. It reminds me of the phrase 'you are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic. And when this uncomfortable fact is pointed out to him, he has a hissy fit.

Do you know anything about this specific case? The Guardian have been covering it in detail for a few months now, since it all began. Like the fact that the initial purchaser involved was [url= http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/10/millionaire-tory-mp-tenants-estate-flats-richard-benyon ]Tory MP Richard Benson[/url]

If Brand is going to draw attention to the fact that the party in power, in their private dealings, are profiting from turfing key workers out of their homes, to cash in on their 'investments', while publicly preaching the opposite, then fine. Good luck to him. If he is engaging with the issue properly, and proposing doing something about the ludicrous mess our housing market presently is (homes as investments, or cash machines, rather than actual homes), or suggesting other people do then great.

But he's not, is he? He's just getting shouty on telly (again), and then disappearing straight off (picked up in his chauffeur driven Merc? First class flight back to LA) to plug his latest book or film.

Mind you. Its probably just as well he's not offering more advice (lets for the moment forget the book he's plugging - Russell tells you how to change the world. From the comfort of his LA home - with the proceeds from his latest book). When his advice amounts to 'democracy is crap - lets all not vote!

Brilliant. Well done. You're a *ing genius!

Revolutionary, my arse!! Its just bloody self promotion FFS! All part of his ongoing messiah complex

He's just another *ing Bono. Sanctimoniously, and hypocritically lecturing other people from his ivory tower. And giving hope to the desperate and gullible. When in reality he'll have forgotten about them by next week, and moved on to whatever target ends up in the sights with his next scattergun, nonsensical onslaught

😯 Binners .... I cannot Believe you compared him to Bonio!!!! ... No one is or Ever will be THAT BAD, Lol

binners - Member

If Brand is going to draw attention to the fact that the party in power, in their private dealings, are profiting from turfing key workers out of their homes, to cash in on their 'investments', while publicly preaching the opposite, then fine. Good luck to him. If he is engaging with the issue properly, and proposing doing something about the ludicrous mess our housing market presently is (homes as investments, or cash machines, rather than actual homes), or suggesting other people do then great.

But he's not, is he?

Guess what- he just did 😆 You'd not have made this post without his contribution would you?

So a man that has a job and a house (rented in the case of the London property he lives in) can't have an opinion on poor people being turfed out of their homes at the whims of private property speculators and use his substantial public profile to rally for their cause? Whether you like Mr Brand or not that's not particularly hypocritical. Even if there's an element of self-promotion that doesn't negate the help for the New Era resident's cause.

I cannot Believe you compared him to Bonio!!!! ... No one is or Ever will be THAT BAD

Give him a few years. He's just getting warmed up. I'm just waiting for the inevitable tax dodging (tax efficiency?) scam to break, just to complete the picture

Guess what- he just did. You'd not have made this post without his contribution would you?

If you look at the link I posted, I'd read about this a while back. I was aware of it before Russ popped up (interrupting his latest book tour) to kindly inform me what I would be thinking about this week 🙄

I recon if he was dodging any type of Tax the powers that be would have hauled is disruptive ass over the coals by now, Also, im prepared to flip and hate his guts if he gets too close to the bonio type pal, im a Fickle fella me binners 😉 ha ha ha ha