You're right.
I too get the feeling I've been 'had', but it 'aint from Brand 'because he has NO POWER!

Plonker.

......and why does 'Stuk', who appears to hate Brand, spend so much time researching the man who has NO POWER?

This thread is brilliant example of all that's wrong in OUR country today.
The focus is constantly about 'celebrity over substance'.
I don't agree with Brand all the time and equally cringe occasionally, but he tells it as it is and highlights many issues that rarely come to light in the mainstream media. Who cares if he doesn't have a solution, do the 'others'? Obviously not!
If the silly 'oldgit' above can't see it then what hope for the youngsters?

Another sad soul who spends more of his time reflecting on the 'apparent failings of a comedian' than he does about the MP's who directly affect peoples lives.
Why would anyone do that?

Another gift, along with many, that just keeps on giving.

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JimBob.
Why does Brand take up so much of your time? And you've still nothing to add on those that 'rule over us'?

Go figure.

Just watched QT. Tried hard to be objective.

I thought:

Russell Brand played the man not the ball in swiping at Nigel Farage. He didn't engage with the questions much and got found out by the bloke who asked him why he wouldn't stand for parliament (but given the state of the shouty idiots in the audience you have to wonder what sane person would want to listen to them moan at you for a living).

He made his populist lefty points well enough. They were simplistic but no more simplistic than any one else's except maybe the journalist.

He's actually gone (very slightly) up in my estimation. I think he does care and he does actually bother. If only the world were as simple as he'd like it to be but as it isn't it probably does need people like him.

I'd still vote for Nige over him any day though.

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

You've got to hand it to him. I mean, he's masterfully constructed this image of himself as a champion of the people. Whilst the majority of adults see him for what he is, he has a strong base of popularity among many naive, young people and he's exploiting it to great effect. Regardless of the whole 'Champagne Socialist' tag that's rightly been pinned onto him, he continues to build his profile through promoting some tenuous connection he has with the working man and disillusioned youth. Anyone watching QT last night can't have missed his syrupy use of the term 'mate', not to mention the clasping of hands together as if in prayer which surely communicates his sincerity.

He addresses ills in the Westminster establishment recklessly but sensationally (because that sells books), advises all young people to boycott elections (which would lead to minority parties he purports to detest gaining the ascendancy), then laments the lack of a clear choice between the parties (yet, in the next breath, he's slating the one party promoting an obvious deviation from the political norm in UKIP).

But his cleverness lies in his ability to critique the establishment and then, when picked up on his suggestions or challenged on matters of substance, he stands back and protests that he's 'not a politician'. Or at least I'd like to think he's clever, because the only other conclusion is that some people are incredibly thick.