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Milibrand will be released today! Sensation of the campaign!

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claig · 29/04/2015 06:42

Russell Brand will release the full video of Milibrand today. Fantastic stuff.

Forget Dimbleby, forget Evan Davis and even forget Kay Burley, Russell Brand is the real deal. He is the one we want to watch (apart from Farage).

The trailer shows what we are likely to get - more mockney than in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels of Monkeys. Miliband looks like he no longer gives a monkeys, he's going flat out for it. His Oxbridge teenage advisers must have told him to watch the "characters" in Albert Square and make sure he drops as many aitches as he can, the public's "gotta" be done up like a kipper. There are more hand movements and "hell yeah" grimaces than Joe Pesci on steroids in Goodfellas, but these fellas ain't good, they're "bloody lively".

Ed is about to explain it to Russell and fortunately Russell stops him short and says let me say it in my own words, that'll be better. Better than predistribution, than predatry capitalism, than endogeneous growth theory? It doesn't get much better than that.

Can't wait for the full 20 minute video to be released. Forget the Labour Party political broadcasts with the usual list of luvvies, this is Russell Brand - a luvvie who still has some street cred - and the Oxford PPE egghead known as Red Ed. Will this finally put the election to bed?

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claig · 01/05/2015 10:13

Yes, watched the video of his interview with Natalie Bennett and Caroline Lucas.

Good to see that Brand is very keen on electoral reform and PR voting. That is the only way we will get any real change.

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 01/05/2015 08:59

Brand has now endorsed voting. - for greens.

tellmemore1982 · 30/04/2015 15:10

It will be interesting to see if the polls have shifted at all following the interview. I doubt it personally as many of them you have to sign up to to be counted and if people don't vote, they'll hardly be signing up to participate in opinion polls.

BreakWindandFire · 30/04/2015 15:04

I don't think it's going to Ed any harm. For Cameron to say it's a 'joke' the same week he was interviewed by Lorraine Kelly, and would rather speak to Heat magazine that have a TV debate with other party leaders is the height of hypocrisy.

Social media is playing a part in this election the way it hasn't in the past.

At the moment the Tories won't debate on TV, the really big selling newspapers - the Mail, Sun and Telegraph are running a front page each day which is little short of "ED MILIBAND STRANGLES KITTENS'. Brand offers access to a audience predominantly in the 18-30 age group, who are the least likely to be following the election.

I'd be quite happy for Brand to interview the other leaders as well

fortyfide · 30/04/2015 12:51

Russell Brand is a brainy stand up. On being asked to stand for parliament. He said "I might get like the MPs if I did." That is a danger.

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claig · 30/04/2015 10:41

'I'd rather have luvvies in power than loathies any day.'

The choice is not between luvvies and loathies, it is between luvvies and the people. That's what I think Russell Brand is in favour of and so are the People's Army.

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Anniegetyourgun · 30/04/2015 10:04

I'd rather have luvvies in power than loathies any day.

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claig · 30/04/2015 09:26

"You gotat do it"

"But how?" says Brand.

Well, it's gotta be "international"

"Yeeeaah" says Brand almost yawning as he desperately reaches for the bottle.

He knows nothing will change and so do we.

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claig · 30/04/2015 09:23

Farage laughs at them and that is why the People's Army back him and laugh with him.

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claig · 30/04/2015 09:22

'in an attempt to discredit a politician'

Which politician? Miliband? I was joking that his glib answers meant that Brand had to take to the bottle.
Are we no longer allowed to laugh at our privileged political class?

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claig · 30/04/2015 09:20

'Hence your statement that bland was so bored with Miliband he was taking to drink, when in fact he's tee-total.'

But I didn't know he was tee-total and my comment on the bottle "that looked like high proof alcohol to keep his spirits up" was a joke, just like Brand makes jokes, but his are better.

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wigglylines · 30/04/2015 09:17

You may not consciously be lying, I expect many of the politicians spinning things don't think they're lying either.

What you are doing is presenting a narrative with a heavy bias towards UKIP with scant regard for the actual facts.

Hence your statement that bland was so bored with Miliband he was taking to drink, when in fact he's tee-total.

You're providing your own interpretation which has scant regard for the truth. Making it up in other words, or spin.

The statement above was an untruth, which you were spreading in an attempt to discredit a politician. Whether you are aware you're doing it, or simply can't be arsed to fact-check makes no difference IMO, it's still spin.

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claig · 30/04/2015 09:05

'most of what you've been doing here recently is spin for UKIP'

No because spin is lies and I am not lying, just giving an opinion.

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wigglylines · 30/04/2015 09:05

Not that i'm defending their use of Spin!

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claig · 30/04/2015 09:04

Th media is trying to tell us he won't make it in South Thanet. But as usual, I think they are not telling the truth. Wait until he gets into Parliamnet, he will show the luvvies in there up for what they are. You ain't seen nothing yet!

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wigglylines · 30/04/2015 09:04

"even Brand couldn't handle some of Ed's bland spin answers and had to take to swigging from a large bottle of what looked like high proof alcohol on more than one occasion to keep his spirits up."

Brand is tee-total these days, very publicly so. But no need to let the facts get in the way of a good story, eh?

Funny how you gave a go at the parties for spin Claig, yet most of what you've been doing here recently is spin for UKIP.

firesidechat · 30/04/2015 09:03

I had to leave the room last night when this was on the news. Brand and Miliband together, at the same time!!!!! My absolute worst nightmare X 10.

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claig · 30/04/2015 09:02

lordsandladies, Farage has had some major bad luck in life that has brought him close to death a few times. That is why he has courage and that is why he is unstoppable. He takes the luvvies on, he has no fear.

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lordsandladies · 30/04/2015 08:57

Just been sucked into reading Farages wiki entry and hadn't realised he'd had a testical removed.

All that now comes to mind is that song from school "Hitler has only got one. .."

Odd Confused

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claig · 30/04/2015 08:54

'I think you and I are on the same page re establishment but on totally different corners.'

Yes, that is why we both like Brand. Brand is absolutely right that the country is run by elites who are above and beyond politics and the luvvies are just their servants. But Brand ignores the only real people's revolution and the real People's Army that will go some way to put the people in charge and plays a pie-in-the-sky pied piper pipedream role of pretending that his non-voting revolution will change things.

Brand helps the luvvies, not voting helps them. Farage will put a spanner in their wheel and that is why they are petrified of UKIP and use the media to try and denigrate the People's Army and the people's revolution.

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claig · 30/04/2015 08:49

Labour is being wiped out in Scotland and UKIP will be Labour's main opponent in the old Labour heartland of the North of England. Are all those working class voters wrong or have they sussed what the Oxbridge Labour luvvie teams of millionaires are really all about and whom they really serve?

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 30/04/2015 08:49

I think you and I are on the same page re establishment but on totally different corners. You're v right wing and I'm v left wing.

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claig · 30/04/2015 08:43

JazzAnnNonMouse, I like Brand, i think he is good. But unfortunately he is in with the luvvies. He, possibly unwittingly, helps their cause. He bashes Farage and UKIP and the luvvies laugh and the Oxbridge teams of advisers applaud, that's just what they want - anything to stop the real working class people's revolution.

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claig · 30/04/2015 08:38

'Ukip is more establishment than all the other parties put together!'

I watched it but it is just the usual stuff. The argument he uses to show that UKIP is Establishment is that they want to abolish inheritance tax which will benefit the richest.

But I am not Establishment and i don't believe in inheritance tax as a matter of principle. Why should someone like Gordpn Brown and his band of Labour Oxbridge cronies, some with PPEs, get their hands on the wealth of rich people after they die when those people have paid tax on earned income all their lives? Why should someone like Gordon and the gang decide where that money will be spent - on things such as foreign aid or windfarm subsidies etc etc.

Why shouldn't people be allowed to pass their wealth onto their families? What business is it of the government to take a portion of that accumulated wealth?

It is a matter of principle. It is about the primacy of family over the state about family over lavish luvvies spending money that they never earned.

UKIP is the most working class party now, yet UKIP voters aren't interested in soaking the rich. But they want an end to corporate cronies and their luvvie pals in the metropolitan elite who stitch things up for themselves, award themselves expenses and impose minimum alcohol pricing levels on ordinary people.

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Erudite · 30/04/2015 08:22

Dear lord, that was excrutiating.

Has Ed lost the ability to enunciate?