Milibrand will be released today! Sensation of the campaign!

Reading some of the comments of Brand's followers on youtube, one stood out above the rest for its truth and perspicacity.

"I'd love to see Russell interview farage"

"Farage would wreck him"

There's no fooling the young! They are switched on!

If you notice in the video, 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.

You are right, it won't work. Brand's audience believe in elites running the show who are above politics just as Brand said to Ed, an Establishment of coverups and law cases dropped and documents shredded and Ed did nothing to convince them that he has the courage or guts to do anything about it.

Young people aren't stupid and Brand's audience certainly aren't which is why Labour are desperate to try and reach them in some way.

A spin job of Ed turning up late at night being bowled to underarm in full suit and tie won't cut it with Brand's audience. The teenage team have underestimated the public.

Well, at least Brand doesn't endorse Miliband, so the modernisers in the Conservative Party got off lightly.

But the teenage team left Brand's house happy bunnies. They achieved their aim of pushing Ed's bland message of "Britain can be better". It can be if Farage gets in, but Ed, as usual, offered platitudes but little policy.

Miliband says "this is important, I'm not looking for euphoria"

The teenage team exchange worried glances, this is starting to sound like Ed believes the teenage team's own hype that they are paid to generate. Keep it real Ed, there'll be no flipping euphoria if you get in.

Brand has to get in something about Farage, because he is the Establishment's greatest fear. He will upset their applecart. So he says to Ed this feeling that Farage tries to capitalise on about ordinary people not being listened to etc and Ed and Russell then laugh about Farage balancing a pint on his head.

The teenage team from Oxbridge are ecstatic. This is going better than even they could have planned.

Brand says that people think that "the elites have got their talons into the Tory party".

The teenage team love this type of stuff, no mention of their Oxbridge PPE Labour team. Brilliant stuff.

The video has been released. It's 15 minutes.

A must watch. It may decide the election, at least the teenage team hope so!

"At the time of writing, the trailer of Brand's interview with Miliband has reached over 200,000 views. The Labour Party's party political broadcast, also released on Tuesday evening, has just 15,000."

news.sky.com/story/1474209/milibands-brand-interview-is-no-joke

'could a Brand endorsement unlock the young vote for Labour?'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/apr/28/russell-brand-ed-miliband-labour-hugh-muir-zoe-williams-video

If Brand actually does come out and say as near as he can that Labour is the best party to vote for, that is bad news for the modernisers in the Conservative party.

If Brand does do something like that, then I have to hand it to the Oxbridge teenage team, they will have really pulled a rabbit out of the hat and it makes you wonder if it may have planned by the teenage whizzkids for many months now, with the bombshell news coming out one week before the election.

The whole BBC buildup of Brand with his appearances and hype to counter Farage will have had the Oxbridge team chuckling up their sleeves.

Yep, Brand the Establishment's Useful Idiot and their Pied Piper. I think they want and need him to stop Farage and UKIP.

"Russell Brand: why I wrote the Pied Piper of Hamelin"

www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/nov/05/russell-brand-why-i-wrote-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin

'Does anyone doubt the PM's ability to get the better of an incoherent babbler like Brand? '

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11570185/Russell-Brand-is-absurd-and-stupid-but-hes-also-popular.-Ed-Miliband-was-right-to-talk-to-him.html

Yes! I think even Cameron doubts it. It takes more than just being "bloody lively" to get the better of Brand. Only Farage can trounce Brand.

Brand has cleverly got his UKIP video (which the Establishment must be very grateful for) up while the world eagerly awaits Miliband the Mockney and his wooing of the crowds as the mockney PPE tussles with the Rocket known as Rusty.

It looks like the much-awaited video could be out at midday.

“Monster Raving Labour Party - ‘Mockney’ Miliband cosies up with Brand” was the Sun’s splash, deriding the Labour leader for his admittedly questionable ‘street-speak’ in the trailer released ahead of the interview for the comedian-turned-revolutionary’s YouTube channel The Trews.
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The interview is so hotly anticipated that the release, which was due this weekend, is believed to have been pulled forward to Wednesday after Miliband was snapped leaving Brand’s east London home on Monday night.
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The teaser trailer for his interview with Miliband has been viewed more than 200,000 times, shared on Facebook by more than 500 users, and retweeted almost 1,000 times.
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Even some political journalists, like phone hacking reporter Peter Jukes and Sky’s political editor Faisal Islam, said they could see the reasoning behind Miliband’s decision to court the celebrity’s dedicated following.

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam)
April 28, 2015

Miliband-Brand interview will be seen by more people than watch C4N or Newsnight...more importantly, people who would prob not watch either.

— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes)
April 29, 2015

5hrs later @rustyrockets and @Ed_Miliband preview is up another 100k views. Future campaigns will mark this - a game changer I bet

On Brand’s YouTube channel, comments were overwhelmingly positive about Miliband’s decision to do the interview - even if they were not necessarily complimentary about the Labour leader himself."

www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/newspapers-mock-ed-miliband-russell-brand-interview-political-journalism

"This is what really matters about Ed Miliband's decision to talk to Brand. Never mind whether he looked silly or adopted a weird mockney accent or any of the rest of it. And never mind the jibes about millionaire lefty luvvies cosying up together (though don't they both have lovely houses?)

The point is that there are real people who might see the interview and Mr Miliband at least tried to speak to them.

David Cameron didn't. Instead he sneered something about Brand being "a joke", meaning Mr Miliband was wrong to speak to him. Now, I agree with the PM about Brand being a joke and a lot of people who read this will too. But here's the thing: we're not running for election, in an agonisingly close election where no potential voter should be written off or ignored. Mr Cameron is, and his response looks dangerously like contempt not for the idiotic Brand but the numerous people in his audience.

The misjudgement is all the more curious because once upon a time, Mr Cameron was pretty keen to embrace new media and new audiences. "

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11570185/Russell-Brand-is-absurd-and-stupid-but-hes-also-popular.-Ed-Miliband-was-right-to-talk-to-him.html

What the Telegraph journalist doesn't seem to understand is that Cameron could not have done an interview with Brand because Brand would probably have wiped the floor with him, like Farage would, whereas Brand will probably go easy on a Labour luvvie.

tellmemore1982, the trouble is that Cameron's new found "liveliness" is a joke and him calling Brand a "joke" is a bit late in the day and smacks of desperation.

I am actually starting to feel sorry for Cameron. He is trying hard now because this is the last lap. Cameron may win back some votes because Tories who have abandoned him might start feeling sorry for him as they see him try to get "lively", but Labour are laughing as they tap into Brand's popularity.

KatoPotato, I had to buy a new keyboard, the last one couldn't cope.

'does it mean that we're somehow supposed to relate to Brand or that he represents us?'

I think it is meant to show that Ed can relate to everyone - the endogenous growth theory academics and the hip and "revolutionary" youth that Brand appeals to. It is also meant to show that Ed has no fear, that he is prepared to be questioned and even laughed at by Brand (which Cameron couldn't afford to do), even though in reality, Brand, being a progressive, is obviously closer to Ed than to Cameron and therefore Ed won't get a very rough ride. The interview won't be "lively", it will be "cushtie", just the way the Labour Oxbridge advisers like it.