Gordon Brown commenting on Russel Brand/Jonathan Ross??

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Shouldnt he be more worried about the state of the country and not what those 2 get up to on radio??

it's called 'wag the dog'.

Sorry to be thick but what did he say about them?? I haven't heard anything about it but it sounds a strange thing for him to be discussing!

ok i've missed it
someone bring me up to speed
What did they do..can't be arsed to go and look

here

classic smoke-screen

to take our attention away from the almighty mess our country is in

I think the actions of the BBC are his business since we are legally obliged to licenc our tvs and that money goes to the BBC and so on

Completely out of place. Quite inappropriate.

o m g

We pay the BBC and these two a lot of money; they have behaved appallingly . This type of vulgar and brutish childishness is IMO extremely arrogant . He has a right to speak up against such behaviour. They are publically funded as much as he is.

No -one is going to wake-up tomorrow morning and say ' hey what recession/stock-market crash/ plunging pound ?' just because Brown has expressed an opinion on something other than monetary policy.

they'll get off scot free.

doubt they'll even be disciplined at all, much less sacked.

your money at work!

YABU - he probably gave a one line quote to some annoying journalist.

I think it is an overreaction for the pm to wade into the discussion of what two djs said....fundamentally it doesn't matter who pays them GB has direct reports who he has commented less upon in times of trouble

not for politics and light entertsinment to meet

I think they are out of order. As for Gordon Brown. Do you think his having one of those days we all have at work. I've got this really, really important stuff to do but it boring, giving me a headache I've had enough for a while. Emmm Let me do something so less important like answer naff e-mails and order more stationary until I'm back in the right frame of mind to tackle the big job again. What do you think?

what they did was criminal and it was condoned by a publicly funded body. He was right to comment

what I dont get is that if a nobody rang up an old man and left lewd messages there would be more police involvement

edited to add - he can and should be concerned with more than one problem at a time

it is nothing whatsoever to do with GB

makes him look ridiculous, commenting on a spat which only has the attention it is getting because the bbc is self flagellating over reporting its own misdemeanours

He was asked what he thought about it and he answered.

I'm only making an educated guess, mind, but I reckon Gordon is more worried about the state of the economy. Shocker, eh?

To balance things out David Cameron also had his say about their antics...

Why should the prime minister not say something about it. They behaved apallingly.

They were rude, but thats what they are paid to be isnt it? A pair of rude buggers!

As for GB, he must have been fed up with all this economic melt down talk, gawd knows I am.

Well I think it has been blown out of all proportion.
Yes they acted like prats - and you would have thought Jonathon Ross would have known better, though maybe not Russell Brand - he's not known for having much of a moral handbrake is he?
But it was prerecorded, and could have been pulled before air, so someone at the BBC has some fast talking to do.

BUT - I can't help feeling that to have it ground out at every opportunity by a near hysterical media, and now politicians, is giving the whole event way too much exposure and publicity.

jmho

Blimey, what a kerfuffle - it was out of order though, but they have apologised.

only RB has apologised - JR seems too be a little cowardly in coming forward

V funny (& rather concerning) that it got a higher news priority than George Osbourne & the dodgy greek yacht yesterday.

George Osbourne: "what I did was wrong, but there was no wrong doing"

Russel Brand: "What I did was wrong, but it was quite funny"

Both idiots