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Russell Brand wins well-deserved Foot in Mouth award

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claig · 04/12/2014 07:38

"Yesterday the comedian and self-styled revolutionary was honoured with an award – for speaking gobbledygook.

He won the annual Foot in Mouth prize from the Plain English campiagn, joining the likes of John Prescott and George W Bush."
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"The group’s website said that Brand’s ‘seemingly endless stream of gibberish, both written and verbal’ had clinched the award."
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"Organisers said Brand – who has carved a career out of using many, often inflammatory, words when one would do – was ‘out on his own’ in the competition."

Surely that can't be right? He must have faced stiff competition from the Labour front bench

"The Plain English judges singled out this rant from The Guardian: ‘I felt very connected to activism – particularly activism that feels loaded with potential. Not the oppositional activism that seems like there’s a stasis around it – earnestly sincere, but a monolith.’

How they managed to single this rant out from the rest of the rants in the Guardian beats me. But they are professionals. To me it just seems like New Labour speak without the polar bears.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2858403/Brand-wins-award-gobbledygook.html

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Pantone363 · 05/12/2014 09:10

It's like when you say hello to someone at the bus stop and they suddenly start raving and shaking their fists at the sky.

Comment of the week. I needed a laugh!

SagaNorensSnowflakeTrousers · 05/12/2014 09:10

Aww, are you trying to tap into Russell's wackiness for UKIP? "Look, we UKIPers can be wacky and funny and have a laugh, too? We're not all just a bunch of disablist racists, see!"

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:11

'It's like when you say hello to someone at the bus stop and they suddenly start raving and shaking their fists at the sky.'

I agree that that is what Brand is like, but it's not funny.

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SagaNorensSnowflakeTrousers · 05/12/2014 09:16

Erm, the bus stop comment wasn't about Brand I don't think.....................

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:17

'Look, we UKIPers can be wacky and funny and have a laugh, too?'

Not at all. Everyone knows that Farage is funny, has a laugh and a pint. That is why he is so popular among voters. That is why the Establishment need wacky, funny people who can have a laugh to try and take him on. They are on the ropes, that is their last hope.

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:18

'Erm, the bus stop comment wasn't about Brand I don't think.....................'

Are you sure? If fitted him to a tee.

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SagaNorensSnowflakeTrousers · 05/12/2014 09:21

I am quite sure.

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:22

quite? Not certain then?

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Pantone363 · 05/12/2014 09:24

Claig I can't believe YOU'VE fallen for the pint nonsense. So so patronising.

Honestly you are starting to sound like you've joined a cult

Pantone363 · 05/12/2014 09:24

No it really was aimed at you

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:29

I haven't joined a cult, I'm having a laugh, and the pint thing is important, as trivial as it seems, because it highlights the difference between Farage and the rest of them and shows he is like everyone else.

Compared to the Posh Couple on Gogglebox, Farage is an amateur, and that is just more of a laugh too.

"He said he had "two pints, about five or six glasses (of wine and champagne)" over the course of the night, adding: "I like a drink but, crikey, these guys are professionals."

www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/gogglebox-nigel-farage-couldnt-hold-4745431

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SquidgyMaltLoaf · 05/12/2014 09:33

Claig, the definition of 'quite' is 'To the utmost or most absolute extent or degree; absolutely; completely'.

Just sayin'...

trice · 05/12/2014 09:36

I am pretty sure Russell Brands mind is pretty fragile. I always think he is going to shatter when I see him do interviews. I really enjoyed his parklife reply video though.

I think Nigel Farage is a dangerous and sinister man. I never laugh at the far right. They have form.

GilbertBlytheWouldGiftIt · 05/12/2014 09:37

The People

Consist of whom? Who is this putative globular entity?

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:38

I like Brand, her is funny, he has a laugh. I don't think he is fragile and is also quite clever. I think the Establishment think that of him too.

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:39

'The People'

is the majority, the ordinary people whom Brand says he speaks for and whom Farage says he speaks for, and whom the Establishment pretend they speak for.

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SagaNorensSnowflakeTrousers · 05/12/2014 09:41

And why do you think he was filmed having that pint, Claig?

It's to convince people like you it's genuine. It isn't.

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:42

"Everywhere you look there is discontent with the mainstream, the establishment, with the corporatist politics that we've been spoon-fed for the past few decades... And who can blame people for wanting to put an end to the cronyist politics that plagues the West?"
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"All around the United Kingdom people are itching to become involved in the political debate. Just, sadly for Mr Cameron, Mr Clegg, and Mr Miliband, not alongside any of them."

Those are the people, and UKIP is a populist movement - a People's Army - and Brand is an attempt at a leftwing populist movement. The Establishment need that to counteract the real People's Army.

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:48

"And why do you think he was filmed having that pint, Claig?"

Because as Clegg, Establishment great mind and thinker, said of Farage, he has a "beer-swilling bonhomie". The Establishment want to portray Farage as a beer-swilling buffoon, they hope he gets drunk and trips up and spills drink over his trousers and looks a fool. But it won't work because he is genuine.

That is why he did the Googlebox show with the Posh Couple

"I thought they were genuine"

and that is why he questions if Brand is genuine

"if your attempts are genuine"

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SagaNorensSnowflakeTrousers · 05/12/2014 09:51

Sorry, the only thing your last post succeeded in was making me visualise Nigel Farage in wet trousers.

HopLittleBunny · 05/12/2014 09:57

Who are The Establishment? Do they wear turquoise tracksuits?

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:57

'visualise Nigel Farage in wet trousers'

But that is exactly what happened on Gogglebox. It was the Establishment's dream, they must have thought that Christmas had come early, now they had got him at last. But they don't understand the people. The people don't care, it is just more of a laugh and adds further to Farage's popularity.

"Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt said Mr Farage's TV appearance is a 'rip-roaring, alcohol-fuelled watch', adding: 'He gets p*** with them, but they also give him a grilling'.
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The group down several pints of ale in a nearby pub before retiring to the couple's garden for champagne. At one point, Mr Farage is seen tripping on a step and smashing his glass, and is forced to change into a pair of Mr Parker's ripped jeans.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860098/I-m-not-wealthy-insists-Farage-Ukip-leader-says-poorest-man-politics-despite-earning-79-000-year-having-chauffeur.html

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claig · 05/12/2014 09:58

'Who are The Establishment? Do they wear turquoise tracksuits?'

I think Jimmy Savile may have done so, I don't like to think what the rest of them wear.

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SagaNorensSnowflakeTrousers · 05/12/2014 10:05

I missed all this then; I don't watch Gogglebox and I don't read The Daily Mail.

SquidgyMaltLoaf · 05/12/2014 10:05

I'm pretty sure I don't want someone who thinks it's funny to get wasted on national TV to run the country.