Milibrand will be released today! Sensation of the campaign!

[claig]

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?

"You gotta do it"

You gotta do wot you gotta do, Ed, even if it does your Ed in.

This is starting to get a bit "lively", a bit "real". This is taking it to the streets and out of the elite's metropolitan mansions. This is Red Ed speaking from the heart, to the people, without his autocues and his Oxbrdige team in tow.Way to go!

Ed has left his 'two kitchen' broadcast approach and has hotfooted it down to Brand's metropolitan kitchen. The Oxbridge team are throwing the kicthen sink at this. Labour votes have been draining away to the SNP, UKIP and the Greens and a senior adviser has obviously decided to put a plug in it.

Claig, I can't help but wonder what you will do with your time once the GE is over and UKIP have the couple of seats they are predicted to get. You're going to be so bored! Unless, as I suspect, you're on their payroll in which case they might find a little job to tide you over till the next GE campaign.

'I can't help but wonder what you will do with your time once the GE is over and UKIP have the couple of seats they are predicted to get'

I'll dry away the tears, reach for a glass of the minimum pricing level alcohol that the elite graciously grant us, gaze out at the windmill towering and whirring above me outside my window, tear up my Daily Mail because the elite won't allow us that little pleasure anymore, and do what "you gotta do", give up hope that anything will ever change and accept the wishes of the Oxbridge teenage teams. It'll be the end of the people's dreams.

I'm not on UKIP's payroll, I'm far too politically incorrect for them.

I really like Russell brand but I'm surprised a ukip supporter does too...

I think Russell Brand is great, he livens everything up and actually dares to break free and ask some challenging questions. But he is the Etablishment's secret weapon against the people. He is their Labour love-in luvvie interviewer and sleb to fool the people and stop the real people's revolution - UKIP.

But it's great entertainment and the Establishment and their Oxbridge teenage teams always win, so we might as well have a laugh by watching Brand's comedy act.

I'm looking forward to watching the full interview. The mirroring of body language in the clip has had me shaking my head in despair much of the morning. I don't think this will do much for Ed's efforts to appear more statesmanlike, I do think it will do a lot to make David Cameron appear more out of touch with the voting population.

You have to ask yourself though, how many of the world's leaders would ever have consented to this kind of interview - Obama, Putin, Merkel...? I can't see it myself.

Nope not a word. Don't understand a single one.

Is it a video of Ed Milliband with the mouthy arsehole Brand?

'I do think it will do a lot to make David Cameron appear more out of touch with the voting population'

I agree and that is why it is a good move by Ed's team to send him to see Brand. It won't harm Ed among the voters who have already decided to vote Labour and it may pick up new younger voters, because my guess is that progressive Brand will have helped Ed with this interview.

But Cameron wouldn't dare be interviewed by Brand because Brand would make sure to make Cameron look bad, and as "lively" as Cameron is getting, that would be a bit too "bloody lively" even for his new persona.

'Is it a video of Ed Milliband with the mouthy arsehole Brand?'

Yes, it is apparently a twenty minute interview of Ed by Brand. It will be a platform for Ed to explain why we "gotta" vote Labour and my guess is that the outcome will be that Brand will probably think that if you've "gotta" vote, then a vote for Ed is better than a vote for Cameron.

The Oxbridge team must have left Brand's house, clmbed into their limousines, rubbed their hands and said "let's see how lively" Cameron is after this master teenage stratagem.

OMG it makes him look like a muppet. What's with the "gotta"s??

Sure this might help with the youngsters but those who were worried about credibility are going to be even more worried now.

Did anyone see Russell Brand's incomprehensible rant on question time? I actually think he's an intelligent man but to me he came across as an angry and unhinged bastion of anti-capitalism and any political credibility he had was lost on me that night. I am surprised on the back of that performance that Ed has engaged with him.

I might open a book on how long it will take Ed to quote Russell Brand in the House of Commons... "Well David, even Russell Brand told me that he thinks xxx is a good idea..."

I have yet to see the full interview but rather than showing ed as being "in touch", my concern is that even in the clip he comes across as too eager to please, too easily influenced and lacking the statesmanlike qualities that I would like to see in a PM.

The big win as I mentioned will be the indirect impact it has on voter views of David Cameron.

'Did anyone see Russell Brand's incomprehensible rant on question time?'

I think that quite a lot of what Brand does is an act.

'I am surprised on the back of that performance that Ed has engaged with him.'

They need Brand desperately. They want to tap into his popularity and appear edgy and cool, as if Ed is with the people. They know that Cameron can't pull the same cool tricks because his supporters aren't edgy like Brand and that Brand is a progressive who opposes the Tories tooth and nail. Cameron has got some footballers and some actors but in general they aren't very funny and the people like laughs and Brand is a comedian who can deliver them.

I have no idea how this makes Cameron look out of touch, does it mean that we're somehow supposed to relate to Brand or that he represents us?? No thanks.
I also saw him on question time a few months ago. I cannot understand why he is given any airtime.

Brand insulted Ed balls and has taken the mickey out of Miliband and Labour before, but all that is history to the Labour Oxbridge teams. They have to try and suck up to Brand and try and win more votes and they know that the Tories have nothing similar in their locker.

Claig, that's pretty much exactly what Cameron responded with:

"But politics and life and elections and jobs and the economy is not a joke.

"Russell Brand's a joke.

"Ed Miliband, to hang out with Russell Brand, he's a joke.

"This is not funny, this is about the election, this is about our future, it's about jobs, it's about the economy, it's about the recovery."

I agree with him. Bookaboo - I agree with you too, but this has already been used by labour to turn it on Cameron when ed responded:

"I think a joke is saying you want this election to be about leadership and then refusing to debate me," he said.

Biggest mistake Cameron has made.

Claim im surprised your keyboard has any O X B R I D G or E letters left...

'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.

Claig*

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

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.

Looking forward to seeing what you all think about the full interview!

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.

Seems the full interview may be delayed until the weekend.

This election is becoming a parody.