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?

"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.

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!

Not that i'm defending their use of Spin!

'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.

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.

'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.

'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?

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

"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.

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

'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.

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.

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

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.

Brand has now endorsed voting. - for greens.

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.

Perhaps they promised to shag him?

Part 2 of the interview is out Monday.

Over a million views of the interview. Leaders' Question Time last week had 4 million, so getting a quarter of a prime time BBC audience on a youtube channel is pretty good.

Social media is playing an increasing part in elections and it's no bad thing.

My favourite response to it was the comedian David Schneider who said "So Miliband visited Russell Brand? Probably wanted some tips on how to attract women but I bet Ed didn't give him any"

I think Brand may find some form of words that suggest an endorsement of Miliband in part 2 of the interview.

I think the whole Brand hyping by the BBC, the New Statesman, the Guardian and the left wing Establishment leads to the possibility of such an endorsement. Looks like the left wing establishment may have outplayed Cameron on this one.

"Probably the most exciting political news this week was Russell Brand's interview with Ed Miliband.

Following a snap of the Labour leader visiting the comedian and self-styled revolutionary, the media speculated about whether the strident non-voter would come out in support of Labour. In the end, he didn't.

BUT, via Twitter, the great bearded tease has released another trailer previewing an extra part to his interview that hasn't been released. "We held back the best bit of Milibrand," he tweeted.

It strongly suggests that Brand will give his verdict (an "election conclusion"), and hints at a Labour endorsement (although, just to throw some quinoa among the pigeons, it also features a screengrab of a piece suggesting he will back the Greens)."

www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/russell-brand-going-endorse-labour-part-ii

Here is the new trailer for part 2

"You gotta do it". You gotta wotch it.

Although I'm not too enamored by Miliband's venture into landscape gardening today. A water feature would have been better, or possibly wind chimes.

he great bearded tease has released another trailer previewing an extra part to his interview that hasn't been released. "We held back the best bit of Milibrand," he tweeted.

Oh God, it's tips on how to pull the ladies isn't it?

'Oh God, it's tips on how to pull the ladies isn't it?'

No, this is too serious. This is the election. Labour are desperate. The teenage teams must have something up their sleeve. There will probably be some mockery of Cameron etc followed by the punchline, Brand possibly endorsing the left wing establishment that has given him so much hype and publicity over the past year in his role of taking on "Nasty Nigel" and trying to stop the People's Army wreaking havoc in Labour heartlands.

I have long thought that Brand has been built up and hyped up by the Establishment in order to stop the real threat to the Establishment - UKIP and Farage.

Brand was given airtime and publicity in his anti-establishment "revolutionary" persona which was a counter to the real anti-establishment Farage who threatened the core values and goals of the Establishment. My guess is that the "anti-estaishment" Brand will end up near enough backing the Establishment in their left wing form on Monday.

Seriously claig, what do you have against teenagers? You speak about them with such sneering contempt.

UKIP are the establishment, warts and all.

I use teenage advisers as a joke. Teenagers by definition are not as wise as older people because they have not lived as long and have not seen all the events and understood all the past.