Not one to stay anonymous, Russell Brand mixes with the Occupy London protesters.
Up until now I’ve never been a massive fan of Russell Brand but he went way up in my estimation after making Jeremy Paxman look like a floundering twerp in the Newsnight Interview which has gone viral.
Brand has never made a secret of his serial addictions to drugs, sex and porn or that he is a shameless attention seeker. On the contrary, he has built his stage persona around these vices. He is only half joking when he says that he is going for a look that crosses Jack Sparrow with Spartacus.
It was clear that Paxman didn’t expect him to come up with such an articulate and forceful response to his usual sneery line of questioning.
For someone who has built his reputation on exposing the shameful lies and deceit that is the stock in trade of politicians, Paxman was put on the back foot by Brand’s entirely logical conclusion that voting changes nothing.
Now while Paxman blasts his peers for appearing on Strictly Come Dancing, Brand shows that his backing for people’s democracy by joining the massed ranks of the Occupy London protest.
As a multimillionaire comedian he makes an unlikely revolutionary but by bringing these issues back into the headlines he’s doing far more good for Britain than David Cameron and his cronies ever will.
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