Question Time 23:12 - Dec 11 with 12155 views | reddythered | Absolutely hysterical. Russell Brand being made to look a grade A fool; one of his acolytes in the crowd interrupting, making accusations. Even a UKIP supporter made him look like a 6th form student. | |
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Question Time on 15:19 - Dec 12 with 1497 views | GreatBritton | My son, who was in his early twenties at the time, watched Brand in the Paxman interview. He was impressed at his passion and wanted to find out more about various political issues. I don't care if the man is an egotist - we all are, at heart - he's probably doing some good in exciting some sort of interest in young people. It's not easy either in a moribund political climate dominated by mediocre politicians and threatened by lunatic right wing figures like Farage. Brand has money. So did Tony Benn. Doesn't make them corrupt. | | | |
Question Time on 15:25 - Dec 12 with 1487 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:18 - Dec 12 by Darran | Oh come on Paul you don't really believe that Brand gives a f*ck,I love your passion Paul but if Brand wasn't disagreeing with Farage you'd think he was the same as all the other rich c*nts. |
All the rich c*nts? Like those Cheap Trick, chaps? Having a few bob doesn't automatically make you a wrong 'un in precisely same way not having two pennies to rub together makes you a paragon of virtue. The relative worth of an individual isn't measured by the thickness of a wallet. | |
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Question Time on 15:25 - Dec 12 with 1484 views | perchrockjack | Russ s interest in the "working class" is purely for the benefit of Russell Brand. He is frankly taking the piEss out of every one who is not privy to his earning power and his drug fuelled ego. A deeply disgusting individual who uses the "working class" as a tool for himself and his career. Just wished FARAGE HAD TW@ATTTED HIM VERY HARD | |
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Question Time on 15:28 - Dec 12 with 1474 views | londonlisa2001 |
Question Time on 15:19 - Dec 12 by GreatBritton | My son, who was in his early twenties at the time, watched Brand in the Paxman interview. He was impressed at his passion and wanted to find out more about various political issues. I don't care if the man is an egotist - we all are, at heart - he's probably doing some good in exciting some sort of interest in young people. It's not easy either in a moribund political climate dominated by mediocre politicians and threatened by lunatic right wing figures like Farage. Brand has money. So did Tony Benn. Doesn't make them corrupt. |
no one is saying that money makes Brand corrupt. I am saying that the way that he behaves is in contrast to the way he speaks, and that makes him a hypocrite. There is a difference. On the wider point about most politicians being mediocre - I couldn't agree more. Brand's problem is that he is not bright enough to really understand. Hence why he made some sort of patronising comment in that self serving crap he wrote about his 'experience' about Camilla Cavendish, who absolutely wiped the floor with him last night. | | | |
Question Time on 15:28 - Dec 12 with 1473 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:25 - Dec 12 by perchrockjack | Russ s interest in the "working class" is purely for the benefit of Russell Brand. He is frankly taking the piEss out of every one who is not privy to his earning power and his drug fuelled ego. A deeply disgusting individual who uses the "working class" as a tool for himself and his career. Just wished FARAGE HAD TW@ATTTED HIM VERY HARD |
I was rather hoping the old boy had bent his walking stick over the lice-ridden head of that hideous communist in the back row. | |
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Question Time on 15:29 - Dec 12 with 1469 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:28 - Dec 12 by londonlisa2001 | no one is saying that money makes Brand corrupt. I am saying that the way that he behaves is in contrast to the way he speaks, and that makes him a hypocrite. There is a difference. On the wider point about most politicians being mediocre - I couldn't agree more. Brand's problem is that he is not bright enough to really understand. Hence why he made some sort of patronising comment in that self serving crap he wrote about his 'experience' about Camilla Cavendish, who absolutely wiped the floor with him last night. |
Cavendish was probably the most impressive member of last night's panel. | |
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Question Time on 15:32 - Dec 12 with 1460 views | londonlisa2001 |
Question Time on 15:29 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | Cavendish was probably the most impressive member of last night's panel. |
by a mile. | | | |
Question Time on 15:32 - Dec 12 with 1457 views | Darran |
Question Time on 15:25 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | All the rich c*nts? Like those Cheap Trick, chaps? Having a few bob doesn't automatically make you a wrong 'un in precisely same way not having two pennies to rub together makes you a paragon of virtue. The relative worth of an individual isn't measured by the thickness of a wallet. |
No it doesn't but we're talking about Russell f*cking Brand here. | |
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Question Time on 15:36 - Dec 12 with 1452 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:32 - Dec 12 by Darran | No it doesn't but we're talking about Russell f*cking Brand here. |
I can't take him seriously enough to summon up much in the way of strong feelings. He's more like something I would have pointed at and told the kids "remember when I said it was important to eat your greens? He didn't." | |
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Question Time on 15:37 - Dec 12 with 1449 views | perchrockjack | Brand is typical of the hampstead socialist who peddle this working class mantra persistently ,hoping to con people into thinking they re on their side. No really. Brand is probabaly the biggest hypocrite of all and utterly without crwedibility and should never be on QT . Humanist? Tell that to the Andrew SACHS family. When the bird with the blue hair spouted off you just knew what was coming. I am now a fascist and maybe it wouldn't have been a bad thing if Hitler had won the war | |
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Question Time on 15:37 - Dec 12 with 1448 views | londonlisa2001 |
Question Time on 15:05 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | That comparison is unfair on Johnson who for all his contrived buffoonery is a Balliol classics graduate and a writer of genuine distinction. His Dream of Rome is superb, Lisa, and his Churchill biography is first rate. (Christmas is coming fast) Brand, so far as I can see, projects himself as a sort of ethereal auto-didact. Which is fine, he can be whoever he wants, but does owe it to himself to get properly prepared for public showdowns to avoid embarrassment...for the viewer as much as for his own sake. |
Oh, the buffoonery is just an act, but he is quite a lot more unpleasant than his contrived persona. The problem with Boris is that for all his posturing, he, again, is not quite as bright (or as quick on his feet) as he likes to think. He is well read, and as you say, writes extremely well, but where Brand slips into what he believes to be intellectual sounding garbage to hide his lack of knowledge, Boris does exactly the same thing with Latin or Greek. | | | |
Question Time on 15:39 - Dec 12 with 1441 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:37 - Dec 12 by londonlisa2001 | Oh, the buffoonery is just an act, but he is quite a lot more unpleasant than his contrived persona. The problem with Boris is that for all his posturing, he, again, is not quite as bright (or as quick on his feet) as he likes to think. He is well read, and as you say, writes extremely well, but where Brand slips into what he believes to be intellectual sounding garbage to hide his lack of knowledge, Boris does exactly the same thing with Latin or Greek. |
I do that. | |
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Question Time on 15:41 - Dec 12 with 1437 views | controversial_jack |
Question Time on 15:39 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | I do that. |
As I stated on here earlier. it's about character assai nation, nobody is trying to debate his points, | | | |
Question Time on 15:44 - Dec 12 with 1428 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:41 - Dec 12 by controversial_jack | As I stated on here earlier. it's about character assai nation, nobody is trying to debate his points, |
It would be a pretty short debate.... Everything is the fault of the bankers. No it's not. If I were Russell Brand I may have tried to make space for a reference to my John Thomas but, that aside, the above would be a concise indication of the level of the debate. | |
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Question Time on 15:45 - Dec 12 with 1426 views | londonlisa2001 |
Question Time on 15:39 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | I do that. |
ha ha - a lot do it with Shakespeare - there are all sorts of ways of saying 'umm' and sounding intelligent ;-) | | | |
Question Time on 15:48 - Dec 12 with 1416 views | perchrockjack | People taking out loans they couldn't afford was as bad as them being loaned in the first place. Its debt we re talking about.. Don't go into it, live within means, Simple | |
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Question Time on 15:48 - Dec 12 with 1416 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:45 - Dec 12 by londonlisa2001 | ha ha - a lot do it with Shakespeare - there are all sorts of ways of saying 'umm' and sounding intelligent ;-) |
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it." I can do The Bard for effect too, he's always good for an apt quote. | |
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Question Time on 15:55 - Dec 12 with 1398 views | GreatBritton |
Question Time on 15:48 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in it." I can do The Bard for effect too, he's always good for an apt quote. |
"Words, words, words" (from the same play, as you'll know) I can do Bardish too. Doesn't make you a bad person. | | | |
Question Time on 15:57 - Dec 12 with 1394 views | Lohengrin |
Question Time on 15:55 - Dec 12 by GreatBritton | "Words, words, words" (from the same play, as you'll know) I can do Bardish too. Doesn't make you a bad person. |
Makes you a very good one in my view. | |
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Question Time on 16:01 - Dec 12 with 1389 views | GreatBritton |
Question Time on 15:57 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | Makes you a very good one in my view. |
'Tis said Shakespeare invented human nature. Now that's some invention. Like Russell Brand, he attacked establishment views. End of comparison. | | | |
Question Time on 16:01 - Dec 12 with 1389 views | londonlisa2001 |
Question Time on 15:41 - Dec 12 by controversial_jack | As I stated on here earlier. it's about character assai nation, nobody is trying to debate his points, |
what points are those? "Speaking as a political activist, everything about this oppressive feudal system is designed by the rich bankers and the well oiled machinery surrounding them to keep the proletariat in our collective places while systematically screwing our hard working communities for every penny they can get their self serving, grubby little paws on mate (or love, depending on the gender) and I call on everyone to reject their archaic, class ridden, policies and to rise up against them" So, Russell, what do you think we should do instead? "Don't ask me, mate, I'm just a comedian" That type of thing you mean? | | | |
Question Time on 16:11 - Dec 12 with 1378 views | skippyjack |
Question Time on 15:48 - Dec 12 by Lohengrin | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in it." I can do The Bard for effect too, he's always good for an apt quote. |
Exactly.. to be a genius.. you've got to be mad.. to get the extra.. you've got to be mad.. it's like a switch you turn on.. you're awed.. gobsmacked with the madness in which he works.. have you ever seen a craftsman with OCD? He checks without even looking.. he's got different eyes to everybody else.. he's not taught.. he has his own instincts.. he doesn't hide.. he crafts instinctively.. he doesn't read books to cover up flaws.. he just understands quickly.. Boris and Brand don't have that understanding.. they think they do.. but they don't.. the flaws are there.. no politician is flawless.. because they're unwilling to go the extra mile. | |
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Question Time on 16:18 - Dec 12 with 1371 views | Lord_Bony | They have nt got the SKILLS skip | |
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Question Time on 16:46 - Dec 12 with 1343 views | quiff |
Question Time on 15:48 - Dec 12 by perchrockjack | People taking out loans they couldn't afford was as bad as them being loaned in the first place. Its debt we re talking about.. Don't go into it, live within means, Simple |
One of the most simplistic and idiotic things I've ever read on here, impressive! I'm no fan of Brand, at all - but arguably the Left needs him at the moment. Beyond him and Owen Jones there really is precious little new blood coming through. Like it or not people like Brand get youngsters interested and questioning things. Politics is also increasingly becoming personality based, see Boris and Farage as living proof of that. [Post edited 12 Dec 2014 16:48]
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Question Time on 17:06 - Dec 12 with 1330 views | controversial_jack |
Question Time on 16:01 - Dec 12 by londonlisa2001 | what points are those? "Speaking as a political activist, everything about this oppressive feudal system is designed by the rich bankers and the well oiled machinery surrounding them to keep the proletariat in our collective places while systematically screwing our hard working communities for every penny they can get their self serving, grubby little paws on mate (or love, depending on the gender) and I call on everyone to reject their archaic, class ridden, policies and to rise up against them" So, Russell, what do you think we should do instead? "Don't ask me, mate, I'm just a comedian" That type of thing you mean? |
I think he would probably agree with you | | | |
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