Russell Brand owned by RBS worker:

[Savvy]

http://www.theladbible.com/articles/russell-brand-s-war-on-bankers-may-be-over-after-this-hilarious-open-letter-from-rbs-worker

Pretentious t**t put well and truly in his place!!!! lol!!!

[jonrover]

I'll never know if he was put in his place or not, lost interest after two paragraphs.

[Dagenham Rover]

Worth a full read

[Muttley]

RBS worker "owned" by Russell Brand

I think I know who occupies the moral highground here...and it ain't the bloke who is upset cos his fancy dinner went cold.

[Glyn_Wigley]

When it comes to having the 'moral high ground' Brand is crouching in a ditch.

[wesisback]

I like Brand. He's a voice for the youth who feel disenfranchised with politics in a big way. I don't buy into this 'if you don't vote, don't complain when decisions are made'.
Brand has stirred interest in issues very close to my heart like TTIP that frankly scares the life out of me.

[silent majority]

I don't like the guy either. However he has been making some very relevant points, and for that reason alone he's shot up in my estimation.

[roversontheup]

I cannot stand him.  That said whilst I do agree with some of his arguments I think the way he goes about it is pathetic.  Perhaps I haven't heard him enough but when I have  he's seemed all fur coat and no knickers.

[RobTheRover]

I like him.  He's a cage rattler and you need them sometimes.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I can't abide the Kitson.

Typical of the "we can do it" generation. All flash and front and pose and no f***ing content.

Unless you are a genuine revolutionary, prepared to go in with guns against guns, you change f*** all by abdicating from the system, poncing about making a big statement about how radical you are and gathering thousands of "likes". All you do, by abdicating from the existing system, is to make it easier for those you dislike to keep on running it.

If you want to change society, organise a mass political movement to win at the polls or pick up a f***ing gun. 

[BobG]

You know as well I do BIlly that neither of the two options you are willing to allow will change anything in this bloody country. They never have and there's sod all indication they ever will. Right back to the Peasants Revolt and Wat Tyler, through Chartism, Communism and countless more besides, mass revolutonary movements have failed in their avowed purpose. Tbey have changed things, of course they have, but none of them ever achieved what they set out to achieve. Not even the Roundheads did that - yet they even took over the government. 

The only way change in this country comes about is through:

1) external pressures - primarily war and/or economic pressure or its threat (e.g Suez)
2) internal pressures - plenty of those around and always has been.  But they're not revolutionary. They're incremental. Even socialist governments have almost always worked that way. The creation of the NHS is about the only succesful revolutionary act in this country in 150 years or more.

Suffrage didn't arrive in the 19th and 20th centuries because of a 'mass political movement'. It arrived as the result of 50 years of slowly growing pressure. And where did that pressure come from? Activists who shouted. who made a noise, who wanted to show the pain and the suffering to them that had the power.

So Russell Brand is a hero as far as I'm concerned. He can have as many likes as he wants. I don't give a rats arse. He is making people aware of a problem in our society. He won't fix the problem. How could he? But he is doing the only thing that ever brings about change in this country. He is publicising something that is wrong.  Don't you remember 'Cathy Come Home'? He's a modernised version. I think we all owe him a debt of gratitude for opening our eyes to something we have ALL allowed to go on for far too long.

Russell Brand has done more than you ever willl Billy, or me, to bring to an end a shameful blot in our society. So before you chuck any more stones around, think on what you can do too.

BobG

[IC1967]

Let's get one thing straight. Russell Brand is a complete w**ker. It's alright for this multi millionaire to pontificate about things safe in the knowledge that whatever happens he will be alright because he is super wealthy.

What the country needs is the likes of me and Billy that are passionate about our cause. Me and Billy need to go head to head on prime time telly to sort out the left versus right argument. Winner takes all.

I'd be very confident I'd win. If I lost I'd leave the country. One thing I know is that Billy would be far more of a challenge than Mr Brand.

[BobG]

Who cares what you think? Hardly a single person on here cares what you write. It simply gives most folk a good laugh. As for you on tv, ha ha ha!! I have been. Several times. I don't recall ever seeing you on there. You have no idea what would hit you.

BobG

[IC1967]

Who cares what you think? Hardly a single person on here cares what you write. It simply gives most folk a good laugh. As for you on tv, ha ha ha!! I have been. Several times. I don't recall ever seeing you on there. You have no idea what would hit you.

BobG

Telly would hold no concerns for me. You've obviously been very intimidated by the experience. No wonder you failed to make an impact. 10 minutes on telly and I reckon I could change the world.

[Muttley]

Those Betterware rounds are a tough gig and ample preparation for a grilling on prime-time TV!

[Dare to dream!]

I watch his YouTube videos the trews most days and don't agree with everything he says but he's does make some good points. I don't think he has or is claiming to have the answer but he is just using his profile to make people aware of some issues he doesn't feel are right, the new era estate campaign for example.

[IC1967]

I really can't be doing with someone who has a stylist to straighten his chest hairs. He is a complete berk. He's bound to say some things that people agree with its just that 95% of what he says is gibberish.

There is no 2 ways about it. Capitalism is far and away the best system for our times. It is the only system capable of lifting billions out of poverty. Just look at what's happened in China once they started embracing capitalism.

You can stick socialism where the sun don't shine.

[coventryrover]

Well I like him.

Celeb tries to do good shocker and everyone knocks him.  What a surprise

[Bentley Bullet]

Well I like him.

Celeb tries to do good shocker and everyone knocks him.  What a surprise

I was just saying the same to Louis Tomlinson the other day.

[Dagenham Rover]

I've decided I like him .....just because Mick can't stand him 

[MachoMadness]

Don't agree with absolutely everything he writes but then you're not going to, and he's not asking you to. All he's doing is making people listen and make their own minds up on issues they otherwise wouldn't have been aware of. The guy is genuinely trying to make the world a better place, Google the work he's done for the homeless and recovering drug addicts for more on that. It's genuine, day-to-day stuff that makes a difference to real people, not Band Aid shit which is more about getting the celebrities' faces out there.

[Bentley Bullet]

Brand aid?

[IC1967]

I've decided I like him .....just because Mick can't stand him 

No offence but with that kind of logic you sound just like most Labour voters in that they vote Labour because that's what their mums and dads did. you need to engage your brain a bit more.

For example, let me give you one good reason why no-one should vote Labour. Every Labour government bar none, has always left office with unemployment higher then when they took office. The Tories, despite being left the worst economic situation in many decades have created more jobs than the rest of the EU put together.

For me that would be a total clincher in not voting Labour. There are many others but that one on it's own should be reason enough not to vote Labour.

Why can't you lefties see why voting Labour is such an idiotic thing to do?

[Dagenham Rover]

I've decided I like him .....just because Mick can't stand him 

No offence but with that kind of logic you sound just like most Labour voters in that they vote Labour because that's what their mums and dads did. you need to engage your brain a bit more.

For example, let me give you one good reason why no-one should vote Labour. Every Labour government bar none, has always left office with unemployment higher then when they took office. The Tories, despite being left the worst economic situation in many decades have created more jobs than the rest of the EU put together.

For me that would be a total clincher in not voting Labour. There are many others but that one on it's own should be reason enough not to vote Labour.

Why can't you lefties see why voting Labour is such an idiotic thing to do?

Mick smiley face at the end = humourous/sarky type comment

[IC1967]

I've decided I like him .....just because Mick can't stand him 

No offence but with that kind of logic you sound just like most Labour voters in that they vote Labour because that's what their mums and dads did. you need to engage your brain a bit more.

For example, let me give you one good reason why no-one should vote Labour. Every Labour government bar none, has always left office with unemployment higher then when they took office. The Tories, despite being left the worst economic situation in many decades have created more jobs than the rest of the EU put together.

For me that would be a total clincher in not voting Labour. There are many others but that one on it's own should be reason enough not to vote Labour.

Why can't you lefties see why voting Labour is such an idiotic thing to do?

Mick smiley face at the end = humourous/sarky type comment

I know. I apologise abjectly for taking your comment too seriously. I don't want to end up all serious like Billy.

[Dagenham Rover]

I've decided I like him .....just because Mick can't stand him 

No offence but with that kind of logic you sound just like most Labour voters in that they vote Labour because that's what their mums and dads did. you need to engage your brain a bit more.

For example, let me give you one good reason why no-one should vote Labour. Every Labour government bar none, has always left office with unemployment higher then when they took office. The Tories, despite being left the worst economic situation in many decades have created more jobs than the rest of the EU put together.

For me that would be a total clincher in not voting Labour. There are many others but that one on it's own should be reason enough not to vote Labour.

Why can't you lefties see why voting Labour is such an idiotic thing to do?

Mick smiley face at the end = humourous/sarky type comment

I know. I apologise abjectly for taking your comment too seriously. I don't want to end up all serious like Billy.

   

[BillyStubbsTears]

Mick

You're safe spadger. Hell will freeze over and you'll get a prediction right before you come close to being like me.

[GazLaz]

You can't dislike him, it's impossible. He makes a lot of good points on a lot of different subjects. He is actually trying to help people, no harm in that.

[Savvy]

Iike Andrew Sachs? The man is a grade A tosser!

[wilts rover]

Cant dislike him? I certainly find it hard to like him with his arrogant self-publicity, he's a rich man's Mark Thomas.