Ed Miliband has been Ridiculed for his Attempt to "cosy up to" R.Brand

[arista]

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[The Buzzfeed website said: “Ed Miliband seems to have adopted a weird cockney accent so he can talk to Russell Brand.”]

[Toy Soldier]

Know what jumped out at me more than anything else in those headlines? Nothing g to do with Brand or Miliband... but the DM saying "ruling us".

Ruling us. The DM thinks of the prime minister as a "ruler". Which just confirms everything I already know about the Daily Mail.

[Toy Soldier]

To clarify; the prime minister is supposed to be a public servant. He is supposed to work for us. He is not supposed to be our emperor.

Supposed to be.

!

[Mystic Mock]

Know what jumped out at me more than anything else in those headlines? Nothing g to do with Brand or Miliband... but the DM saying "ruling us".

Ruling us. The DM thinks of the prime minister as a "ruler". Which just confirms everything I already know about the Daily Mail.

I thought that was odd actually but I didn't wanna be the first to say it in case it looked like I was picking on them.:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

7FdbH4rN9b4


"you gotta"

:facepalm:

[arista]

To clarify; the prime minister is supposed to be a public servant. He is supposed to work for us. He is not supposed to be our emperor.

Supposed to be.

!

Yes but can Order things that make
Hard Working People
get angry and leave the UK

[arista]

7FdbH4rN9b4


"you gotta"

:facepalm:


Fecking Ed will make up anything

At Least Russell is talking about his Film and Book

[MB.]

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(also, "Orville an orphan"? Really?)

[Kazanne]

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(also, "Orville an orphan"? Really?)

:joker: @ the straw clutching,what is this supposed to prove ? and what has it got to do with the election campaign:hehe:

[MB.]

:joker: @ the straw clutching,what is this supposed to prove ? and what has it got to do with the election campaign:hehe:

Because David Cameron sniffed that he didn't have the time to "hang out" with Russell Brand but has all the time in the world to "hang out" with people like Katie Hopkins - who I'm sure does wonders for his campaign...

[GypsyGoth]

I really thought Ed would come across as a buffoon during this election, but he hasn't. And he actually does seem like a nice guy, his passion and intelligence have helped him shrug off that wallace & grommit perception of him. However I feel David Cameron is a better leader and thus that makes a better prime minister.

[Kazanne]

Because David Cameron sniffed that he didn't have the time to "hang out" with Russell Brand but has all the time in the world to "hang out" with people like Katie Hopkins - who I'm sure does wonders for his campaign...

Really? just how old is this picture ? and if it's a function you cant help but mix,he is hardly using it as a campaign boost otherwise this would have been front page news too.

[arista]

Really? just how old is this picture ? and if it's a function you cant help but mix,he is hardly using it as a campaign boost otherwise this would have been front page news too.


Yes its not in Any
News today

[Kazanne]

Yes its not in Any
News today

I don't see the comparison really,it just turns a thread about Milliband off kilter,brand is encouraging people NOT to vote which is really not good for an election.:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

:joker: @ the straw clutching,what is this supposed to prove ? and what has it got to do with the election campaign:hehe:

It was A Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards

last November

:idc:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Lol at Brand highlighting the problem with multinational companies really acting outwith Governments (and tax) and Miliband saying "yes I agree and we will do something against it" and then saying "but of course we cant really as they dont operate in our country"

doh!

[Kazanne]

Lol at Brand highlighting the problem with multinational companies really acting outwith Governments (and tax) and Miliband saying "yes I agree and we will do something against it" and then saying "but of course we cant really as they dont operate in our country"

doh!

:joker: two jokers together

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[waterhog]

Lol at Brand highlighting the problem with multinational companies really acting outwith Governments (and tax) and Miliband saying "yes I agree and we will do something against it" and then saying "but of course we cant really as they dont operate in our country"

doh!

we have all these clever people in the world and there seems no way to solve this problem - its unbelievable.

shame on those who avoid tax

[Crimson Dynamo]

we have all these clever people in the world and there seems no way to solve this problem - its unbelievable.

shame on those who avoid tax

hog

business will always be ahead of governments

one of life's great lessons is the realisation that governments actually have very little say in the running of the world

[joeysteele]

..... and Ed Miliband will do what he has with all the other unjustified vile ridicule and nonsense the Conservative supporting press have thrown at him and his family for ages now.
He will ignore it and ride above it.

Which makes the voters warm that bit more to him as he gets on with the issues.
Honestly, I think,even had I been a Conservative supporter in this election, I would have been turned off voting for them due to this press bias.

Love or hate him, Russell Brand has likely millions of younger followers who do watch his every move and take notice of him, quite frankly the fact he even spoke to Ed Miliband and that David Cameron indicated he would have nothing to do with him, may speak volumes to all those followers of his.

It will probably however change nothing at all but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[Kizzy]

It's a shrewd move Brand has 50 thousand twitter followers, his youtube channel videos are viewed by over a million, if Russel can see Ed as a progressive and productive PM and endorse him then that will translate into voters.
Dave has his tory HQ engineered letters and his hustings with invited wristband identifiable stooges so he's not really in any position to criticise, all his interviews are practically scripted.

[Crimson Dynamo]

It's a shrewd move Brand has 50 thousand twitter followers, his youtube channel videos are viewed by over a million, if Russel can see Ed as a progressive and productive PM and endorse him then that will translate into voters.
Dave has his tory HQ engineered letters and his hustings with invited wristband identifiable stooges so he's not really in any position to criticise, all his interviews are practically scripted.

he has 9.56 million followers on twitter:shocked:

[Kizzy]

he has 9.56 million followers on twitter:shocked:

Even better... :smug:

[kirklancaster]

he has 9.56 million followers on twitter:shocked:

Then Twit -ter is very well named. :facepalm:

[kirklancaster]

:joker: two jokers together

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[bots]

We will stamp out this terrible crime where business avoids tax ... ah but wait, sorry we can't do anything really.

This is the problem with the EU. People have been moaning about Ireland for years, its in the EU yet its allowed to change its tax rates to compete unfairly in what is supposed to be a level playing field. They ran in to serious financial difficulty, and who was the first country to bail them out - the UK, no strings attached.

[Livia]

Couldn't stop laughing when I saw this clip. SO looking forward to the full interview. Ed attempting the glottal stop in order to be more relevant. I'm surprised Brand could keep a straight face.

[Niamh.]

what was wrong with the video?

[MTVN]

It's a shrewd move Brand has 50 thousand twitter followers, his youtube channel videos are viewed by over a million, if Russel can see Ed as a progressive and productive PM and endorse him then that will translate into voters.
Dave has his tory HQ engineered letters and his hustings with invited wristband identifiable stooges so he's not really in any position to criticise, all his interviews are practically scripted.

Yes it would be great for Brand to tell his followers to vote for Miliband now that the deadline to register to vote has passed and Brand has spent the last two years telling them all not to bother voting :fan:

[kirklancaster]

Yes it would be great for Brand to tell his followers to vote for Miliband now that the deadline to register to vote has passed and Brand has spent the last two years telling them all not to bother voting :fan:

:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

what was wrong with the video?

the clip ed was pretending to be all street and saying gotta but without using the letter T

it was so uncomfortable, the body language

:omgno:

[Niamh.]

the clip ed was pretending to be all street and saying gotta but without using the letter T

it was so uncomfortable, the body language

:omgno:

I don't really know what way he talks normally but it seemed alright to me :laugh:

[Northern Monkey]

I honestly think Milliband will cost Labour this Election.He's kind of embarrassing,I can't see many people taking him seriously and i think most of Labours votes will be the life time voters who vote Labour whatever leader they have.I know we should vote for policies but alot of people will look at Milliband and be put off by him and his cartoon hand gestures and speech impediment.I just can't see him attracting new voters in their masses.He imo is doing more harm than good.I think Andy Burnham or Ed Balls would be taken more seriously and do better as far as this election.Imo.

[arista]

I honestly think Milliband will cost Labour this Election.He's kind of embarrassing,I can't see many people taking him seriously and i think most of Labours votes will be the life time voters who vote Labour whatever leader they have.I know we should vote for policies but alot of people will look at Milliband and be put off by him and his cartoon hand gestures and speech impediment.I just can't see him attracting new voters in their masses.He imo is doing more harm than good.I think Andy Burnham or Ed Balls would be taken more seriously and do better as far as this election.Imo.



Yes Very Much So

[Crimson Dynamo]

I honestly think Milliband will cost Labour this Election.He's kind of embarrassing,I can't see many people taking him seriously and i think most of Labours votes will be the life time voters who vote Labour whatever leader they have.I know we should vote for policies but alot of people will look at Milliband and be put off by him and his cartoon hand gestures and speech impediment.I just can't see him attracting new voters in their masses.He imo is doing more harm than good.I think Andy Burnham or Ed Balls would be taken more seriously and do better as far as this election.Imo.

Andy Burnham is so, so much better

[Vanessa]

Can he get any more cringey? :facepalm:

[Livia]

Can he get any more cringey? :facepalm:

I keep wondering that. And then he does something that reaches a new low...

[Kazanne]

he has 9.56 million followers on twitter:shocked:

I suppose Ed has to get his votes from somewhere,so getting down with Brands fans will do it:hehe:

[Kazanne]

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:joker::joker:

[Kizzy]

Yes it would be great for Brand to tell his followers to vote for Miliband now that the deadline to register to vote has passed and Brand has spent the last two years telling them all not to bother voting :fan:

Are you presuming that all brands fans aren't already registered to vote? I'm a brand fan, I'm registered to vote.... :smug:

[joeysteele]

Well at least Ed Miliband is perhaps trying to find out why people don't vote and what can be done to help persuade them to.
If you don't talk to those who don't,nothing will ever be learned.

I could just see the slating going on, had Ed Miliband actually gone to see Brand before the deadline to register to vote was passed.
As it is he went after it has passed,a good move indeed.
Ed Miliband also already knows he has a fair amount of support from younger voters anyway, as opposed to the Conservatives who are losing the younger voters from the polling bigtime.

Also too,from younger people today, who may or may not vote, that we came across,David Cameron has done himself no favours at all virtually describing Brand as irrelevant.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Well at least Ed Miliband is perhaps trying to find out why people don't vote and what can be done to help persuade them to.
If you don't talk to those who don't,nothing will ever be learned.

I could just see the slating going on, had Ed Miliband actually gone to see Brand before the deadline to register to vote was passed.
As it is he went after it has passed,a good move indeed.
Ed Miliband also already knows he has a fair amount of support from younger voters anyway, as opposed to the Conservatives who are losing the younger voters from the polling bigtime.

Also too,from younger people today, who may or may not vote, that we came across,David Cameron has done himself no favours at all virtually describing Brand as irrelevant.

get real joey it was a cheap political stunt that seems to have largely backfired

meanwhile DC was on Jeremy Vine today (the largest radio station in the UK) and was excellent

[empire]

well with two rich champagne socialists, in the same room, what do you expect, miliband and brand are the two biggest snakes I have every seen on tv.

[Crimson Dynamo]

brand is 40

:umm2:

[kirklancaster]

brand is 40

:umm2:

Time he acted his age.

[Kizzy]

Time he got all politically and socially aware.....oh wait.

[joeysteele]

what was wrong with the video?

There's nothing wrong with it Niamh at all, I agree.

[joeysteele]

get real joey it was a cheap political stunt that seems to have largely backfired

meanwhile DC was on Jeremy Vine today (the largest radio station in the UK) and was excellent

When you were to ever balance your views you can then justifiably tell others to get real.

I am never likely to agree with you anyway so I really cannot get why you even respond to any post I make.

I never even actually bothered to read your post until you responded to one of mine with your usual put down too that I have come to expect all the time from you.
Which is why I largely ignore your posts.

[Kizzy]

It makes it even sweeter that it didn't backfire though Joey :D
Anyone who thinks that Daves interviews aren't cleverly scripted spin needs to get real.

[Crimson Dynamo]

When you were to ever balance your views you can then justifiably tell others to get real.

I am never likely to agree with you anyway so I really cannot get why you even respond to any post I make.

I never even actually bothered to read your post until you responded to one of mine with your usual put down too that I have come to expect all the time from you.
Which is why I largely ignore your posts.

yes joey, just you read your fanmail

that is sure to get you elected in the future..

:idc:

[joeysteele]

It makes it even sweeter that it didn't backfire though Joey :D
Anyone who thinks that Daves interviews aren't cleverly scripted spin needs to get real.

I am sure it hasn't backfired Kizzy, it is not what I have heard on the streets and doorsteps today.

What I have found, are many people very suspiciously wondering why it is that were David Cameron to win on May 7th, he would actually 'need' to bring in a law to make him keep to his word.

I found far more negatives as to that with only very few negatives indeed as to Ed Miliband's visit and chat to Russell Brand.

[billy123]

I love the bitter reaction that this has provoked from the right wing press they were so desperate to discredit the interview because in the past they have held a lot of power with political partys having to cosy up to them to ensure election storys are spun in their favour.
The Brand Milliband interview has come about as a product of Social media and the internet and takes the press out of the equation weakening the stranglehold and power the rich media tycoons can wield in trying to influence the outcome of an election.
They are spitting chips and i love it.
Whether by accident or intention the interview has gone down really well with the majority of people.

[Kizzy]

I would have loved it seeing as he had a free reign to be a little freer with his opinion, he might have pushed it and been a tad more controversial but it's too risky I guess, can't blow it now :D

[Crimson Dynamo]

here for the tory landslide next week.

[joeysteele]

yes joey, just you read your fanmail

that is sure to get you elected in the future..

:idc:

Really just you avoid me please and kindly keep your sarcasm to yourself too. What I do or intend to do in life is nothing at all to do with you.

I am not interested in fanmail.
I can get on with near everyone but what I see as false humour and sarcasm are things I avoid like the plague and the people who do it too.

I actually couldn't care one tiny jot as to whether you consider me electable material or not,in fact your opinions, just as mine as clearly are to you, are not in the slightest or the remotest interest to me.

[joeysteele]

I love the bitter reaction that this has provoked from the right wing press they were so desperate to discredit the interview because in the past they have held a lot of power with political partys having to cosy up to them to ensure election storys are spun in their favour.
The Brand Milliband interview has come about as a product of Social media and the internet and takes the press out of the equation weakening the stranglehold and power the rich media tycoons can wield in trying to influence the outcome of an election.
They are spitting chips and i love it.
Whether by accident or intention the interview has gone down really well with the majority of people.



It has indeed bobnot.
Really good points you mention too.