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Originally Posted by Stu

I didn't find it that hard to understand him.

He favors a resource based, socialist leaning economy the strives to distribute the wealth of nations more equally than the current system which would require more compassion and help for the underprivileged and working classes and less for the corporations who he sees as being the unfair benefactors of endless second chances, political bias and monetary bailouts.

In addition he adheres to conservationist principals of protecting the planet and using what it has to offer us wisely.

He sees the current political paradigm as being unhelpful background periphery that needs to be done away with altogether as all the current mainstream choices seem to exist more or less to propagate the currently existing, defunct cultural narrative. To that extent he promotes not apathy but non participation in the current system in an effort to bring about a brand new one that would favor his principals more - principals most sane people would agree with. A more cooperative, less heavy handed government that exists more or less as administrators of simple spiritual beliefs and wealth and resource distributors.

So plenty of ideas. I think he espouses his admittedly ambitious views with great clarity. What you are hinting at and what Paxman seemed to be looking forward to was specifics on the revolution. This I find confusing. Should Brand have given a step by step breakdown of the global overhaul plans that included prospective party names and a time to meet in Trafalgar square to blaze a few fatties and rock the V masks?

I'm not trying to be facetious here - well I kind of am - I'm just genuinely curious. I see this trend all the time. Any time someone from outside the political paradigm looks in with suggestions they are met with fierce criticism that stems from the innocuous but still pointless "well you've never done politics yourself" to "what are you cracking on about mate with your daft hair and naive ideals, we have real plans here - look, we've typed them out and everything it's all in our manifesto!".

Like I said I believe one of the main things impeding this revolution from occurring is the thought that a revolution is in and of itself naive, unspecific and cannot occur.


There is your party name, for starters.

I mean this in the best possible way, but I just don't have the energy to read and respond to your post properly

He doesn't really give any actual answers to any of Paxman's questions though. He says that he thinks the system is broken. He makes a good point that the system keeps the oppressed oppressed and the elites elitist. Paxman wanted to know what Brand thought should be done about it, and he responded by repeating himself for 10 minutes, he didn't actually answer the question. I wasn't expecting a 5 point plan with diagrams and flip charts, but a simple overview of what he would do if he was able to reconstruct the political system in the country would have sufficed. I'm sure everyone reading this thread could give suggestions on what they would do if they could fix all the problems they see with the country (e.g. change the benefits system, be more environmentally friendly, free sex for everybody!!!... etc) but Brand went round in circles because he was being backed into a corner for once.

I don't take any issue with him taking an interest in politics, I'd much rather our celebrities, the people that so many of us look up to, were engaging, witty, interesting individuals like Russell Brand, I just wish he had more to say on the matter, that's all. I've seen this be posted across social media with people praising him for his words, but he doesn't even say all that much about anything, people are, as usual, taken in by his way with words rather than the meaning of his words. That's all.

The problem with wanting a revolution is that there needs to be an end goal. That's why there hasn't been one (yet) - people don't like the system as it is but nobody has any better, practical suggestions that aren't "yeah, **** the Tories!" or tutting about how terrible they are. People en masse don't know what they want, they just know what they don't want, and that's why there is no revolution in this country (yet).