Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Russell Brand on fire with Paxman - one to watch ...
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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This resinates with so many folk who are completely disillusioned with politics (and the global wealth gap) at every level. Can't stand him as a comedian but I am definitely warming to him.
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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It's history repeating itself though with the far left, great critics, terrible solutionists but I think Labour should be worried, he might become their UKIP ... he's gathering traction fast and he's brighter than most.
It's interesting to see the new opposition (occupy , wiki leaks, Snowdon, Brand, bit coin, Facebook, twitter, riot meme's, deep web, v for Vandetta mask, craftavism and urban art) are all securing the new counter culture on their own terms and not using traditional route to market.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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At the end of the seventies I was in a Department store in Maryland and saw "Counter Culture" in the store directory. So I went looking for it. What would they be selling that reflected the '68 generation and the enormous creative changes which followed?
I followed the signs but kept missing it. So I doubled back following the signs in the opposite direction. Nothing. So I found a member of staff and asked. After getting me to repeat the question a couple of times in different ways - my hard to understand British accent - she pointed wearily at the Counter Culture cafeteria next to where we stood.
To market, to market ... on whose terms?
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Brand channels Oscar wilde - Good one
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Ha, Market 2.0 terms. A profit making Che without a gun but with a bloody good laptop and little sense of national identify and a yearning to upset the old guard by all means technically possible to level hierarchies and old monopolies and old systems of governance and information distribution and control.
Including the council. X
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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The more recent discussion here.
Gotta admire his extraordinary vocabulary and the ease with which it pours out - 'lachrymose sentimentality' is not an everyday insult.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Don't listen to people telling you not to vote!!! That's the bloody problem! We don't vote!
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I disagree, labour are too complacent, they think all they have to do to get back into power is wait a while, they need a challenge from the left and electorally that can't come from anywhere at the moment but here.
A two year freeze of utility bills is not enough, we need state backed nationalised industries in debt to the British citizen to compete with the private ones and the foreign nationalised ones to ensure price monopolies are not being secretly set.
A little Inspiration from China could go a long way right now.
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No, the problem is there is nothing viable with any credibility to vote for. If I don't want sausage and mash and that's what is on offer x5 I won't eat it no matter how much glitter your sprinkle on it.
We are subservient slaves to this un-democratic system (dressed up as democracy).
The affluent, comfortable have nothing to fear but who represents the sizeable underclass, working class, poor, vulnerable? Brand is bang on.
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Permalink Reply by gilly on
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Hey great one to post! Its gone viral on my facebook for sure.... Brand is like a breath of fresh air for me! Interesting times for sure, in America Marianne Williams who wrote the book A Return to Love is also standing as a candidate over there, she has many followers that will be interesting to follow.
Great debate about whether to vote or not to vote, I love your sausage and mash analogy Birdy...(although edible glitter rules ok;)..... I agree its worthless at present there is not one party that stands out for me, neither does the system work.... What do we do in the meantime? Idea's Russell?
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I've voted green all my life, under the current electoral system it's got no where. I think it might be time for unity and to register our votes and then vote 'no' by not voting and create a new opposition to the whole system as Brand is suggesting, yes. No constitutions, no leaders just a multiple headed hydra backed by a new digital age and young generation that will actually become politicised by such an idea for the first time in their life.
Our grandparents died for the right to vote, not the right to have to vote for any old nonsense.
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Just seen this. He's become a much more interesting person over the years and I believe he is utterly sincere in his disgust for self-interested politicians who are determined to do nothing to challenge scandalous levels of inequality and environmental destruction.
For anyone who identifies with his message I would urge you to get involved with Left Unity. We are trying to build exactly the kind of movement that Russell Brand calls for. Our founding conference will take place on November 30th in Central London and in the meantime we are building the local group here in Haringey. Our next organising meeting is next Wednesday evening (30th) in Yayla's restaurant, Green Lanes at 7.15pm. This country is in dire need of a meaningful alternative to the established political parties, and we are determined to build it. Come and get involved!
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