So Russell Brand’s no longer just a comedian, he’s a campaigner. But like him or loathe him at least he makes you think, argues Broughton High School student ROSS COWPER:
Over the past year Russell Brand has become some sort of liberating Jesus for some younger people in particular.
Born 1975 in Gray’s Essex, Russell Brand decided from a relatively early age that to get out of the run down place he lived, he would have to ‘better’ himself by becoming rich, famous or even both.
Russel got his wish by presenting for MTV, but it was his excessive drug use that kept giving him problems in the infancy of his career. In 2008 he resigned from the BBC for a prank call to Andrew Sachs; soon most people were not taking him seriously, and it was’t because of his comedic status.
Over the last year, following his guest editing for the New Statesman, Russell took to a new step in his career and life. He’s changed his opinions: either because he is in a better circumstances, or genuinely thinks that money and fame is not the way out. Following a Jeremy Paxman interview on Newnight, Russell Brand’s words became viral overnight on Twitter.
Russell actively encouraged that, to bring about change, the British people should’t vote. He explained that there must be a “massive redistribution of wealth” and accused ‘big business’ as a major player in the world’s corrupt societies.
Since the release of his book on the 25 October, ‘Revolution’ has unquestionably came under fire from political commentators, reviewers and from some sections some of the public. In his book Russell Brand argues that politicians now have to bend over to the media 24/7, in an attempt to make sure they look desirable with indisputable charisma to become next in line to inherit the idiotic throne of what PM has become.
Over the last decade especially the position has been filled with awkward fake smiling ones, to who try appease the ‘great’ British public that Romanians are taking the biscuit now, and its time for the reclaiming of our land!
Now don’t get me wrong, there are some good politicians out there, but many TV voxpop interviews in town centres show people saying they think all politicians don’t do a good job, or any job for that matter – it seems almost a disease to think that one could actually help you.
It does appear that some at the Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Telegraph do not agree with what Russell says in his book: he has been questioned on his books content – or for the lack of it. It can also be said that many of these political commentators are from higher class backgrounds, and they do have pacts to keep with certain parties after all. So who could blame them, they do have a job to keep!
So with Russell Brand posing different questions, and to this higher classed level of politicians, he may not have the most expanded substance in certain chapters of his book, but he is making a considerable noise.
I think it is the challenging the social norm of the political business-minded elite that are frightened of (especially the commentators). This is precisely why there has been so much noise recently over the matter; not the ‘revolution’ as such, but potential talk of change for poorer people in Britain.
In my opinion the book does contain some fallacies, but it is about learning the horrid inequality and wrongly distribution power of wealth. If anyone can get that through to people by even having to use the word ‘revolution’, then they have done something most politicians can’t.
Britain may be a long way away from the uprising, and the discarding of a golden statue of David Cameron put up by taxpayers money but ripped from it’s foundations by the people. We may be waiting some time …
