Vice, “Russell Brand’s Call for Peaceful Revolution Is Effortlessly Moronic,” June 23, 2014

Russell Brand’s Call for Peaceful Revolution Is Effortlessly Moronic
Natasha Lennard, Vice, June 23, 2014

Russell Brand is not a total idiot. The comedian and would-be revolutionary vanguardist has said a number of not-so-stupid things in the midst of his verbose political rantings. Speaking on Saturday in front of a crowd of 50,000 at a London rally against UK austerity measures, Brand gestured to the Houses of Parliament and rightly noted, “The people of this building generally speaking do not represent us, they represent their friends in big business.”

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