r/LabourUK • u/Half_A_ Labour Member • 2d ago

Russell Brand charged with rape

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0457d02e9go
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u/bamfg New User 2d ago

how does this concern the labour party?

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u/Spentworth Looking for reasons to vote Labour 2d ago

10-15 years ago he was the darling of the trendy left. He was certainly the most prominent leftist I knew of when I was a teenager, which is kind of tragic 

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u/JumpySimple7793 Labour Member 2d ago

I know it's easy to say now, but I always hated his hollow "down with the man" faux-anarchist BS

Didn't surprise me his values don't even go skin deep

Hope he just gets locked up and we never have to hear about him again

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u/Prince_John Ex-Labour member 2d ago

He did come out with the odd pithy thing that has stuck with me. I paraphrase, but something like:

"When I was poor and talked about inequality, they told me it was the politics of envy."
"When I was rich and talked about inequality, they told me I was a hypocrite."
"I'm beginning to think they just don't like talking about inequality."

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u/JumpySimple7793 Labour Member 2d ago

Broken clock I suppose

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u/onlygodcankillme left-wing ideologue 2d ago edited 2d ago

Personally, I just always found him to be an annoying, overly verbose, cunt.

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u/Toastie-Postie Swing Voter 2d ago

I remember finding him funny on shows years ago as I assumed that he was playing an over the top character before discovering that he really was that stupid. He was like the left wing version of Al Murray before switching to the right as it's easier to build a cult that way.