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