This Brand Miliband interview

[minestrone]

From the little bits that I have seen Miliband looks unsettled, very awkward, can't deal with Brand's invasion of his personal space, constantly leaning back.

I dread to think what Putin will do to him.

[MicrosoftBob]

From the little bits that I have seen Miliband looks unsettled, very awkward, can't deal with Brand's invasion of his personal space, constantly leaning back.

I dread to think what Putin will do to him.

It's more likely to be Len McCluskey, I don't think Putin would be arsed to get off his bear to give Milliband a shafting

[unixman]

Good grief. Champagne socialist talks to champagne pretendy-marxist.

[MercladUK]

whereas David "Tony Blair Clone" Cameron stage manages his meetings appearances making veiled promises under the guise of MASSIVE welfare cuts.

I don't like Brand, in fact I detest him, but I admire Milliband for not taking the easy stage managed option

[FatLazyContractor]

Brand's CV

A "nice" summary from DailyFail:

- In 2001, Russell Brand was arrested and charged with criminal damage and indecent exposure when he stripped naked while covering May Day protests for music station MTV.

- The day after 9/11, Brand turned up for work at MTV dressed as Osama bin Laden. He was sacked two days later.

- In 2002 he was dismissed from the Xfm radio station after he read pornographic material on air on a Sunday afternoon show.

- In 2008, Brand and friend Jonathan Ross left vile messages on the answerphone of the elderly Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.

- The presenters then imagined Mr Sachs killing himself. Brand said: 'The main news again. Manuel Andrew Sachs hung himself today.' The BBC was later fined £150,000 by Ofcom.

- During a performance at the Royal and Derngate Theatre in Northampton in July 2008, he wasted police time with a hoax call, claiming he had spotted a man responsible for a series of assaults. No charges were brought after he apologised.

- In June 2013 Fox TV axed his late-night talk show, Brand X, after he was criticised by viewers for a series of tasteless jokes, including a claim that Princess Diana took cocaine.

- On Lady Thatcher, he wrote in the Guardian: 'Her death must be sad for the handful of people she was nice to and the rich people who got richer under her stewardship. It isn't sad for anyone else.'

- In October 2013, he was kicked out of an awards ceremony after making Nazi jibes about the sponsor, the German fashion company Hugo Boss. He placed a finger under his nose and goose-stepped.

- Also in 2013 he described how, for a television programme, he once brought 'a man to the point of orgasm in a public bathroom'. He said the stated purpose was to 'see if that makes me gay'.

- Despite apparently considering a run for London Mayor, he has urged his young followers not to take part in elections. He said: 'Don't bother voting. We know it's not going to make any difference.'

- He wants more social housing – while living in a £2million flat whose owners are based in a tax haven – but says of paying taxes: 'Take away corporate power. Don't cooperate. Organise, don't pay your mortgages, don't pay your taxes.'

- In his 2014 book Revolution, he attacked the notion that voting is commensurate with freedom, saying: 'It p***** me off. It makes me want to get together a gang of Toxteth's finest, of Broadwater Farm's most deadly, Belfast's most up for it, and light up the Westminster sky.'

- The same book contained jokes about beheading Prince George with a 'Fisher Price guillotine'.

- On told BBC2's Newsnight he was 'open-minded' as to whether the US government was behind the 9/11 attacks. He claimed there was an 'interesting relationship' between the families of former US president George Bush and Bin Laden.

- Despite its assiduous courting of Brand, he has also turned on the BBC. He said that, by reporting the suspected terrorist murder of a soldier stood by a war memorial in Ottawa, Canada, the Corporation was trying to 'build an anti-Islamic narrative.'

- On his years as a heroin addict, he says: 'It doesn't make a difference to me. The money, the fame, the power, the sex, the women – none of it. I'd rather be a drug addict.'

- At the start of this year, he launched a foul-mouthed attack on the same Labour Party now courting him, calling Ed Balls a 'clicky-wristed snidey c***' on a Channel 4 comedy show. Balls called him a 'pound shop Ben Elton'.

- He has blamed Britain's 'corrupt' society for the radicalisation of Islamic State fanatic Jihadi John, claiming that Mohammed Emwazi must have felt 'loneliness' and 'alienation'.

- In the same rant, he said that even if Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined the Islamic State, he would still have made 'more corrupt political alliances' – a reference to the Tory and Lib Dem coalition.

[GlenW]

I don't support violence but I'd love to slap that twat daft.

[FatLazyContractor]

I don't support violence but I'd love to slap that twat daft.

Which one? There are two in there!

[GlenW]

Which one? There are two in there!

Brand, the other one is too hopeless to care about.

[FatLazyContractor]

One for MF

[Ticktock]

I thought that Russell Brand thought of himself as some sort of intellectual wordsmith?

The presenters then imagined Mr Sachs killing himself. Brand said: 'The main news again. Manuel Andrew Sachs hung himself today.' The BBC was later fined £150,000 by Ofcom.

Hanged. Unless you're illiterate.