Maybe you’ve seen this BBC Newsnight interview making the rounds. If you’re anything like me, you probably shrugged it off as another celebrity saying marginally interesting things about politics. If so, you were wrong.
Even if you strongly disagree with Russell Brand’s assertion that we shouldn’t vote, it’s hard not to be amused by the ease with which he bats around hardened journalist Jeremy Paxman. He makes an articulate case that politics in the U.K. and the U.S. are broken and corrupt, and he calls for a greener, fairer system.
A political system “shouldn’t destroy the planet,” he says. “The measures that are currently being taken around climate change are indifferent, will not solve the problem.” He calls for “a socialist, egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, heavy taxation of corporations, and massive responsibility for energy companies and any companies exploiting the environment. I think they should be taxed.”
Watch for yourself:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3YR4CseY9pk]
