Comedian Russell Brand has given one of his most candid interviews, where he admits why he's never voted and never will and called for a revolution to solve the world's problems which sent social media into a spin.
Brand sat down with the BBC’s “Newsnight” to
discuss his temporary position as the guest editor of the New Statesman
magazine. The conversation began with Jeremy Paxman, a journalist known
for his combative and aggressive tone, pressing Brand on why the public
should take his opinion seriously when considering the fact that Brand
has never voted.
“I don’t get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people,” Brand said. “I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.”
"I am not that I am not voting out of apathy. I am not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations", he added.
He
also suggested that politicians were only interested in "serving the
needs of corporations" and that an administrative system based on the
"massive redistribution of wealth" should replace the status quo.
When
asked why people should even listen to his viewpoint when he doesn't
vote, Brand said: "I don't get my authority by a pre-existing paradigm
that's quite narrow and only serves a few people."
Paxman asks Brand to describe what his revolution would look like.
“I think what it won’t be like is a huge disparity between rich and poor, where 300 Americans have the same amount of wealth as their 85 million poorest Americans, where there is an exploited underserved underclass being continually ignored, where welfare is slashed while Cameron and Osborne go to court to continue the right of bankers receiving bonuses,” Brand said.
Paxman is unable to derail Brand, who
comments on the newsman’s beard and urges him to grow it until he can
tangle it with his armpit hairs, even when he calls the actor a “very
trivial man.”
Before Paxman could contain Brand, he went
on what could be one of his most in-depth philosophical rants about the
future, and where we are all headed. He then called for a revolution
for change.
"The planet is being destroyed, we are creating an underclass, exploiting poor people all over the world, and the genuine legitimate problems of the world are not being addressed by our political parties."
"There is going to be a revolution, it's totally going to happen. I don't have a flicker of doubt."
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