Russell Brand v The Sun

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Mojooo

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12,668 posts

179 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Firstly it doesn't matter what you think about Brand - this is more about the press spouting bks.

So Brand rents and expensive home. The landlords apparently are tax avoiders. Sun says he is a hypocrite.


Not sure how the Sun can draw the conclusion that Brand is a hypocrite unless they can somehow show that he knows that his landlords are tax dodgers (even then he may not be a hypoceite depending on other issues).

Should he go to the press regulator on the basis that they have besmirched his good reputatuon repuattion?


Free press and all that but I don't see how they can justify the healdine unless they know something we don't......





http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30310314

Corpulent Tosser

5,459 posts

244 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Hypocrite, yeah I am OK with that, I hope he tries to sue and it gets thrown out.

Stevanos

700 posts

136 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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I hope he loses, fed up with his incoherent rantings.


pork911

7,086 posts

182 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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as much hate as there is for him, its the sun ffs

greygoose

8,224 posts

194 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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I suppose we should be grateful that there is nothing serious going on in the world which would push any of the Sun's stories off the front page.

dudleybloke

19,717 posts

185 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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He should stick to making Porsche videos.

VeeDubBigBird

440 posts

128 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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The properties that they're campaigning about have almost tripled in value. The Owner's bought it as an investment and are now asking for the average market price, not over the top rent. The rent will remain the same for at least another year possibly longer and that's after further renovations and investment.

Comedian lives in £2million home owned by a firm based in a tax haven.

Pays around £5,000 a month for three-bedroom property in East London.

The hypocrisy is that he accepts his own landlord's indiscretions as acceptable but is now screaming from the hills over this.

pork911

7,086 posts

182 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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VeeDubBigBird said:
The hypocrisy is that he accepts his own landlord's indiscretions as acceptable but is now screaming from the hills over this.
without looking too deeply into a sun headline...the claim seems that he is supporting people in the same boat as him, so i'm not sure where the hypocrisy is(on that)?

McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

203 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Awww feck it

It is a dhead suing a bunch of assholes

At least the lawyers will get rich off both of them

I wouldn't give a fk if all the parties involved vanished in a puff of smoke



And to be frank seeing he is a screaming lefty any money he spends or earns that is more then average should be given to the poor anyway.




And he was st when he was on radio 6

CamMoreRon

1,237 posts

124 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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VeeDubBigBird said:
The properties that they're campaigning about have almost tripled in value. The Owner's bought it as an investment and are now asking for the average market price, not over the top rent. The rent will remain the same for at least another year possibly longer and that's after further renovations and investment.

Comedian lives in £2million home owned by a firm based in a tax haven.

Pays around £5,000 a month for three-bedroom property in East London.

The hypocrisy is that he accepts his own landlord's indiscretions as acceptable but is now screaming from the hills over this.
Yep.. how dare he stand up for people who are being priced out of their homes when he can afford to stay in his! HYPOCRITE.

rolleyes

McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

203 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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CamMoreRon said:
Yep.. how dare he stand up for people who are being priced out of their homes when he can afford to stay in his! HYPOCRITE.

rolleyes
Oh feck off

Go sell you car and give the profits to poor people

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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CamMoreRon said:
VeeDubBigBird said:
The properties that they're campaigning about have almost tripled in value. The Owner's bought it as an investment and are now asking for the average market price, not over the top rent. The rent will remain the same for at least another year possibly longer and that's after further renovations and investment.

Comedian lives in £2million home owned by a firm based in a tax haven.

Pays around £5,000 a month for three-bedroom property in East London.

The hypocrisy is that he accepts his own landlord's indiscretions as acceptable but is now screaming from the hills over this.
Yep.. how dare he stand up for people who are being priced out of their homes when he can afford to stay in his! HYPOCRITE.

rolleyes
the point is that it's people like him who can pay these stupidly high rents that's driving the market up.

I would not mind him so much if he actually had the integrity to actually support a cause for more then 10 seconds infront of a TV camera, all it;s about is getting him as much TV time as possible to feed his addiction.

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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McWigglebum4th said:
Oh feck off

Go sell you car and give the profits to poor people
I think their parents may have something to say about that....

economicpygmy

387 posts

122 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Im sure the landlord involved Brand throughout his/her tax planning. wobble

pork911 said:
as much hate as there is for him, its the sun ffs
yes



Murph7355

37,649 posts

255 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Scuffers said:
the point is that it's people like him who can pay these stupidly high rents that's driving the market up.

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I'm not convinced Mr Brand or his followers are bright enough for that to register.

Nor that he bleats on about the wealth gap whilst striving to rake as much in for himself as he possibly can.

Without vehicles like The Sun, he would be nothing. The column inches here will do his bank balance no end of good, regardless of the result of his legal endeavours. What would be really nice is if a judge threw it out and insisted that both parties pay a million quid to homeless charities for wasting court time.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Murph7355 said:
Scuffers said:
the point is that it's people like him who can pay these stupidly high rents that's driving the market up.

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I'm not convinced Mr Brand or his followers are bright enough for that to register.

Nor that he bleats on about the wealth gap whilst striving to rake as much in for himself as he possibly can.

Without vehicles like The Sun, he would be nothing. The column inches here will do his bank balance no end of good, regardless of the result of his legal endeavours. What would be really nice is if a judge threw it out and insisted that both parties pay a million quid to homeless charities for wasting court time.
Just Brand surely as The Sun isn't wasting Court time, it's Brand taking action. Or at least talking about it at this stage.

CamMoreRon

1,237 posts

124 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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McWigglebum4th said:
CamMoreRon said:
Yep.. how dare he stand up for people who are being priced out of their homes when he can afford to stay in his! HYPOCRITE.

rolleyes
Oh feck off

Go sell you car and give the profits to poor people
N'aww.. is truth a bitter pill to swallow?

Never mind.. a spoonful of denial should help that medicine go down.

CamMoreRon

1,237 posts

124 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Scuffers said:
the point is that it's people like him who can pay these stupidly high rents that's driving the market up.
This isn't Scotland, people aren't out-bidding each other for properties - especially not for rentals. It's the landlords who control rent, not the tenants. The tenants are forced to pay up if they want to live in a house. You seem to be attempting to argue that tenants can always not pay the rent, but what is the alternative? Live in the gutters?

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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CamMoreRon said:
Scuffers said:
the point is that it's people like him who can pay these stupidly high rents that's driving the market up.
This isn't Scotland, people aren't out-bidding each other for properties - especially not for rentals. It's the landlords who control rent, not the tenants. The tenants are forced to pay up if they want to live in a house. You seem to be attempting to argue that tenants can always not pay the rent, but what is the alternative? Live in the gutters?
at the level brands rent is at, yes.

it's called supply and demand, if there are not people that can pay the rent, the houses/flats/etc will remain empty.

what's sadly lacking in this story is actual details of WTF is actually going on, what the rents are, what the plans are, etc etc.


turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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CamMoreRon said:
Scuffers said:
the point is that it's people like him who can pay these stupidly high rents that's driving the market up.
This isn't Scotland, people aren't out-bidding each other for properties - especially not for rentals. It's the landlords who control rent, not the tenants. The tenants are forced to pay up if they want to live in a house.
Brand is forced to pay the price of a house in annual rent, sure.

Record numbers of 'young adults', actually not so young adults, are living with parents into their 30s and 40s, those parents aren't in the gutter.

Living in the gutters - wonderful poor bloody infantry emotive propagandist doggerel.

https://www.gov.uk/emergency-housing-if-homeless