Russell Brand v The Sun
Discussion
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
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
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.
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.
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)? 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
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
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.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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh feck offGo sell you car and give the profits to poor people
Never mind.. a spoonful of denial should help that medicine go down.
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?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?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.
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.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
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