Because Brand is a man that says a lot but stands for very little. His only aim is to make himself antiestablishment.
I think you're letting your personal opinion of him as a celebrity shine through a bit here.
You say he says a lot, but stands for very little. I don't know how you can really say that. He hasn't been involved in debates for all that long, in the scheme of things, and yet in that time he has been on multiple campaigns supporting causes. He's clearly passionate about certain aspects of the current 'system'. He's done a lot more to make people talk in that amount of time than some MPs have done in decades.
His aim is anti-establishment. He doesn't claim not to be. I don't think this is reason to write him off though; more just to take him with a pinch of salt.
Everything is popularise nonsense, and his primary followers are people who spend most of their days posting braindead crap on social media. He can't be taken seriously.
You're generalising. I never post on social media, and I quite like listening to what he has to say. I don't agree with it all, and he comes off very unprofessional at times, but why should that prevent him from getting involved?
My friend's dad is also a huge fan, and he's 65.
Politics doesn't need reality pop celebs who dip in and out when it suits them.
You're right, but we don't know whether he'll just disappear some time soon or when his agenda has been met. He's clearly got passion. He already has money, fame and followers - so I'm not sure he's doing it purely for the attention. He has plenty of that already. He really is a rags to riches story (with a lot of bumps along the way), which makes him considerably more normal than many others in parliament who were brought up in a secluded and privileged environment.
It needs committed, knowledgeable, civil individuals, who are free from the straight jacket of a broken party system, who are prepared to serve the interests of those that elected them before themselves or the party, and who are prepared to lead rather than be led
Absolutely. But that's quite a tall order and really a different point isn't it? he isn't wanting to be in government. He's trying to stimulate debate, not become a politician.
Like him or not, he's a character that some areas of society like and I think they're glad that he's engaging in matters on their behalf that no one else is doing. He's doing more than a lot more of us 'arm chair politicians' who think we can do better, but never try.
