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NeilParkin
2 years ago

Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse” 

Character assassination 101, with the requisite 20 years between the incidents and the complaint being made. Who would have thought…?

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Hope he’s got a good lawyer as that’s defamation. He needs to sue the arses off them. And are these even real people? Will identities be revealed I wonder? Odd how nobody bothered to come forward 5 years ago isn’t it? I guess they weren’t sufficiently traumatized then. It’s all in the timing…

Jon Smith
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You’ve changed your feminist tune…

He might have the best lawyers in the land but Brand is finished, in this feminised world he will be jailed for these allegations, he doesn’t stand a chance the decisions have already been made

Freddy Boy
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Smith

Tommy Robinson has got the T shirt for State persecution ! Brand has entered that world now , let’s hope he’s mentally tough enough! The good thing is that by making this programme the filthy Chunts pulling the strings have highlighted to more people what Russell has been saying they he could have done on his pod casts !!!

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

It’s also a massive bonus that he’s got huge support from his very large following plus lots of money to take these people to the cleaners. It wouldn’t be the first time a newspaper has been successfully sued. Not sure about the history of suing TV programmes off the top of my head. I think this will backfire actually and just get Brand more support and more people seeing right through this incredibly transparent and orchestrated, high-profile charade. He’ll come out on top, I’m confident of that. No sane people trust authority or MSM any more.

Freddy Boy
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

👍

ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Smith

…you can’t be jailed for allegations…there usually has to be a court case first!?
….all there is at the moment..is allegations from unknown, unidentified people.

What we essentially have is a trial by the Media, without any concrete facts at all….

The reason people are wary is because this isn’t how people who have been really wronged act…they don’t wait for years until a television programme or newspaper tracks them down….then suddenly want to talk about it..and that’s all it is at the moment, talk……

Amtrup
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

I get the impression that he went through something of a breakdown, completely rethought his way of life, “got clean” etc, and now genuinely cares about being a “good” person since his manic celebrity years, and that this programme is in fact aimed at him, rather than his subscribers/supporters, because they may be counting on his feeling guilt/remorse, even horror, at hearing so many public accusations of abuse about incidents he may well have genuinely ( or optimistically ) perceived/believed to be consensual, and may now feel called to see differently, apologise for, even admit culpability, etc, because he has, since his breakdown become more sensitive to other people, etc, in a way which even if it didn’t lead to his being taken to court might trigger a second breakdown and/or return to drugs. They/tptb may think that they have more chance of bringing him down via his mental health than via his supporters, who they might realise are perhaps even more likely to stand up for/by him in face of attack by the establishment. ie destabilise/deactivate him by making him look at things he once did obliviously but would now not do.

Not saying I necessarily believe the stories.

WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

My comment to NeilParkin above relates. Sometimes it takes decades for people to report historical abuse so timing is highly variable – from a few years to decades later in some cases. That in itself is not the issue here, although the fact that all 4 chose a time when Brand is really getting under the skin of the Establishment does raise some questions. If these claims are true, the issue is why these women didn’t report the abuse through the proper channels first rather than to the press. Who is orchestrating it, who is paying for it?

NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

I wouldn’t deny that some people never report or report much later that an offence may have been committed, but you have answered your own question in timing and circumstances. I look forward to seeing this level of scrutiny on the passenger lists of Epstein flights.

WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Exactamundo.

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

I agree and also with Jacqui here. I personally doubt very much that any of these ‘victims’ are legit because, as you say, why didn’t they go to the police first? Why are they all suddenly crawling out of the woodwork in lockstep now? It hardly screams ”authentic” to me. We weren’t born yesterday and we know the answer. The intention is to chuck mud and see how much sticks. We’ve all seen Brand’s following grow over the last few years. Whether you like him or not he asks the pertinent questions that are going to ruffle a fair amount of feathers and he’s responsible for red-pilling a lot of people so that’s going to get him unwanted attention from the elite criminals. As ever, the MSM presstitutes do their bidding, as we’ve been accustomed to since 2020. Cue the predictable AF slurs and hit pieces. It’s just a long time coming. I’m sure they’re working on people like Neil Oliver as we speak but Brand obviously has a ‘colourful’ history so he’s easier to target. To me this is as obviously BS as is the fact the death jabs are killing and injuring people. A no-brainer. There’ll be a… Read more »

ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

…they didn’t ‘come forward’ either..they were approached by the reporters..it would be interesting to know how many more ex-girlfriends they talked to or tried to coerce to talk??

Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

He wasn’t has famous or outspoken back then so, no gain for the media blob!
Now he has 6.5 million viewer’s (more than c4 and the times put together)
He’s now a threat, so wheel out the lawsuits!

Jon Garvey
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The clue is surely in two newspapers and a TV channel all “spontaneously” getting involved in the investigation. Where is the same collaboration seen with regard to Jeffery Epstein or Ghislane Maxwell?

WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Trial by media. Too many cases of this these days.

While I don’t wish to downplay any trauma these women may have suffered, there are well established routes for reporting historical abuse in the UK: I’ve got friends of both sexes who are currently receiving support for this and know of several others who have gone through the process, with at least one perp doing time for it. It does NOT include going to the press first, hence my suspicions here. Follow the money.

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

https://twitter.com/SaltyGoat17/status/1703231788171108810

Video of RB mouthing off with a few facts and figures and probably upsetting a lot of folk who might want payback.

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

Look how uncomfortable the host is as he tries to stop the facts spilling out across the studio floor. In my view – (but what do I know?) – this is precisely why RB is being attacked now. Maybe they had or have something on him, who knows, but one thing is sure his subscriber base of 6.5 million ‘awakened wonders’ is a direct threat to the status quo of maintaining an unhealthy ‘move along, nothing to see here’ crowd of sleepy sheepies. Cracks are appearing like crevasses in the mainstream glacier all over the place. I feel that we are about to witness a whole spate of attacks against some of our main truth tellers. They – the bottom-feeder globalists – are feeling threatened. Good.

DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Thing is, in broadcasting these claims in a 90-minute ‘documentary’, rather than encouraging the women to go to the police and providing their evidence as backup, Channel Four and The Sunday Times have made a fair trial impossible if Russell Brand is arrested and charged. They’ve circumvented subjudice laws by putting a case for the prosecution before any charges or trial, which skirts the borders of perverting the course of justice and contempt of court. Brand was asked to respond to the allegations, but wasn’t told who made the allegations, so how could he respond? Apparently the investigations started in 2019, just as he really came to prominence as an anti-authoritarian voice, which is convenient. The mainstream press are all using the catch-all terms ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘conspiracy theorist’ in a major pile-on. One charity has already ditched Brand, so this can only be intended as character assassination and an attempt to ‘cancel’ him. It will be impossible to try Brand criminally in the circumstances. As lawfare, they know they can bankrupt him in any libel or slander cases by dragging them out and trying to trick him into incriminating himself. So Brand’s only other option is to keep on… Read more »

Amtrup
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Very good point. It exposes their agenda in fact; not helping victims of sexual abuse ( if any ) but a take-down.

JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

I wonder if they (ITN et al) have been advised about the risk of being sued for damages? After all, the balance of probability in such a case is different from a criminal prosecution. We’ll see how Brand responds to it in due course.

NeilParkin
2 years ago

Will Conservatives scrap boiler ban in Rishi Sunak’s Net Zero review?

I doubt it. The man of inaction will think about it, realise that he is being held hostage by eco-zealots, people who couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag, and give up immediately. Whatever, Labour will want ‘harder, faster’ when they are elected.

NeilParkin
2 years ago

Graham Linehan praises ‘bravery’ of The IT Crowd star Richard Ayoade and Johnathan Ross for backing his new book about being cancelled for criticising trans rights movement” 

Have you noticed that the condemnation of successful and talented people always comes from complete non-entities, usually useless people who have achieved nothing other than a reputation for moaning about perfectly reasonable things.

WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Wrote this a couple of days ago but worth repeating. Can’t remember who said it (might have been Nerdrotic on YT) but the list of cancelled artists is now so long they’re beginning to outnumber the wokerati conformists. It’s a badge of honour so wear it well. (I would say pride but, you know, reasons.)

Mogwai
2 years ago

Good one by Jessica Rose. The only thing I disagree with her on is that she doesn’t think they’re trying to kill us but I do. The fact these injections are still on the market and being pushed on the population ( demographics that especially have no need to fear catching a cold too ) despite proven dangers and ineffectiveness is all the proof that you need. ”The past 3 years have brought things to all of our lives that none of us have seen before. Some of our elders have surely seen the signs of rising dictatorships scattered around the globe, but global lock ups and persecution of healthy people has no precedent. So why did they do this? They claim they needed to do it to ‘keep us safe from a deadly pathogen’. They claim there was an emergency. Fact: There was no pathogen that was deadly to all demographics. This was a manufactured and propagated lie. We knew this early on, as well. Children and people with functioning immune systems were fine. Bit of Vitamin D and some NAC, and off you go. In the infirm and elders, focused care should have been the protocol. Like always,… Read more »

MichaelM
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I know the new “vaccines” use the mRNA technology, but does anyone know if the spike protein is still the antigen produced? My understanding is that both the mRNA technology and the spike protein are seriously harmful to health, but the two working in tandem makes this even worse.

JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  MichaelM

Delve into JC’s YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Campbellteaching on the topic. There appears to be emerging evidence that the spike protein created by the so-called “vaccine” is its self hazardous, e.g. to heart muscle etc.

1984imminent
2 years ago

On some websites, it was announced that “a massive story” was going to break this weeked. Mumsnet (once Covid hysteria central) had pages and pages speculating on it. The only clue of what it might be about was that it involved MeToo, and newspapers announced in advance that something massive was going to be announced, all journalist leave cancelled.

But the question we should all have asked ourselves at once was:

WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DISTRACTING US FROM???????

The timing of this has government fingerprints all over it.
Why are their spin doctors so hard at work?
Announcing in advance that there will be something “massive” has echoes of “Saint Boris will give a covid briefing this evening”, with face nappies “expected” to become compulsory. Get the plebs speculating and frothing in advance, so they don’t look at the government.

Mogwai
2 years ago

What’s gotten into Salman Rushdie? Has he ran out of gratitude for the two countries that are responsible for him being alive today? ”Salman Rushdie, who is still on the hit list of the Islamic Republic of Iran, popped up again Wednesday to give an address via video to the National First Amendment Summit in Philadelphia. It was a fitting forum for the author of “The Satanic Verses,” since it was governments that uphold the First Amendment right of the freedom of speech that protected Rushdie all the decades since he first became the recipient of a death fatwa. Yet in an astonishing display of ingratitude and incomprehension, the celebrated novelist used his address to denounce Britain and the United States, the two countries to which he owes his very life. Imagine if Rushdie had been living in any majority-Muslim country on Feb. 14, 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini first declared that he must be killed because of the supposed blasphemy against Islam contained in “The Satanic Verses.” There is little doubt that in that case, the bounty on his head would long ago have been collected, and he would now be a dim memory, forgotten aside from occasional literary… Read more »

Freddy Boy
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

None of our help stopped getting knifed up !

Freddy Boy
2 years ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

him

Jon Smith
2 years ago

I’ve been subjected to similar allegations as Brand, not as serious, although certainly criminal and not over such a time line. It all started after I made an application to the courts to see my son, her lawyers, radical feminists from Womens Aid get their hands on it, (massively over paid by the tax payer of course) . What they do is turn quite normal events of the past in to criminalised allegations.. Sexual assault of both my ex partner and my son, violence towards the parents in law, controlling /abuse behaviour etc etc.. To give an example, the controlling and abusive behaviour was over the alleged control of money, strange thing was before I met my ex I had recently sold some property and she had no money at all….. I had lots of money and she didn’t, that was the fact, but that was deemed “controlling”. This is how it works…. Its an extremely difficult situation and with the institutional gender bias within the courts and system one soon depletes ones finances and heads for a mental breakdown.. Brand will not beat the system, it’s rigged, they gone for him and he will no doubt be jailed over… Read more »

DS99
2 years ago

The Time article on the too sick to work numbers passing one million … it’s behind a paywall so just wondering if anyone knows what they put it down to?

ellie-em
2 years ago
Reply to  DS99

Copy and paste the URL from the address bar to:

http://archive.today/

‘More than two thirds of people claiming health-related universal credit benefits in June were judged to be unable to work, compared with less than half before the pandemic. Critics say that the government has little idea what is wrong with these people, making it harder for them to address the problem.’

What a surprise- the government has little idea…

Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

When they compare rates of illness with before the pandemic, they are being deceptive. From the IFS report on the increase in claims for Personal Independence Payments, which doubled between Summer 2021 and Summer 2022, the comparison should be with before the mass injection campaign during 2021.

NickR
2 years ago
Reply to  DS99

Install an app calles Press Reader. Register using your local authority library card & you can access just about every paper/magazine.

allofusarefat
allofusarefat
2 years ago

“Will Conservatives scrap boiler ban…?” Will Pope scrap Catholicism? Will bears boycott woods? So fed up with suggestions, despite all evidence to contrary, that (a) current govt is in any way “conservative” (b) somehow isn’t packed to the nines with net zero true believers (c) is ‘in charge’ and can act independently of instructions from its puppet masters (d) has any intention or permission to suddenly change heart and come riding to the rescue. They despise us, just as much as Starmer/Gray and crew.

MichaelM
2 years ago
Reply to  allofusarefat

I fully agree with your posting, but would be interested to get some sense of the balance of people in the current government that are:

  1. “net zero true believers”
  2. not true believers but see net zero as the means by which the authoritarian agenda can be implemented.

I would argue that category 2 ministers are evil, whereas category 1 ministers are badly misinformed but not necessarily evil.

Any thoughts?

soundofreason
soundofreason
2 years ago

In

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66818302

We find:

The leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised to the people of the city and insisted he had “no prior notice” of its “bankruptcy” crisis.

Councillor John Cotton said he had met with Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove this week to discuss support.

The leader was on holiday in the US when the section 114 notice was issued, halting all new spending.

He may not have known that the section 114 notice was about to be issued, but surely he cannot have been so incompetent that he didn’t realise the money was running out. Still, someone else’s money, eh?

Damn incompetent moron.

We also find:

The city council’s problems are, in part, because it needs to settle a £760m bill for equal pay claims and it had already taken the decision to stop non-essential spending. in July.

I should bloody well hope so. If my local council is spending on non-essentials I want to know why. I’ll decide what non-essentials I spend my spare cash on, thanks very much.

As for having to settle historic equal pay claims: when did that become a surprise?

Castorp
Castorp
2 years ago

Dr. Peter McCullough testified in the European Parliament in Strasbourg which was chaired by Christine Anderson” – Watch the dissident doctor make the most of his opportunity to tell MEPs some suppressed scientific truths about the Covid vaccines, the WHO and the U.S. public health establishment.

1000 publications, 650 citations, an impeccable physician, a true hero in the fullest sense of the word – thank you Dr. McCullough!

Immensely important, required viewing and totally appropriate for sharing with those left behind.

ebygum
2 years ago

LOL!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-symptoms-mild-follow-pattern-doctors-say-rcna105090#

Doctors say they’re finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish Covid from allergies or the common cold, even as hospitalizations tick up.
The illness’ past hallmarks, such as a dry cough or the loss of sense of taste or smell, have become less common. Instead, doctors are observing milder disease, mostly concentrated in the upper respiratory tract. 
“It isn’t the same typical symptoms that we were seeing before. It’s a lot of congestion, sometimes sneezing, usually a mild sore throat,” said Dr. Erick Eiting, vice chair of operations for emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City.

JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

They must be guessing about how many typical common cold like infections occur. Most of us do not inform them at all when we have to deal with one!

JeremyP99
2 years ago

Funny C4 & whatever rag it was didn’t contact the police…

soundofreason
soundofreason
2 years ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Funny those who brought the allegations went to the media first…

DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Worse than that, the media dug for four years and could only find four women willing to say these things anonymously. The media went after Brand. The question is, why did they decide to go after him? What was the impetus? Presumably his then-increasing presence as a sceptical online voice.

The papers are already attacking his YouTube supporters and selectively quoting them. If you read their comments normally, these aren’t the ‘Brand worshipper zombies’ hanging on to his every word that the press is portraying them as: they’re all sceptical people from many different backgrounds.

JohnK
2 years ago

Thalidomide: The Untold Story, by Andrew Bridgen MP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e3MsLkY6Ow&list=WL&index=7 And an obvious comparison with today’s issue.

ekathulium
ekathulium
2 years ago

Powerful stuff from McCullough.
He joins Semmelweis and Wakefield and, ultimately, Galileo!