Alternative Voices


The latest edition of Private Eye contains a spoof of Russell Brand's recent venture into politics - or not as the case may be since the comedian's sage advice is that people should not even bother to vote at election time.

 Now that seems like a counsel of despair to me - even though many politicians and their parties often inspire widespread cynicism amongst the voting public - and with good reason as the MPs expenses scandal showed.
THE ALTERNATIVE VOICE

 RUSSELL SPART This week's guest editor of the New Statesman writes about revolution.

      Er... basically the time has come to break the traditional paradigm that is so-called democratic government by registering the people's total and absolute disillusionment with existing power structures and er... refusing to collude with the discredited fascist capitalist stays quo and er... instead adopting a radical liberal progressive revolutionary stance of doing nothing at all... er... thereby rendering the current hypocritical hegemonic hierarchy impotent in the face of a genuine transformative transcendental meditation-based agenda with a bit of taking drugs and shagging everything that moves thrown in... er... I mean it's really unfair the world... isn't it? 

     I'm thinking of doing politics at A-level.....

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