"Sorry Backwoodsman, I ran out of popcorn."

Hope it was good? But you just forfeited the beer I was going to supply at the next EFC night! :-)

My views on Brand as a human being are well documented and need no further comment but, notwithstanding those views, I found nothing new in what he said in the Paxman interview, it was naive, simplistic, rambling, and it was the kind of childish, unrealistic stuff that, as Lower-6th 16-year-olds, my mates and I used to babble on about in the Common-Room - prattling on about 'revolution' without ever knowing exactly how to bring it about and what a very dirty, unpleasant, and for some (many even), fatal, business that would be. Other than the airy-fairy 'revolution' suggestion and the exhortation to withhold votes, he proposed not one real solution.

If he'd been on 'Bake-Off', he'd have been knocked down by Paul Hollywood as being 'All Style and No Substance', someone to be admired, even lusted over (although, in my wife's words, "Dog knows why!") by impressionable kids and menopausal women, but not to be taken seriously as any kind of political force.

For Dog's sake, 99% of the population of the UK know precisely what the problems faced by the UK are, and they know why. What they need are strong leaders with strong and realistic solutions, not celebrity air-heads who actually know no more than the rest of us do, but for whom the oxygen of publicity is a guarantee of the continuation of their obscenely lucrative professional lives.

The Messiah, come to redeem us all, he is not.

IMHO, YMMV, that's fine, it's your right.