Russell Brand has endorsed Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister, saying he is “committed to serving the people of Britain.”
The comedian and actor, who backed Ed Miliband in the last General Election, has shared a blog post announcing that he will be backing Labour again.
“A Labour government won’t be perfect, it will be operating within a system that opposes its new, manifest agenda to serve the people it will be elected to govern,” he wrote on Huffington Post.
“Jeremy Corbyn won’t be perfect, he is a human being. We have a chance to elect a politician who is committed to serving the people of Britain. To supporting the NHS, public services and educating the young people to whom the future belongs.”
Urging people not to vote for Theresa May, Brand said that a vote for the Conservatives would be a vote for discarding the “opportunity for change.”
“Electing the Tories for another five years, to throw the opportunity for change into the distant indeterminate wasteland of 2022 would be an act of collective self-loathing bordering on mass sadomasochism,” he said.
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“We must have some faith in humanity, some faith in one another, some hope that we can build a better society together, rather than burrowing downward from the gutter to whatever circle may be propping up hell.”
Referencing Corbyn’s connections to the IRA, the Radio X DJ said that the allegations didn’t “meet up to scrutiny.”
“Even the more ‘controversial’ stuff in his search history doesn’t hold up to scrutiny – meeting with the IRA; he wasn’t at a barn dance in Londonderry downing Guinness in a balaclava, he was perspicaciously acknowledging the necessity for negotiation in pursuit of a peaceful solution,” he said.
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“Which is what happened, years later. You could say that he was ahead of his time. Or a leader.”
Brand, who has previously urged fans not to vote at all, famously interviewed Miliband two years ago ahead of the General Election.