RUSSELL BRAND SPARKS SOCIAL MEDIA OUTRAGE AS HE TAKES A SWIPE AT THE QUEEN

RUSSELL BRAND SPARKS SOCIAL MEDIA OUTRAGE AS HE TAKES A SWIPE AT THE QUEEN

BY JAMES SIMONS

Controversial  comedian, Russell Brand, has once again sparked outrage and a backlash after sharing an extract from his book ‘Revolution’ suggesting the Queen may as well have been called “Mrs Bratwurst-Kraut-Nazi”.

The comedian took a swipe at the monarch when he posted a paragraph from one of his anti-establishment diatribe page on Facebook.

The extract was critical of the longstanding  English tradition of calling the Queen “your Majesty”, with the outspoken Brand claiming that this placed her “at the top of a class pyramid on a shelf of money with her own face on it”.

“We should be calling her Mrs Windsor,” his stated, In fact that’s not even her real name, they changed it in the war to distract us from the inconvenient fact that they were as German as the enemy that teenage boys were being encouraged, conscripted actually, to die fighting. Her actual name is Mrs Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

“‘Mrs Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’!! No wonder they f**king changed it. It’s the most German thing I’ve ever heard – she might’ve well as been called ‘Mrs Bratwurst-Kraut-Nazi’.”

Brand was lambasted by facebook uses who accused him of ”glaring hypocrisy” after an image of him meeting the Queen in 2007 after the Royal variety performance was uploaded.  Brand’s critics are right, in that one who formerly met the Queen and enjoyed the accolades associated with the meeting is hardly in a position to be so critical of her to the point of making us wonder if she has done something to upset him.

The Grays born comedian and  former television presenter seems to be hooked on making controversial comments  in a bid to boost his profile. Sure enough, there are many who like Brand because of the audacity he so often demonstrates, but he most certainly is exceeding reasonable boundaries with the regularity of his ‘over the mark’  comments. He was recently heavily criticised for undermining the minutes silence recommended for those killed in the Tunisian terror attack, though his defence was political in nature, making his comments no less acceptable.

Brand was not long ago described by a writer as ”a stupid man’s idea of a clever person” , and lambasted by a writer from India’s G.Q magazine as being ”that person in school nobody wanted to do mushrooms with”. The 40 year old is a daring man with a stream of opinions flowing down the veins of his controversial mind, but must balance the wide ranging conflicting thoughts and sentiments that creates two personalities in one-”the funny man and the  vindictive insensitive man”

One social media user blasted him, saying “he speaks the ramblings of the privileged few yet wants to appear to represent the masses.”

Another rebuked him saying “You are so wrong on many counts…The Queen is Mrs Mountbatten, not Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, that was her mother’s maiden name…..Windsor is the House of Windsor, like the Plantaginates and the Tudors, her Grandfather decided on the Windsor Dynast

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