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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

#014 Election Eve: Is It Stupid To Vote For Peace?

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On the eve of the UK General Election I talk with Stop The War’s Lindsey German and Dr Brad Evans about how violence has been normalised to the point where as voters we’ve not only become desensitised to it, but have been taught to desire it from our leaders.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to Under the Skin election eve special with me Russell Brand Lindsey German and Dr. Professor Dr. Professor Dr. Brad Evans.

0:12.0

In Under the Skin we ask what's beneath the surface of people we admire, ideas that define our time, the history that we are told, the show is sponsored by me, me, me and my rebirth to the next couple of shows are sold out.

0:23.3

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0:33.3

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0:40.6

I've got a very, very fragile ego and I need you over now to under the skin.

0:53.3

Lindsey German is a British left-wing political activist and founding member of the British anti-war organisation stop the war coalition.

1:16.3

She is twice stood as candidate for Mayor of London and is co-author of the book A People's History of London.

1:22.8

Dr. Brad Evans is a reader in political violence at the University of Bristol and director of the History of Violence Project.

1:28.8

His books include disposable futures, the seduction of violence in an age of the spectacle and portraits of violence and illustrated history of radical thought.

1:37.6

I've got both those books, they're good.

1:39.8

Lindsey, thank you very much for coming on our show.

1:43.1

You're welcome.

1:44.0

This is a pertinent time, the general election 8th of June in the United Kingdom is tomorrow that being a member of the stop the war coalition,

1:56.2

or founder member of the stop the war coalition, I suppose that means that you're not a conservative voter.

2:02.7

You guessed it, it's right for us time.

2:05.3

I'm a very big fan of Jeremy Corbyn and I hope that he does very very well tomorrow.

2:12.7

He was one of the founder members of the stop the war coalition as well.

2:16.3

When we first had our big meeting just after 9-11, which is where we were formed, he was one of the people who spoke.

2:22.9

I think this election is so important in terms of there is a real choice between more war-mongering, more killing,

2:32.4

all of the things that we've seen over the last 16 years or a different approach from a Labour government, hopefully,

2:38.9

which will say we don't want more of these things.

2:40.9

There has to be a different answer than just invading more countries, bombing more countries,

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