Russell Brand responds to David Cameron’s comments that he is ‘joke’

Russell Brand tweeted this message with a picture of David Cameron with the Oxford Bullingdon club

Meanwhile Nigel Farage has also waded into the row now, describing him as “shameful” and a “negative influence on British politics”: “I had the delight of meeting Russell Brand and sharing a platform with him on Question Time. We were slightly delayed getting the programme started as the make-up artist combed his chest hair.

“That suggested he had a slightly different set of priorities than I do. I think Russell Brand is an entirely negative influence on British politics. I think to say to young people ‘you should not vote’ is shameful.

“He has a lot of followers [on social media], he is a big celeb and he has been very successful in his own field but to say to young people don’t engage in the political process, it is all waste of time?

“Goodness me, people fought and died so we could be a democratic country, women chained themselves to railings so they could get the vote and here comes a celeb saying to impressionable youth it is not worth engaging with this process. I really think that is wrong.”