Quote Originally Posted by WhenTattieFlooredChas View Post
The thing that worries me about this is that, with no real investigation, it has pretty much been decided he is guilty. You even have co*ks like Cleverly coming in and stoking the guilty narrative.

If he's guilty he deserves everything coming to him and his career to be ruined. If he isn't guilty - his career is potentially ruined regardless. Surely there needs to be a degree of silence whilst the police investigate and it, if necessary, goes to trial.

There is no place for anyone of any *** or gender abusing (mentally or physically) someone else of any *** or gender. It's not acceptable and needs to be punished and ideally eradicated (if only!). But regardless if you think the perpetrator is a tw*t or not, they deserve a fair hearing without trail by media making everyone's minds up in advance.

I've never had much time for him, and he could well be guilty. I don't know, he could well be innocent. If he's guilty, then yes, lock him up.
I'm with you.
I'm not big on trial by media/social media, I'd like to think law enforcement would be all over this gathering evidence etc.
And I wonder why they haven't been until now.
There will inevitably be political partisanship in play, though, as I recall, Brand's politics seem to have been scattergun and attention seeking.
I seem to recall him being pro-Trump and espousing tinfoil hat theories during Covid. (Though I could have that wrong, my only totally clear recollection is of him writing a fitba column in the Guardian or Observer a good while back, he's a 'ammer I recall. )

But he, and everyone, should be held accountable for criminal actions in a proper fashion. ie by people acting in the public interest, nae chasing readers/ratings.