"[On Russell Brand a year later] [T]he Jesus Clown is pilloried for being a dreadful influence on young people. If the youth don't vote, then policies that continue to punish them will be waved through by our decrepit politicians. Actually, the Jesus Clown is not what I call a young person, Lydon isn't, and I am certainly not, but the Clown has a reach, that's for sure. My 13-year-old adores him, and the part of me that is for ever 13 gets why. A lot of what he says is sub-Chomskyian woo, but these frustrations with existing political structures – they exist. Somehow it is always assumed that young people are naive idealists who, when they grow up and understand how things really work or don’t work at all, will buckle down and do the right thing. The right thing here means voting Labour."
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Brand's Revolution had just been published. Moore's article was amended at the end of the month. It originally stated: "A lot of what he says is ghostwritten sub-Chomskyian woo"; Moore had received a legal letter threatening libel action. It had been speculated the (disgraced) journalist Johann Hari had been involved in writing it; Hari had acted as Brand's researcher.
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