RoyBatty
04-13-2009, 02:54 PM
Good show old boy. :thumb001:
Russell Brand has joked on Twitter that he plans to pay the BBC's £150,000 Ofcom fine and claim it back on expenses, in a jibe at Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and her fellow MPs.
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
Last Updated: 11:20AM BST 07 Apr 2009
Russell Brand jokes on Twitter about BBC's Ofcom fine
Russell Brand has joked that he will pay the BBC's £150,000 fine for the Andrew Sachs Photo: GETTY
Media watchdog Ofcom imposed the fine as punishment for the Andrew Sachs scandal, in which Brand and Jonathan Ross made obscene remarks about the actor's granddaughter during a Radio 2 broadcast.
Writing on his Twitter page, Brand said: "I have decided to pay the Ofcom fine. I'll put it on my expense account. Oh no, I don't have one because I'm a citizen not a corrupt MP."
He also wrote: "Shamed MPs are exploiting us and misusing their expense accounts. They want us to be distracted from this. I'm going to write about it now."
In an earlier posting, the controversial comedian attacked Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who had joined calls for Brand and Ross to pay the fine out of their own pockets, and made reference to Straw's son receiving a police caution for trying to sell cannabis to an undercover reporter in 1997.
"I demand Jack Straw pay the £7bn he squandered on the Iraq war that we didn't want. No wonder his son has to toke himself to sleep," Brand wrote. He also demanded: "What do 'ofcom' do with all that money? What is their mandate? I think they spend it all on porn. As had of 'ofporn' I fine them £150000."
Brand, 33, resigned from his Radio 2 show last year after the Andrew Sachs controversy prompted 45,000 complaints from the public. Ross kept his job and the majority of his £18 million salary.
His criticism of "shamed MPs" was aimed in part at Jacqui Smith, whose expense claim included two pornographic films watched by her husband. She is also under pressure to justify a wealth of claims for her "second home" in Redditch, Worcestershire, which include a barbeque, patio heater and toothbrush.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5118916/Russell-Brand-on-Twitter-Ill-put-BBC-fine-on-my-expense-account.html
Russell Brand has joked on Twitter that he plans to pay the BBC's £150,000 Ofcom fine and claim it back on expenses, in a jibe at Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and her fellow MPs.
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
Last Updated: 11:20AM BST 07 Apr 2009
Russell Brand jokes on Twitter about BBC's Ofcom fine
Russell Brand has joked that he will pay the BBC's £150,000 fine for the Andrew Sachs Photo: GETTY
Media watchdog Ofcom imposed the fine as punishment for the Andrew Sachs scandal, in which Brand and Jonathan Ross made obscene remarks about the actor's granddaughter during a Radio 2 broadcast.
Writing on his Twitter page, Brand said: "I have decided to pay the Ofcom fine. I'll put it on my expense account. Oh no, I don't have one because I'm a citizen not a corrupt MP."
He also wrote: "Shamed MPs are exploiting us and misusing their expense accounts. They want us to be distracted from this. I'm going to write about it now."
In an earlier posting, the controversial comedian attacked Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who had joined calls for Brand and Ross to pay the fine out of their own pockets, and made reference to Straw's son receiving a police caution for trying to sell cannabis to an undercover reporter in 1997.
"I demand Jack Straw pay the £7bn he squandered on the Iraq war that we didn't want. No wonder his son has to toke himself to sleep," Brand wrote. He also demanded: "What do 'ofcom' do with all that money? What is their mandate? I think they spend it all on porn. As had of 'ofporn' I fine them £150000."
Brand, 33, resigned from his Radio 2 show last year after the Andrew Sachs controversy prompted 45,000 complaints from the public. Ross kept his job and the majority of his £18 million salary.
His criticism of "shamed MPs" was aimed in part at Jacqui Smith, whose expense claim included two pornographic films watched by her husband. She is also under pressure to justify a wealth of claims for her "second home" in Redditch, Worcestershire, which include a barbeque, patio heater and toothbrush.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5118916/Russell-Brand-on-Twitter-Ill-put-BBC-fine-on-my-expense-account.html