Russell Brand should reform by starting the Illuminati Parti

I had grand plans to write a blog airing my opinions about how Angelina Jolie battled for female rights in war-torn Africa on the very same day Indian women were rallying to change the legal system so it protects them. How the media sensationalise everything. Why we're still interested in Princess Diana and the disappearance of Madeline McCann. However, that crazy-haired goth Russell Brand edited The New Statesman, so I'm donning a beret and flying the revolutionary flag.

Open letter to Russell Brand

His article struck a chord with me and judging by the buzz it created on social media, I wasn't alone.

I'm tired of paying fines for only just going over the speed limit, which is blatantly an extra tax on the motorist. I'm just about ready to go nuclear over Reading Borough Council's absolute incompetence to set up and honour a direct debit. Mostly, I'm sick to the back teeth of working my arse off just so I can live hand to mouth.

Russell's right. We do need a revolution. We need a total government reform. It doesn't work. Broken Britain doesn't exist because of estates riddled with a disillusioned and despondent youth. It exists because we're ruled by an archaic system that's run by a group of people who live above the norm.

The people who really fund this country. The majority shareholders are you and me, people work full-time and pay tax on every scrap of money that comes their way. The wealthy all have off-shore accounts, so don't invest one iota in this country. Yet, the system is set up to protect their interests. If this was a corporation, everything would exist to protect the majority shareholders, the people that put the most money into the system. Me and you.

Government functions on deals struck with foreign governments and corporations. MPs will push through legislation to suit their anonymous benefactors, who'll bestow stuffed brown envelopes on them. How is this not prostitution? I don't believe these Bullingdon club alumni look down on men and women who walk the streets because they need to survive or feed an illness that the state induced. Yet think nothing of bending over and taking it from the likes Jimmy Carr. I wonder how David Cameron feels that he's being laughed at by celebrities and corporations. I wonder if he just hands them the KY and takes the arse-fucking just so him and his family can sit in a sprawling country mansion and eat grouse every Sunday while overlooking the moat and duck pond. While the rest of us freeze to death, face eviction, scrape together leftovers and shop in Poundland just for making an honest living.

I mean, what does Michael Gove know about education? Is he a qualified teacher? He's never even been to a comprehensive school, so why is he representing them? Why is Theresa May Home Secretary? Did she reach the top of her profession as a social worker? Perhaps she was a top ranking prison warden? And William Hague, how did he land Foreign Secretary? Is it years of an illustrious career in MI5 or serving as a diplomat? No, the truth is people in charge of leading and shaping the most fundamental areas of our lives are not qualified to do so. Even if you wanted a job in Greggs, you'd have to prove you know your pastries from your pasties. Not however if you get paid megabucks to make crucial decisions over every aspect of 63 million people's lives. All you need the ability to give a metaphorical (and perhaps literal) hand-job in a hotel lobby to someone with money and/or power.