Former bricklayer here. Most working class people (like most middle-class people) are disgusted by the comments coming from Reform UK figures caught on camera by ITV. Bigoted privately educated multimillionaire far-right wanker Nigel Farage doesn't give a solitary shit about working class people. Nor does bigoted privately educated multimillionaire far-right wanker Rupert Lowe.

A woman has alleged Russell Brand told her “it’s just fun” as he raped her in a hotel room at the 1999 Labour party conference, a court has heard. The alleged victim told detectives the comedian made her feel sick and dirty as he assaulted her despite her pleading: “Get off me, please stop. It hurts.” Brand faces three charges of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault against six women, in allegations spanning 10 years from 1999 to 2009. He denies all the charges and has pleaded not guilty. The 51-year-old fixed his gaze on one of the TV screens at Southwark crown court on Thursday as a video of the woman’s interview from 27 September 2023 was played. She told police she met Brand at a fringe cabaret event that he was performing in during the Labour party conference in Bournemouth in 1999. She was not attracted to the then unknown performer, whom she assumed was gay and showered her with compliments. But she found him polite and intelligent, and the pair spoke about their work before going back to her hotel room to continue their conversation. The woman said she “froze” in the run-down single room when she returned from the toilet to find that Brand was partly naked and “prancing around” like an ostrich. He also asked her to take photographs of him. She said she asked him why he had undressed, and he told her: “Don’t worry, I’m mostly naked at home.” She told police he then raped her in an attack that lasted up to 10 minutes and left her feeling frightened, in pain, and like she couldn’t breathe. “He did rape, he did push me on the bed,” she told police. “He did pull my clothes off, he took my trousers off. “I remember him on me, very heavy. I know I said no. I kind of drifted out of my head. I couldn’t get out of the situation – ‘do I shout, do I scream?’ He was very heavy, I couldn’t breathe, it didn’t take long.” She described his body as snake-like and “disgusting” and said his tongue was “horrible” like a lizard. “I’m saying ‘no, no’ but I was really scared. I know he groped me. I know he was touching me, I know he grabbed my breasts. I know he tried to kiss me and I moved my neck. I didn’t want his mouth on mine,” she told police. “He was just pulling my trousers down and pulling my underwear off, and he was inside me. It was not nice, it was painful and it hurt.” She said she closed her eyes during the attack and hoped it would be over quickly. She recalled: “He was making noises, a lot of noises of enjoyment and saying how pretty I was. I remember him complimenting me, saying: ‘Are you enjoying it’? I remember him asking me. Obviously I didn’t answer.” She alleged that Brand spoke as the attack was unfolding. She told police: “He was just saying: ‘We’re having fun, it’s fine, it’s all good, don’t worry about it, it’s just fun, it’s normal.’” The woman, who had been a victim of abuse in the past, said Brand made her compare earlier experiences, and it “stuck in her head … is this what abusers do?” She told police: “It was almost like to convince me it’s all OK and that I’d enjoy it, that I’d have to learn to enjoy it.” In the aftermath, she said Brand acted “like nothing was wrong”, wrote down his email address, and suggested that his mother might like to meet her. The following morning, she banged her head against the wall because she felt numb. She told police she had had nightmares about being pregnant and said she kept quiet about the incident for years as she watched Brand becoming “more and more famous”. The woman said a 2023 Dispatches documentary about allegation of sexual misconduct by Brand “triggered” her to go to police. Brand denies the allegations. The trial continues. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…