[Margaret Pilkington]

No, it doesn't make him wrong, but his spoutings do make him a hypocrite of the first order.
He actually couldn't give a flying ferret for the cause of the common people..he only cares that this stunt has raised his profile, and this is good for his tour...making him yet more money...and before you ask...no, I am not against him making money. If people are daft enough to part with their hard earned cash to hear him spout his foul mouthed rubbish, then that is entirely up to them...but for him to portray himself/or get the media to portray him as a campaigner for the common people is at best dishonest.
He says he only took on the guest editorship of the New Statesman because he was asked by a 'pretty woman'...which suggests to me that he was thinking with his trouser snake.

As for your question about you keeping warm...no it doesn't make you a hypocrite.......you just have a big pile of wood ready for burning.
Russell Brand is a hypocrite because he is pretending to be concerned about the people who have less than himself...when he doesn't give a hoot about them....it is just a publicity thing to get him in the public eye...that is what makes him a hypocrite

None of us need to be informed by Russell Brand of the dire state of politics...and it isn't just in this country...neither do we need to be informed of what his opinion is that we should do to rectify it.
You have a brain, and I have a brain...we are both capable of cogent thought(as are many members of this forum...I won't say all, because there are some who I have doubts about, no names, no pack drill)......but whether we can influence others with out thoughts and opinion is another matter entirely.