Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has said society’s acceptance of Russell Brand’s promiscuous behaviour shows ‘a rottenness in our society.’
Speaking on his GB News show, he said: “Pride cometh before a destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
“Russell Brand being sentenced today to 10-and-a-half years in prison for vile sex offences hasn’t just shown that he’s behaved badly, but it’s shown a rottenness in our society that encouraged him.
“And I say ‘encouraged’ him because he didn’t hide his behaviour. For years, he boasted about the fact that he was making notches on his bedpost, that he was a sexual predator.
“The ladies involved, who were just one conquest, one night for Russell Brand, suffered from this, and some of them suffered deeply and to a criminal standard.
“Others who don’t meet the criminal standard, nonetheless, suffered. And this was all deemed to be right by society. It was deemed to be a way that somebody should be allowed to behave and do so without any shame.
“And it seems to me that this is fundamentally wrong. That it is not just a condemnation, therefore, of Russell Brand that we’ve had today, but of licentiousness in society at large.”
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