Alan Sugar takes a government role in the business and enterprise department and gets a peerage.
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'Unpaid' huh..
meh..
meh..
This farrago absolutely stinks of Marxism doesn't it?
wonder if he pointed the finger at GB
quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
This farrago absolutely stinks of Marxism doesn't it?
No it just stinks.
Brown will do ANYTHING to get on a popular bandwagon, what with the Apprentice final coming up.
Really?
I've just switched on to the BBC News Channel and seen no mention of it but they're just announcing the Conservative gains in the local elections at the moment though so maybe they'll mention it later!
I've just switched on to the BBC News Channel and seen no mention of it but they're just announcing the Conservative gains in the local elections at the moment though so maybe they'll mention it later!
quote:Originally posted by Cadoxton:quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
This farrago absolutely stinks of Marxism doesn't it?
No it just stinks.
Brown will do ANYTHING to get on a popular bandwagon, what with the Apprentice final coming up.
In fairness they are 'buddies' and Sugar is a long time Labour and Brown supporter.. so it was inevitable. I don't think he has timed it with that.. I can't see him thrashing out fiscal and economic policy and strategy in the Cabinet office and saying 'Hang on Darling, when's the final of the Apprentice again?'.
What next...Amanda Holden as culture secretary?
quote:Originally posted by HyacinthB:
Really?
I've just switched on to the BBC News Channel and seen no mention of it but they're just announcing the Conservative gains in the local elections at the moment though so maybe they'll mention it later!
Oh, I've got blogs and newsfeeds and all sorts open on my desktop, all this Browndemonium
distracting me from the drafting I SHOULD be doing
quote:I don't think he has timed it with that.. .
Naive or what?
quote:Originally posted by Cadoxton:quote:I don't think he has timed it with that.. .
Naive or what?
Oh yes.. that has oft been a criticism levelled at me.
To be fair, at least he's qualified for a job involving business and enterprise.
Unlike a certain Chancellor who couldn't even fill in his own tax return without help..
Unlike a certain Chancellor who couldn't even fill in his own tax return without help..
quote:Originally posted by Demantoid:
To be fair, at least he's qualified for a job involving business and enterprise.
Unlike a certain Chancellor who couldn't even fill in his own tax return without help..
Plus he's already been advising in the background. This just gives him the 'tsar' title and legitimises any peerage offered to him.
No scratch that.. my naivety coming out again.. this is all because of Sunday's final.. yep yep..
quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
This farrago absolutely stinks of Marxism doesn't it?
i'd have thought that any Marxist would treat a business person like Alan Sugar as the enemy??
Don't get your point
quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
This farrago absolutely stinks of Marxism doesn't it?
i'd have thought that any Marxist would treat a business person like Alan Sugar as the enemy??
Don't get your point
irony quote:Originally posted by tupps:quote:Originally posted by Demantoid:
To be fair, at least he's qualified for a job involving business and enterprise.
Unlike a certain Chancellor who couldn't even fill in his own tax return without help..
Plus he's already been advising in the background. This just gives him the 'tsar' title and legitimises any peerage offered to him.
No scratch that.. my naivety coming out again.. this is all because of Sunday's final.. yep yep..
Well, the "Sir" bit is already because of his services to industry
I'd rather someone like SAS (who has actually contributed to the wealth of this country and created jobs) got a peerage than "Lord" flippin Mandy...
quote:Originally posted by Demantoid:
Well, the "Sir" bit is already because of his services to industry
I'd rather someone like SAS (who has actually contributed to the wealth of this country and created jobs) got a peerage than "Lord" flippin Mandy...
And Surrraaalllaaan has the fragrant Ms Mountford (late of Herbert Smith) and Nick whatsisface flanking him.. we'll be out of this bliddy recession in no time..
Whenever I see, hear or read about Mandy.. that Manilow plays in my head.
quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
This farrago absolutely stinks of Marxism doesn't it?
i'd have thought that any Marxist would treat a business person like Alan Sugar as the enemy??
Don't get your point
you never know these days
I'll bet Kate or Yasmina didn't realise that the job they were going for is Secretary of State for Defence.
quote:Originally posted by captain marbles:
I'll bet Kate or Yasmina didn't realise that the job they were going for is Secretary of State for Defence.
which position would Debra go into?
quote:Originally posted by love greek sunsets:quote:Originally posted by captain marbles:
I'll bet Kate or Yasmina didn't realise that the job they were going for is Secretary of State for Defence.
which position would Debra go into?
Minister for Selling Silly Hats?
lets hope he does some good
Alan Sugar: estimated wealth ÂĢ830 million, telling us how to run our lives while the country and most of us in it are up financial shit creek.
The Tories will have a field day.
BrownâĶâĶ..youâre fired.
The Tories will have a field day.
BrownâĶâĶ..youâre fired.
Hey: BROWN SUGAR
quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
Alan Sugar: estimated wealth ÂĢ830 million, telling us how to run our lives while the country and most of us in it are up financial shit creek.
The Tories will have a field day.
BrownâĶâĶ..youâre fired.
Probably! But mainly because the people in this country aren't wrapped tight.
It's not rocket science. I say again unto you.
Don't spend money you haven't got, buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.
quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
Probably! But mainly because the people in this country aren't wrapped tight.
It's not rocket science. I say again unto you.
Don't spend money you haven't got, buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.
quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
Probably! But mainly because the people in this country aren't wrapped tight.
It's not rocket science. I say again unto you.
Don't spend money you haven't got, buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.
quote:Originally posted by Demantoid:quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
Probably! But mainly because the people in this country aren't wrapped tight.
It's not rocket science. I say again unto you.
Don't spend money you haven't got, buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.
Stuff Sugar. They should employ me, shouldn't they?
I'm free!
I'm cheap.
Reshuffle latest:
Susan Boyle now looks likely to get peerage as well and become culture minister.
Same for Beckham and sports.
Last-ditch efforts before complete meltdown?
Susan Boyle now looks likely to get peerage as well and become culture minister.
Same for Beckham and sports.
Last-ditch efforts before complete meltdown?
A Tory press officer has just been round with a photocopy of a letter Alan Sugar (as he then was) wrote to the Financial Times in March 1992. This is how it starts:
Sir, I have noted with disgust the comments of a certain Mr Gordon Brown who has accused me of doing well out of the recession after reading the letter published in the Times from 40 top industrialists.
I do not know who Mr Gordon Brown is. Excuse my ignorance, but I don't. Whoever he is [shadow trade and industry secretary], he has not done his homework properly. The man doesn't know what he's talking about. How he has the audacity to say that Amstrad or Alan Sugar has flourished in recession is a complete mystery to me.
quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:quote:Originally posted by Demantoid:quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
Probably! But mainly because the people in this country aren't wrapped tight.
It's not rocket science. I say again unto you.
Don't spend money you haven't got, buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.
Stuff Sugar. They should employ me, shouldn't they?
I'm free!
I'm cheap.
But only if they put me in charge of prisons...
Who'd want to be a civil servant under Siralun Sugar, the new enterprise czar?
In his first interview today, he laid into "the people on Victoria Street" (the road in Westminster where many government departments are based), saying they had no experience of business.
In his first interview today, he laid into "the people on Victoria Street" (the road in Westminster where many government departments are based), saying they had no experience of business.
quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
Who'd want to be a civil servant under Siralun Sugar, the new enterprise czar?
In his first interview today, he laid into "the people on Victoria Street" (the road in Westminster where many government departments are based), saying they had no experience of business.
They will hate him. One of my pals who shares the same background but is very snobby with an Oxbridge first, resents Sralan because he is a self made man. A lot of academics will share this view and I bet Sugar has been aware of this for years. Wouldn't it be marvellous if he was able to fire them?
quote:Don't spend money you haven't got, buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.
Very wise words GJ and it is something we've always lived by.
As Mr Micawber said in David Copperfield :-
'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings and sixpence - result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and sixpence - result misery.'
Well, it was something like that anyway and I've never forgotten how wise that was and I have never lived beyond my means.
quote:Originally posted by HyacinthB:quote:Don't spend money you haven't got, buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.
Very wise words GJ and it is something we've always lived by.
As Mr Micawber said in David Copperfield :-
'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings and sixpence - result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and sixpence - result misery.'
Well, it was something like that anyway and I've never forgotten how wise that was and I have never lived beyond my means.
Has Pa Broon heard of this Micawber bloke?
He should make him Chancellor.