Video Credit : The Crown
UPDATE : Sugar has just told Marr that he will be a Labour peer. If he takes the Labour whip, and proselytises for them, surely that is incompatible with him having a prime-time television show? Oh, this is the BBC…
UPDATE II : Congratulations to Sugar on winning that £30 million contract to supply computers to the Office of Government Commerce last month. Handy when your property portfolio has taken a huge battering…
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Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Happy days.
Bluddy happy. Sugar is so much the Englishman of today, it’s ridiculous that there aren’t many more of his type in ther HoL.
What a pair of hoons
Sugar isn’t ENGLISH – he’s from a very different tribe!
Sugar has just said on Sky that he doesn’t know what it means ‘to take the Government whip’. If he is that stupid what is he doing in the HoL ?
pathetic
the usual classy stuff from a fuckwit and a spode
a vile stench mcpoison would love sadly infests this blog at times
The big problem is that Sugar, as he amply demonstrated with Spurs, is single-mindedly a businessman and a trader. Unfortunately bringing a real businessman into politics is not going to work, as I am sure we all know. I think AMS will last about 1 month before he realises how truly unpleasant politics really is and resign. That way apprentices from now on will have to say “Thank you Lord Whitechapel” when they leave.
This is about practices displacing other practice for example the use of accounting/production targets being used in health care.
It won’t work until you make the patient the customer of the health service.
If you want service it means getting rid of the NHS.
ah yes, Alan Sugar. The onlt man who I like less than Brown
Hilarious.
I love Alan Sugar but I doubt if he can add anything positive to this sorry pile of shite government.
“Brown Sugar” … a Rolling Stones hit in 1981! Unlikely to feature in the charts nowadays. Can Sir Alan not remember what’s happened to various other Czars such as Hellawell?
Get rid of the pair of twats
Second that, and oh, how we are so desperatly trying.
Mc Doom really can not take a hint can he?
What part of ‘ fuck off ‘ can he not understand !
The inverted commas
I used to think Sugar was Okay. But seeing him support Johah one has to question his state of mind as well.
His judgement is fundamentally flawed if he backs Jonah and his cabal.
You can tell his judgement is flawed by just looking at the goons he ends up picking as his apprentice year in and year out.
Margeret and Nick are obviously the real brains and trousers in the Sugar outfit.
Methinks something very smelly here. A hard nosed businessman supporting someone who just upped his tax bill by 20% from next year (if he pays any tax at all of course…shame the rest of us don’t have the option)
We all know that call me Dave would have had Sugar in the Shadow Cabinet in a heartbeat if he could but tempt him. What was Zack Goldsmith if not a blatant piece of greenwash PR ?
And Guido helpfuly reminds us that a certain Andy Coulson is spin doctor in chief for Cameron. Former News of the World Editor Coulson. Royal phone-tapping scandal hack in chief Andy Coulson
Oh but we despise Mandy for his slimy ways but we must cough and look the other way because Coulson is Dave’s new pet.
I just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.
Amusing harrumphing going on here though.
His Judgement is sound. Although I would guess its very dishonest. With a peerage plus lots of future Government contracts, he will (just like Murdoch has done with the media) have far more leverage to channel business his way. Just follow the money and it all makes sense.
I would imagine Brown along with many others in public office have benefited from very large undisclosed back handers from Sugar. So Sugar can use all of that to make himself untouchable. Its a magnificent result for the nasty Mr Sugar. Plus a pathetic effort by Brown to fill his back pockets as much as he can before the idiot is kicked out.
Brown, instead of doing what we pay him for, will now be on the phone all day to other business leaders offering peerages for cash. Which will now be his daily work ethic, until he is removed from office. Payment will be cash that we will never be privy to see in any accounts. Most of this Cash will be in the form of barter as in seats on the boards of companies etc. etc.
Brilliant! makes up for the shite weather(which started in america).
A big cloud did it and ran awae.
Nice work.
My blood is beginning to boil; This video hits the reality of the situation. Remember, remember the…that Bush’s image made america a laughing stock.
Enuff is enuff. Good video though. This will go viral, unfortunately but if it does good then so be it
Tory party broadcast!
Sugar on Marr this morning was laughable. He’s just interested in helping small and medium businesses; he’s apolitcal, unsure whether he’s going to be a Labour peer and is only going to be carrying on doing what he;s been doing for 10 years.
So why is he getting a peerage?
I thik he is only just starting to realise that he has stepped into a bucket of shit and is sinking fast. LOL
Alan Sugar is due lot of respect for coming up from a Barra’ boy background to become a multimillionaire without apparently murdering anyone.
I suspect he feels an obligation to the labour government for the knighthood they gave him in 2000, and now they are offering him a peerage- very hard carrot to resist for any punter.
I say Go for it Sir Alan.
Gordo will be gone soon and you wil still have your peerage regardless- when you look at all the tossers in the house of lords- Sugar has to be one of the more deserving.
LORDALAN: Jesus wept!
He reminded me of Sid James this morning, except of course that Sid was likeable
Sugar will be mired in the mud of bureaucracy. Think: Digby-Jones.
Yes, both Digby and Jones found out the hard way.
You mean they’re the same bloke? I thought there were two of them. At least that’s what the speak-your-weight machine said: “One of you will have to get off.”
I’ve always thought Digby-Jones was one rather large person. I saw him in a lift once at the theatre in Birmingham. Luckily it was a lift for 10 people and there were only 6 of us in there. He didn’t last long in the government did he?
thats great lmfao
Brilliant! Something to keep me going until the Euro results come in later on today.
Brown being LOUDLY booed AT the D-Day commemoration
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8087302.stm
What they were actually shouting was browns a queen.
It’s like to shake the hand of the guy who yelled “Pipsqueak!”
I want this as the startup screen on my phone – and I’ll power cycle it all day long.
They weren’t booing sir, they were saying Boo-urns, Boo-urns.
I thought that Alan Sugar looked a bit worried to be seen as too close an ally of Gordon Brown.
Very Funny
A work of significant genius
SHAUN WOODWARD, the richest member of the cabinet, avoided a capital gains tax bill of up to £1.5m on one of his London homes.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446407.ece
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How typical of Labour Ministers to fuck us for cash. No class at all the chavvy slags.
Give us Moats! Give us Duck Islands! Give us self diagnosed obsessive compulsive crystal grapefruit bowls.
If you going to fuck us at least do us the favour of entertaining us whilst you are doing it.
That is an absolute insult – they are pathologically incapable of admitting theft when they are caught out – just like kids.
It’s an insult to those who do suffer from OCD.
Labour MP Kaufman should be permamently removed from the Trough and made to vomit up all his excesses.
Mandy on Marr: black arts public seminar
Re:my link aboveI can only hear one ‘where’s the Queen’ shout.Not ‘calls’.I can here ‘out,out’.How can the BBC say why many people are booing from one shout?
That’s a Pravda rebuttal for you.
“Brown booed”, “They’re angry about the Queen”, “Nothing to see here”, “Move along”.
Marr pretending to wheedle something out of Mandelson.
What a pair of Hoons.
Peter Mandelson steadfastly refusing to 100% deny that he wrote the words quoted in the Mail whilst appearing to do so. Andrew Marr is trying to push Peter Mandelson but Peter Mandelson has a script and is going to follow it. Andrew Marr should terminate the interview unless Peter Mandelson answers a question.
Marr knows better than that – the “Dark Lord” controls all – his faithful “Death Eaters” are in every institution in the realm incl the famously “impartial” BBC – Labour’s Broadcaster of Choice
So if everyone in the country who wanted him to leave wrote the bunkermeister a letter, would he reply to them all personally?
How long would it take him?
Would it worth the taxpayers money for the reply, or the fact that whilst he was writing the replies he couldn’t do anything else?
Waste of time – Brown would simply say that you don’t walk away from doing what is right for the British People and that they have not seen the results yet of his “great financial works” and when they do they will fall down on their knees in stunned acclamation of his fiscal brilliance
GOVERNMENT ATTACKS UK SHAREHOLDERS FOR INACTIVITY
http://financialadvice.co.uk/news/5/investments/10863/Government-attacks-UK-shareholders-for-inactivity.html
“The UK government has today come out fighting as the blame game begins with regards to high-risk companies in the UK which have brought the economy down. The government has suggested that the various institutional shareholder associations in the UK have failed to monitor and react to boardroom decisions which in hindsight were high risk and potentially fatal to many companies.
However, a number of shareholder associations have today suggested that the government was the one which took its eye off the ball and let many UK banks expand into markets in which they had little or no experience …………..”
It was governments that regulated all that extra credit into existence. Regualtion was the cause of the bubble and it’s inevitable pop.
How long would it take him to reply? Until June 4th 2010 that’s how long.
He already has “important work to do” and a “job to get on with”. Let’s not give him anymore excuses to stick around.
Send for more crayons…
Watching Marr now.
Mandy looks like a man who really doesn’t want to talk about the sole reason he’ll have been asked on the show and just deliver an on target message instead.
And he has no idea what the public want – seems to be wearing his rose tinted glasses with his hearing aid turned off.
Oh, and lol’d at Mandy’s description of Gordo as a man “calm under pressure”. Several printers, nokias and cabinet members disagree.
As for “policies will solve all issues public have” – excellent idea. Give them us in a manifesto and we’ll all have a vote
Marr even smirking during Mandy’s “answers” (scripted statements). Excellent.
Anyone going through the Lab soundbite “tick list” that came out yesterday – how’s Mandy doing?
This is car crash tv. It’s awful but I can’t stop watching
Mandy on Marr.
I can’t watch.
1st Minister?
Great Britain?
Great f..in blo..dy joke.
It was left to the veterans to boo.
The only ones with any courage left.
Shame on all of us.
I just wish those vets we saw shaking hands with the mental case after the speeches etc, would have turned their backs on him and refused to greet him. THAT would have been a very powerful message.
Part of the price for Lord Handlebum saving Broon was Sugar’s place in the Lords. What is it between Mephistopheles and Sugar?
I’m not surprised Sugar is uncomfortable being too close to Brown; he’s not close to him and he’s not interested in ‘small and medium sized businesses’, but he is interested in getting a peerage. Again why would Mandleson (my spellcheck wants to call him Lord Manhandle, which seems appropriate) get him one?
> What is it between Mephistopheles and Sugar?
Cash?
Freemasons???
Mandy seems to be friends with alot of very rich and very powerful people.
> What is it between Mephistopheles and Sugar?
We’re not allowed to say.
Who will have the task of showing Brown his “Obama Beach ” moment
You’ve got to hand it to Marr. He’s the consumate professional when it comes to appearing to press Nulab interviewees whilst giving them the opportunity to trot out the party line. Surely no-one is buying Marr’s faux aggressive stance.
It would be correct from now on to refer to our Beloved & Divine Leader as “Dibbitts” … an ancient term for Shit .. with Sugar on …
Reminds me of John Nott being interviewed by Robin Day, except without the incisiveness of Day.
‘Here today, gone tomorrow’ – if only!
His barracking of Marr – “next”, short non-answer, “next” shows the total lack of respect he has for the jug-eared one, but by extension for all of us.
Bastard.
When is Bono going to be Minister for Culture?
Johnson on later? Are Lab trying to get every possible mouthpiece on the media before the EU results are out, thus meaning in interests of “party fairness” Lib + the Cons get more mouthpiece airtime after the results are out (which Lab wd have to prefer)
I don t agree. By the time of the next series Labour will be out of power for a generation so there’s no conflict
Handles-Bum said ‘next’? If he said it to me i’d get up and punch the creep.
Ha ha ha – all you need to do is get it on the BBC ….
5th May 2009
Viglen, the UK PC maker, has won a Office of Government Commerce contract worth up to £30m to supply public sector organisations with 70,000 PCs. Its chairman, Sir Alan Sugar, is very pleased indeed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/05/viglen_public_sector_contract/
[Lord Sugar] who is going to land a peerage but will not be a minister has also given Labour more than £1million in donations.
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2009/06/sir-alan-sugar-now-lord-who-has-donated.html
I smell a bacon sandwich. Amstrad and Viglen computers were useless. Expect a rapid turnover in replacements next year.
The one and only benefit of sharia law in this country would be Mandy would never be allowed to take power or take office in this land.
Does Sir Alan make those RUBBISH ACER LAPTOPS??
Acer is a multinational. Next question. It would appear that Viglen specialises in selling stuff to the British taxpayer. It is surprising that in such a highly competitive international business (boxing up components designed and manufactured by very clever people where discounts are negotiated on the basis of mega-volume) that a local outfit can compete on price for volume orders.
PS Does anyone know how well Lord Sugar of Barrow’s property empire is thriving while many major property companies are fighting the red ink?
You can’t make shit taste good by putting sugar on it.
But it will make you fat.
If Sugar is just going to be an advisor he doesn’t need to be a peer. We’ve gone from loans for lordships and cash for coronents to peerages for publicity.
The Jew midget told craven, biased Marr he wasn’t going to be a working peer!
What a wank stain, learn a bit about your new job requirements little barrow boy.
Surely this is a test for the Biased Brownite Corporation, they will expose their craven bias if they allow the midget Jew to remain on his appalling show.
I don’t hold back with my slagging off of Brown on this site – and I don’t agree with the Sugar appointment – but your phrase ‘midget jew’ oversteps the mark here.
Sugar is just a Labour stooge.
Dear Gordon
Pass £30M to me and I’ll shore your reputation up on my blog, honest!
I’m not proud.
Ampers.
A spoonful of Sugar helps the medicine go down…
SuperCaliFragilisticMPsExpensesAreAttrocious
It says something about the judgment of Sugar if he really thinks Broon is a safe pair of hands. Sugar is either deluded, stupid, or an opportunist.
I can’t even be arsed to watch the final of The Apprentice, fuck him, if he wants to suck up to NuLabour he shouldn’t be presenting BBC programmes. Oh, sorry, I forgot, the BBC IS NuLabour.
Sir Alan is a hard nosed, aggressive, self made business. Sure, he made his fortune marketing crap, but he did it well. I have the greatest respect for his achievements, I just don’t like his arrogance or manner.
However, his support for this failing, incompetent Labour party, beggars belief. The only possible explanation is a government contract or two, his knighthood and the promised peerage. Sir Alan is far too cunning to p[ay for one…..
Truly he is the UK’s Steve Jobs.
We are missing a trick here. Government has been adopting business practices for three decades. We need to make the next leap and outsource the government. Not to the EU. I am sure Alan Sugar and Digby Jones given a free hand would have everything running like clockwork with 5 fives. No silly party politics were tiny incestuous organisations dictate the lives of millions. We keep the Queen, we keep out culture etc.
Michael Dell of Dell Computers wrote that in his early days when he was
starting out to build his company he met a mouthy bloke (Sugar) at a meeting in London.
Sugar proceeded to tell Dell that Dell’s business model was flawed and he,
Dell would never be successful selling computers.
Now, many years later the size of Sugars companies are pathetically small
compared to Dell.
Yes, Sugar is very sharp , but only when playing silly buggers on television.
What was it Gordon was saying about making money out of the recession?
Alan Sugar. Is that the businessman who had a company valued at 1.2 billion GBP, and was so successful that he sold it a couple of years ago for 125 million?
Q: How do you make a small fortune?
A: Start with a large one and give it to Alan Sugar.
Guido,
Google “Brown’s sugars” and his time as Student Fuhrer at Edinburgh Uni. Here’s a hint – anyone find the picture ( the BBC suddenly made them very hard to find ).
No wonder he wanted Caroline Flint as window dressing ….
Oh hold on here they are …
BBC and Sky are only banging on about his tv show being the conflict of interest. What about his multi-million pound contracts between his own company and the government? Is that not as important as spending time out on a fucking telly program?
So the corruption continues then. This need sto be highlighted in the MSM. There won’t be a whisper of it on Pravda though.
Viglen have just won the contract to supply most PCs and notebooks to a number of London Local Authorities. Replacing Dell and others there. Must be part of the same contract?!?!
Viglen? Their stuff is shit!
Absolutely. That’s possibly why my Government department have got phones by Nortel. I wonder what happened to that company?
I wouldn’t smoke it man!
The BBC is moderating-out all blog entries which mention sugar’s true conflicts of interests, trying to spin that the only conflict of interest is the fact that he’s on the telly a lot.
bastards
So, Alan Sugar is apolitical, is he ?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/21/alan_sugar_gives_labour/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article788726.ece
http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2436
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1392428/Sugar-gave-200000-to-Labour-on-day-firm-won-Government-endorsement.html
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/30482/The-Apprentices-Sir-Alan-Sugar-backs-Gordon-Brown-after-his-warning-to-Britain-during-the-Labour-Party-Conference.html
The twat is only out for himself. He’s claiming to be apolitical, to try and protect himself, when the Tories take power. He knows that he’s on a hiding to nothing if he’s seen to be too openly Labour lackeying.
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BAQK IN THE OLDEN DAYS, SHUGGA STARTED A SWEATSHOP
ASSEMBLING CHEAP COMPONENTS FROM INDONESIA
INTO TATTY AMSTRAD PRODUCTS
HE PLACED THEM ON SALE OR RETURN WITH RETAILERS,
ON THE BASIS THAT THE SHELF~PRICE
MEANT THEY COULD UNDERCUT BRITISH MADE PRODUCTS
AND RETAIN A HIGHER GROSS PROFIT MARGIN PER UNIT
THAT IS HAO HE MADE HIS MONEY
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The only good thing that Alan Sugar could do is to say to Gordon Brown:
“You’re fired!”
Is the P.M. going to listen to Lord Arthur Spoonful of Artificial Sweetener of Anger Court?
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SHUGGA IS A NOTHING AND A NOBODY
A CHEAPSKATE WITH A BIG MOUTH AND A SHORT STUBBY INDEX FINGER
A PLAICE FOR EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN ITS* PLAICE