Lord Sugar must be feeling stupid today. Matthew Parris joins in the fun calling him a “pathetic ninny” for threatening to sue Quentin Letts for calling him stupid. In the Speccie, Toby Young has a letter with a number of signatories telling Sugar to drop it. Well Alan, you’re mired…
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
That didn’t take long. How soon before Sugar ‘resigns’?
What a fucktard Lord Sugar is.
I hope that by the time it reaches court, all the papers will have exploded in criticism of him, so that his patently ludicrous ‘case’ is clear to all.
In the early 80s Sugar was worth the same as Bill Gates. Today Gates is worth billions and Sugar is worth the same as he was worth 25 years ago.
He’s had one or two good ideas in his life but since then he and his businesses have gone absolutely nowhere.
Twat.
He showed Gates the Door, shows you have much foresight and accumen he really has . Brown can have him.
Good ideas like the Amstrad E-mailer-thingy. The only one of those I saw was in an episode of the Apprentice. (hope he dosen’t sue me)
He is indeed
His boiled beetroots were better than the crappy car aerials he sold. Don’t get me started on the lacklustre Amstrad PCs…..
Sorry Sralan. You’re wrong.
Exactly. He wouldn’t have to take jobs on the telly and in the House of Lords if he was doing well.
…….and he wouldn’t have obtained either of those if he hadn’t been a Labour crony
To “sugar is a Hunt”
I do agree, though I’d add ‘midget’ between ‘a’ and ‘Hunt’. However, I’d be quite happy to be called such if one or two good ideas bagged me such untold wealth (okay, not Billy Gates’ untold wealth as you rightly point out but still…..).
So Gorgon Broon in a fit of desperation tried to buy into the popular success of Sugar’s BBC show by giving him a peerage. Sugar, fancying himself a Baron goes along with it for a bit, then legs it like the rest of Broons goats, peerage intact? Why not. Sure money can’t buy something like a lordship….
An inevitable doom seems to pervade everything Liebore do nowadays.
Their recent praise of Rolls Royce, and the subsequent reports that the MoD will ditch the R-R engine (was to be fitted to the new JSF Navy plane), is typically crass. Their attempt to make McBust seem human by hauling the blokey Sugar on board appears equally misplaced.
This is the dog end days of a failed statist government.
They are completely off their rockers. First windturbines and now this bit of nonsense. Don’t they see that by importing they are:
Spending foreign currency
creating british jobs for foreign workers
forgoing the taxes that RR would otherwise pay on this contract
forgoing the taxes that the sub contractors would otherwise pay
making themselves look like hoons.
Your talking about people who believe ‘propety is theft’ remember.
well only if you as a struggling taxpayer own property…………….
New Labia is just a snot stained sock puppet of the EU – they will do whatever the slime in Brussels tells them to do.
All proper tea is theft. That’s why I drink coffee
All puppetry is theft unless it is Thunderbirds or Archie Andrews.
This government has succeeded in implementing its undeclared core policies.
Pinko Cameron may feint one or two illusory steps backwards but nothing he will do will significantly reverse what you describe as statism.
The whole of Parliament has been exposed as irredeemably corrupt. There’s not a jot to choose between all the turds in that sewer.
I think that because Alan Sugar can bully & bluster around his employees, he believes he can do it everywhere, to everyone – he’s wrong it would appear. Also perhaps he isn’t really too bright & therefore thinks his job with McBust makes him important – instead of a public laughing stock.
Completely o/t – you can now generate a Kenyan birth Certificate for yourself – if you want to be like Baz Obama, see:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/08/for-this-seasons-washingtonian-theres-only-one-accessory-worth-getting-your-hands-on-a-kenyan-birth-certificatebut-fear.html
Should I let Gordon know? then he could have a birth certificate like his hero.
you are a bad loser and racist biffo.
GO OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PEACE IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE 09
WAY TO GO!
Engines from China then?
Could the cretinour and repetitive Wardhidge in fact be the sock of Lord Sugar himself?
My god you are clever Charles. Now be a good boy and fuck off
His ego got in the way of his intellect. Often the case with those who have delusions of grandeur.
Or delusions of competence perhaps?
Delusions of stature surely.
Delusions of adequacy
resigns? ….. now that’s an interestign thought. It would leave Brown looking even more gormless (if possible) for choosing the moron Sugar in the first place. What gets me is that the BBC thinks Sugar is some sort of role model for business. Jesus!
He’ll of course be more than happy with his lifelong Lordship, in exchange for a few months’ work propping up the failing Broon the Hoon…
BBC ….. role model …. business.
Well done on getting BBC and business in the one sentence (HIC)
does anyone think he should have been called lord sid james
he does look like him?
Brown & Sugar, made for each other the twats.
Unfortunately for your theory, it turns out Gordoom is more like Mugabe.
Don’t feed the troll.
Oops, he’s gone.
Agree. Once more off topic and totally lacking in substance. This could have been written anytime. It would make just as much sense on the cooking blog Delia Online.
It’s a case of a failed computer game writer trying self-publication.
Troll ignored henceforth.
silly billy
Yes Charles, I can really see how Brown is winning against Cameron – just check the recent Local & EU Election results…. And Brown’s tolerance & patience can really be seen, particularly during the final few PMQs he attended.(Right McBride, how many Nokias has Knobhead smashed over the last couple of days? Oh! Perhaps I’d better order up another gross or two, ready for the newspaper poll results over the summer?)
Keep taking your pills & ask Nursie for a glass of hot milk, that’s a good boy Charlie.
The 16% swing from Lab to Con in Norwich obviously fulfills Broon’s criteria for success then!
Dave must be shitting himself if Broon thinks that is success!
Brown thought a spoonful of Sugar would help the medicine go down
another hoon how many votes did he get ?
Members of the Lords need only one vote, the Prime Ministers. Some democracy.
and how many votes did the prime minster get ?
24278 constituents voted for him. Or are you making some pathetic point about him not being Labour Leader at the last general election?
You do realise the Tories ran the campaign Vote Blair, Get Brown? Do you really think people didn’t know what they were getting when they voted Labour?
Or perhaps you don’t like the idea that there wasn’t an internal Labour Party leadership election. When did the general public have a say in who leads the Labour Party?
Mate, don’t be facetious. I think he’s more saying that Brown bullied his way into the Labour leadership without even allowing a formal leadership election to take place, thoug intimidating other MPs from making up the necessary numbers to sponsor an alternative candidate.
Well, mate, you assume the comment is made by a man and then feel able to interpret the sentiment behind the words? Not very sensible, are you?
If someone can’t raise enough support to stand, then the candidate that can will be elected. Sounds democratic enough to me.
The answer, for the benefit of “The Real Mick” at 16, is none. Blair stated he would serve a full term. And as an avowed ZaNu supporter TRM must have believed him – after all Liebore politicians don’t lie now, do they?
Or is it that Blair is now the “hated ex-comrade Blair” of Private Eye fame? Shades of 1984 when former leaders are airbrushed in as liars where in reality they were believed to the hilt at the time by their fellow traveling socialists.
I’m sure Thatcher intended on serving a full term too. Didn’t stop the Tories giving the country a Prime Minister they never knew they’d get.
Least Major had the balls to go to the country and make his leadership legitmate for all intents and purposes.
Sweaty little socialists with no back bones like Brown and labour where too busy shitting themselves to honour the fair play and un written agreements the great united kingdom generally abides it’s self by.
Err.. yes, Dumbo. 2 years after becoming Prime Minister. Hahaha.
Oh dear Mick, spinning like a little red top again today aren’t you?
Thatcher was ousted after a series of mistaken policies which the conservative party realised were not working.
Blair was forced to step down following years of bickering and overt, confontational behaviour by his Chancellor, who then assumed the party leadership based on nothing more than a claimed promise over a conversation. It speaks volumes of the current Labour Party that no effort was made for a real leadership contest and that no decent debate about the future of the party was undertaken. Resulting in a party void of the spine to recognize the terrible situation it faces and the resolve to do something about it.
How long as Brown had ohhhh even longer you thick shit.
In November 1990 Thatcher was challenged as leader of the Tories, and as PM. There was an election. She lost (by not getting as big a majority as she needed). The process went on and Major was elected. Brown has not faced even a party election, still less with credible opponents.
Never mind about 1984 the other novel Animal Farm is more descriptive even down to hens laying eggs on the Pigs
Elected Lords.
“Sugar, you’re fired!”
piss off you moron.
That doesn’t work. Do not feed the troll. Just ignore.
Is that your word of the day? Maybe once the summer holiday is over and you’re back to school, you could come back and actually post something of substance?
Don’t feed the troll
Where do you steal this shite from?
The guy is pompous beyond words. He will insist that people call him Sir Allen and now Lord Sugar but in truth he is no more than a one trick barrow boy who made good
He insisted on being called Sir Allen rather than Sir Alan? What the hell was wrong with his mind?
is he related to the crook sir allen stanford ?
… a lot of stans here.
Only complete morons pull people up on their typos, but then we already knew you were one Mick.
You’re entitled to your opinion, no matter how ill-thought-out it is. You really think a moron is someone who can spot errors? Where you educated in a barn?
You mean, “Were you educated in a barn” surely?
Shirley Williams has much to answer for.
No, I was asking for the location of said barn.
Makes even less sense.
Were you educated in New Labour’s state education system perchance?
I’m joking, dickwad.
Nice try but backtracking don’t work on here Sunshine.
It’s clear Mick was taking the piss. Anyone with any sense of comedy can see that. Maybe, Charlie’s Minder is a Moron, you were educated under a Tory administration? You could always do night classes.
Yeah mustve been a joke coz I’m pissin mysel larffin here. Who said lefties dont have a sense of humour?
Brouhahaha
BROUHAHAHAHA!
@James R
You weren’t clear in that you didn’t say which Mick was taking the piss.
BTW. Stick to “The Real Mick” handle. Changing IDs is for us pros only. Or go back to “Master Baiter”.
Aww, is lil’ Jonty still here then? Haven’t mummy and daddy cut off his internet allowance yet?
Dip him in sugar and throw him to the Harmans.
Everyone in the know understands that the best way to get the press on side is to bully and hector them. Pick on one and all the others will fall into line. Even better is if you can make some hollow threats of legal action. That really does the trick.
Lord Sugar of Fuckwit just shows that he is the dictionary definition of consummate performer.
The comments to the multiply-signed letter in The Spectator are notably sympathetic to Sir Alan Sugar and critical of Quentin Letts.
There is also a very barbed comment about our blog host.
Perhaps it isn’t only New Labour which has paid trolls who post spoilers before the general readership have their say.
Or perhaps these are New Labour trolls.
Wouldn’t that be strange?
Leave me alone you bastards, I am a midget.
Stop baiting me or I will bite your kneecaps!
I heard from HH that this is “Heightism” She will ban it. BAN, BAN, oh god she is banning. It will be a small but perfectly formed ban.
Not if we hide your heels
Harrriet Hapless in the news today denying she is a “Shrinking Violet ” No one said you were love but perhaps a “deluded spoilt rich aristocratic useless hypocrite” would sum you up.
Unfortunately for that walking bucket of prejudice, it was a woman who invented Credit Default Swaps:
http://www.blogher.com/blame-game-global-financial-collapse-fingers-are-pointing-one-woman-blythe-masters
Blimey, calling someone a “ninny”. Strong words indeed.
Problem is, Sugar will throw a fit over it.
Result! Anything that pisses off the dimunitive knight has got to be good.
Don’t worry, he’s only little so he won’t be able to throw it very far.
When Sugar throws his mobile everyone covers their kneecaps
“Pathetice Ninny ” christ thats strong !
I like his show, it is one of the best comedies on TV, a pack of incompetents fighting over as job working for an arrogant shit.
They should make a Labour party edition to select the next leader.
Harman you’re fired!
Surely in the Apprentice he only gets a choice from a bunch of useless, no mark wankers who can’t cope in the real world. Ahh, sounds ideal for choosing the leader then.
Ollie, you’ve got it! Brown likes Sugar because he fantasises about pointing his finger at Mandelson and saying “You’re fired!”. Brown craves the sucking-up, the fear and the ability to set people ridiculous, impossible tasks and then humiliate them when they fail. Best of all he’d like to be able to edit reality so that it seems that he, Brown, always wins the argument.
He’s made a lot of money. That’s fair enough, good luck to him I say, we do live in a free country. But if you put your head above the parapet, someone’s going to take a shot. Live with it, or disappear into obscurity, you can’t have it both ways, silly arse.
I believe in the States, public figures are legally regarded as fair game, whereas private citizens do have some protection against unwarranted intrusions. Perhaps we should change our libel laws to something along those lines?
didn’t he make his money in the 80′s selling shit products.
Today he makes money selling bullshit
Different products under different governments, but one was had substance and the other one is spin, lies & surprisingly enough bullshit
He’s lost a lot of money and all. Said it before, I’ll say it again: “Emailer? Doh!”
sugar is a wanker sugar is a wanker
La la la la. La la la la. Conga Line!
Sugar was very ill-advised to make those threats.He never struck me as such a precious,sensitive soul.Now everyone knows the whereabouts of his achilles heel.Perhaps it is a symptom of “short man”syndrome.
Another victim of the curse of Brown.We’d never have known had he not fallen for the temptation of office.
a precious,sensitive soul, of course he is. What other sort of wanker of a barrow boy would insist on people calling him Sir Allan or Lord Sugar. What wanker would of a barrow boy would even have time for such a flawed honours syse?
Lord Sugar, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard, fuck me it would be better to ask if there is a money alternative
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t do either go into politics.
Sugar’s entrepreneurial days are over.
I always thought the third line was
“and those who can’t teach ,teach others how to teach”
Think you’re right about Milord’s future though.
Those who can’t politick REGULATE.
In this instance,
Those that can, litigate.
Those that can’t, threaten.
Meanwhile, back in the real world…
Spin that, Trolls…
I meant this!
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23728952-details/Cover-up+denied+after+report+claims+MoD+is+squandering+billions/article.do
One has to question the judgement of Sugar in trying to deploy bully-boy tactics. He can’t win this; whatever the outcome of any l*gal procedings that may or may not happen, he’s going to look a chump.
One also has to question Brown’s judgement in making the appointment. Sugar is a long way from being the best of British business talent; he made some money shifting dodgy mechandise during boom years, then made his fortune in property (for which he deserves some credit for business nous, in fairness). But an industrial or commercial genius? Don’t think so.
That reflects on Brown – appoint a dodgy media bully with an open wallet rather than a relative unknown with proven relevant experience – it’s a microcosm of the whole shambles of a government.
But Brown NEVER forgets and eventually gets the chance to plunge the knife into anyone that tries to make him look stupid.
Don’t you think that Richard Branson is spitting blood and having violent palpitations at the thought of Lord Sugar’s elevation and his cabinet position?
The diference being that Branson has shown himself to be successful at setting up and running several diverse and innovative companies over the years (and fingers crossed his space flights will come down in price in the next few years!).
Sugar, on the other hand, was a failure in the ’80s and is a failure now, relying on a silly TV show for the only publicity he ever gets
No, come on! Amstrad was a successful company from the late 60′s to the early 80′s. If I had created a business as good as that I would have been proud.
Unfortunately Sugar did not know when to call it a day, went into showbiz, and now he has been tricked into politics by McBust.
Budgie I’m a little young to remember past the early ’80s, but everything I ever remember from Amstrad was a piece of crap!
So he failed 25 years ago and is still desparately trying to make up for it now…
Speaking personally I think you’re being a little unfair. The desktop computers they made back in the 80′s were decent enough and made him a lot of money.
The hi-fi systems were tat mind.
It seems to me that Sugar’s action has, by itself, proven the truth of Letts’ opinion, that he is: “… a telly peer who doesn’t seem to have an enormous intellect …”.
Case closed.
well they got rid of one bully mcbride and replace with sugar
If Alan Sugar can’t stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen. He has been more then insulting to the Apprentices, but oddly doesn’t like it when people insult him.
Get used to it Sir Alan, or get out.
What a Carry On?
He should be fired, preferably from a cannon.
Care he might play the anti-semitism card
I thought asset stripping is exactly what Mandleson wanted to do with Royal Mail. The only reason government wanted it was to plunder the pension fund!
Get with it, Charlie.
Do not feed the troll
No, it was because of the EU (EU Directive 97/67/EC ‘Privatisation of Postal Services’ ) that undermines the Royal Mail.
Ah, the dying embers of a failed Government. Delicious and slow motion. I’m beginning to believe the 300days 19 hours 23 minutes remaining to the election will need tons of popcorn!
Yeah, a failed government that was elected three times in a row. Go back to your mansion delusional toryboy.
Yeah, a failed Government that has lied to the population and continues to ignore the mess it has created from the years of opportunity it inherited.
The citizens are waking up now. Crawl back under your stone leftiechild.
Enjoy paying back that 40 million party debt and campainging with a non existant activist base you Labour muppet.
Enjoy at least a deacade or more out of power we won’t miss you.
Yeh a failed government under the leadership of our dear leader Gordon. Gordon fucked up real good, didn’t he? I’ll bet Tony is either having nightmares or laughing his fucking head off, depending on whether he ever cared a stuff about the party
The leader for the three wins was Tony B liar (obviouly the reason for the results (Judical review of the Labour manifesto anyone?)).
There have been one win and three losses under the new management so if not failed, failing?
Liebore only got elected three times by lying to the electorate. Now we have the biggest bust since the 1930s, and the biggest peacetime government debt ever.
SurAlan is the victim of Mandy Brown spin, simple as that.
“Correct Action” – Try it & Piss Off
Wow, what a brilliant comeback. You should write speeches for Camera-on.
Thank you TRM – you’re very kind
the real ira mick is bloody idiot.
you only have to read one of his posts to reach that enlightened realisation.
grass hopper.
o_O?
You appear to have a blown pupil. This is a sign of serious damage to the brain. Please seek medical attention immediately.
Do not feed the troll
He’s posted this one before.
Must be Groundhog Day.
alan sugar.
from a pig you expect a grunt
Insulting Lord Sir Alan Sugar is anti-semitic.
The sun shines out of his arse and Israel’s too. They do nothing wrong and are an example of ethics and morality to all us menial inferior Goym.
Who the fook is Lord Sugar?
Where’s our Freddie when you need him?
Zucker, du bist Jude
It’s as well that Letts doesn’t work for the BBC, since they would have immediately issued a humble apology and forked over the money.
“Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.” – Alan ‘Baron’ Sugar.
Fool
Fool – Charles that is
Everyone else is laughing at a stumpy, insecure man.
What are you doing?
How stupid to you have to be to get involved with Gordon Brown?
Not too stupid when Gordon Brown’s busy signing the cheques for your own company’s contracts with the government at no risk/cost to yourself or to your company.
He’s not a complete idiot; his company’s taking the money that Brown’s dishing out, saying “thanks very much Gordon”
Sugar’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Now, not only has he got the government contracts for his company, he’s also got a nice little title to impress the yanks.
Was the title/job, and/or the government contracts in any way related to the oodles of money that Sugar gave to labour as donations? Perish the thought, of course not, that’d mean corruption, and I’m sure the labour party is completely devoid of that, as is Sugar.
Sugar should have taken a lesson from Ponting. There’s a bloke who can take it on the chin, judging by his view of the Barmy Army.
There, there, pet.
I’m sure you’ll meet a nice girl eventually.
Do not feed the troll mate
You’ve got to admire the lad’s determination, though.
“I don’t like bullshitters, I don’t like schmoozers and I don’t like arselickers.”
Sugar’s own words. Sums himself up nicely, I think.
…I don’t know if I can agree with all of that quote.
Alan Sugar has always struck me as the sort of person who would never admit to being wrong about anything.
Ever.
The closest thing you would get to an apology from him would be a snort.
From his stacked heels to his “is it a beard / isn’t it?” he is a chippy little parody of an East End Geezer.
And Del Boy Trotter knows more about corporate governance than Alan Sugar ever did.
Still, amongst the spivs and wide boys that make up the current government, he should feel well at home.
Thanks Lakelander, your post says it all and has saved me the effort of doing so. The act of the aggressive, if slightly inarticulate, barrow boy is the least appealling aspect of his little show, which I stopped watching after the first couple of series. McBust is easily impressed – or his he just so desperate to introduce something ‘novel’? Either way it will all end in tears.
Did he not once have a fling with Babera Winsor and star in the “Carry on Films” he certainly looks like that geeza with the dirty laugh!
There is a vast difference between the expression of an opinion about someone and a libel.
It is doubtless true that Quentin Letts does not have a high opinion of Alan Sugar, and he is entitled as a journalist to express that view.
Alan Sugar’s subsequent actions indicate that Quentin Letts is completely right and that his low opinion of Sugar is entirely justifiable.
I don’t have a high opinion of Sugar either, his actions show extremely poor judgement.
He should feel Dopey. He does not have a beard and probably would not notice.
Charles – stop referring to Zen.
Your self-appointed one-ness with Zen is giving it a bad name because your obsessive, random comments regarding NuLiebour are so obviously untrue – they contribute very little and are rarely amusing.
Meditate – Charles – Meditate
You must seek the Truth
Another 50 billion funny money being printed out as we speak to prop up Nu Labour’s disaster.
Great Depression and WW3 here we come.
Nah, all Thatcher’s fault. Over to you Charles…
The BBC’s 1 O’clock news on TV has seriously downplayed what QE is, and woah! look at all those other indicators, car sales up fractionally, house prices up fractionally – they PROVE that things are improving and our beloved leader was right.
No mention of what QE is doing to the pound in your pocket (remember that speech from the Labour idiots in the 1960′s? The pound in your pocket is still “worth” one pound ha ha). The currency markets know what it’s all about, and they’ve valued the pound lower than it was right at 12:00pm when more QE was announced.
The UK is up a very big sh1t creek, and it’s all New Labour’s, the BoE, and FSA cronies fault.
Raid savers for money, SAVERS must be made to pay for the feckless and reckless. Raid private pensions, they are easy money.
Yes, and yesterday’s DT Business section was also talking up the few positive pointers as though it’s all over and we are out of the mire. Only we are not, we are very far from out of it – in fact we are in it up to our armpits in a tsunami of debt thanks to the idiocy of our barking PM, whom no one seems to be able to get rid of. By how much do you have to trash the economy before something is done to remove him and his grubby little government? Democracy? Yes please, a GE now, thanks very much.
Curious how house prices appear to have (allegedly) stabilized now that zanu liebore have usurped the role of credit provider and pumped £125bn of QE into the economy – yet it is also stated that the QE is being largely consumed buying up Treasury stock. Not really a contradiction at all, perhaps. I expect the new and unexpected roll of the printing presses will resurrect the house price boom, as known and loved by McSnottie, just in time for the election.
None of this of course on t’WatO (R4). Steph Flanders was put up to explain the BoE action, and did jolly well for an intelligent 9 year old who’s just had a few basic lessons in an exciting new topic called economics. She will rise rapidly in the food chain when she discovers you have talk finance on alja-Beeba in a funny voice.
The question is what the banks are using the new money for, and whether there is political direction of their activities.It seems they are being encouraged to support the mortgage market but are failing to support businesses. It couldn’t possibly be that house prices influence voters more than business failures?
Really simpler than that.
Without QE the govt would have had to find buyers for an extra £125 billion of govt bonds.
Most investors (particularly foreign central banks) would not have touched this with a bargepole without a much higher rate of interest.
I can’t get away from the impression the house price figures are not real – new lending is just at too low a level.
What the banks are using QE for is to rebuild their reserve ratios. Even minor changes in accounting procedures can make the ratios look bad enough that they think they might have to call “fail” (more likely “save me”). Bank failure can be caused simply and easily by adjusting the reserve ratio. It’s a dangerous game, but as long as there is bank to play it on, it’s game on.
Political direction? You must be joking – it’s “steady as she goes”. McDickhead’s “easy touch” regulation will continue, because the scam of OTC derivatives is just too good for the banksters to call a stop to it. The Mugginses (aka voters) will pay for it, just as they have paid in the past. The whole business is too esoteric for the Mugginses to understand that (a) zanu liebore are totally clueless about Big Finance, but at the same time (b) zanu liebore just want to be loved by the BF Giant.
In the USA, Ron Paul’s Bill in Congress to have the FED audited has achieved 64% support in the House. In the UK, the NAO qualifies the current spending accounts of zanu liebore, and we get the soporific idiot Peston meandering on.
We went through change here and I got fired over it.
I think “pathetic little orange kebab vendor” is a more appropriate insult for such an arrogant little turd.
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Is this morse code for wanker?
Fuck off Charles_E_Harδwiδge
what a gobshite
Can you imagine standing next to him in a pub?
Bloody hell!
wotta tosser !!!
Stay away from the Bristol area(according to “Nell”) and you should be safe!!
I know Mandy stays away from the Bristol area!!!
Sorry,TAXI!!
Charles – stop referring to Zen.
‘Change’ is not the stuff of Zen – it is apparent that you do not understand
Your self-appointed one-ness with Zen is giving it a bad name because your obsessive, random comments regarding NuLiebour are so obviously untrue – they contribute very little and are rarely amusing.
Meditate – Charles – Meditate
You must seek the Truth
Show some respect for your betters, you grubby oiks!
You are repeating yourself – is it your age that’s the problem?
Their politics aside, I kinda like Alan Sugar, he is his own man much the same as Michael Winner.
They are often rude, grumpy and outspoken, they don’t suffer fools too easily, and they are often their own worst enemy, and suffer accordingly.
I should imagine Alan would have fertile ground for comment at Westminster considering the incompetent freeloading utter wankers he will find there, no doubt he will tell it like it is even if we don’t hear too much about it, at least I hope so.
I am always happy to see “the media” get a kicking too; after all they really do deserve it!
That’s what I like about Alan he is not selective in his targets.
Good post, Taxfodder.
good rim, mick.
He will not be taken seriously at Westminster. Everybody will know he is going to play at it for a bit and then lose interest.
Mmmm apart from nobody really being taken seriously at Westminster these days, for the most pary I agree, much like his foray into club football with a 40% stake in Tottenham Hotspur.
“….considering the incompetent freeloading utter wankers he will find there.”
Digby Jones, another of the GOATS, found plenty of those and decided that he would never be able to get anywhere while they were there, which is why he jumped ship.
Never mind, the day of reckoning for the jobsworths and time-wasters in the public sector is fast approaching – I’m hoping that DC is planning a wholesale clear-out of these free-loading types who reckon that wealth-generators in the private sector owes them a much better living that they could ever achieve in the big bad world outside. I deeply resent providing them with astronomical salaries inflation-proof pensions when my little business, like thousands of others, is taxed to the hilt to pay for it all.
Profligacy and waste on an industrial scale – one of the few things NuLiebour really excel at.
So long as his ‘targets’ are prepared to pay.
Bank of England just announced yet another 50bn quid to be printed-up. We could be looking at a roaring recovery just in time for the next General Election.
Look where it got us !!!! Wheelbarrow anyone ??
Yup, the printing presses are rolling again. If you listen carefully you can hear inflation ticking up faster and faster. Stand by for some truly awful figures in the next 12-18 months. And it will all be the fault of DC of course…..
Back to the drawing board Charles. Graphics fidelity is old hat. What we need now is political fidelity, not the political infidelity we have.
Definition of fidelity: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fidelity
Fidelity implies the unfailing fulfillment of one’s duties and obligations and strict adherence to vows or promises:
Obviously he is an apprentice Lord and is finding out that public servants have to STAND UP to scrutiny and criticism.
Sorry he is standing up.
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That’s a lot better Charles – keep it up!!
Morse code for “I am a fanny”.
hee hee hee- 137 he make I laugh!
Charles is at it again !
I take it the Ambulance with the Section 135 hasn’t turned up yet
Seek the Truth – Charles – Seek the Truth
Suffering from deja vu again Charlie boy? Surely you can do better than repetitive reposts from your comments on toenail’s blog.
wot a tosser
If Gordon Brown were not a stupid, obdurate man, he would regret appointing Alan Sugar to the government. -If Gordon Brown were not a stupid, obdurate man…
Arise Cur Alan Sugar – you’re stupid you are!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cur
If the UK is on such a wonderful road to recovery and “green shoots” are sprouting all over the place thanks to our “Dear Leader” Brun Dos Il, why is the Bank of England printing another £50 billion taking quatitative easing to £175 billion.
Although some recent coroprate earning estimates have turned slightly up, sales have not moved from declining to “increasing”. The progress we are making is one of “getting less worse”, and granted … that has to happen first before we get to where things are “good”. For now, don’t mix the two … getting less worse is different than getting better, and less worse is economically a lot different than getting better.
No amount of government stimulus packages will work in the long run unless consumers and businesses start spending again.
Brun Dos Il and his compradore, Da Ling keep printing and spending knowing that they will leave an unholy mess for Cameron, in the hope that his tenure may be short and fraught.
Meanwhile the newly printed £50 bilion will be used to buy Government (Gilt) bonds from the banks, who will use the cheap money to rebuild their own balance sheets and not help out with our (personal and business) balance sheets.
Brun Dos Il and Da Ling have become Viv Nicholson and Michael Carroll with our money and we all know how their stories end
That sneer over a murdered child cannot be allowed to pass as mere flamebait. The actual exchange demonstrates who played fast and loose.
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Cameron asked about the “tragic” case and suggested it was “completely unacceptable” that the inquiry into the case is being led by Haringey council’s own director of children’s services.
“Does he agree with me she cannot possibly investigate the failure of her own department?” Mr Cameron asked.
Backbench Labour MPs shouted “shameful” at Mr Cameron, who responded angrily.
He said: “I tell you what’s shameful and that’s trying to shout down someone who is asking reasonable questions about what’s gone wrong.”
Mr Brown accused the Tory leader of “making a party political issue of this”.
Mr Cameron responded by accusing the Prime Minister of a “cheap” remark and repeatedly insisted that Mr Brown withdraw the comment.
He said: “All I ask is that the Prime Minster withdraws his allegation that I was in any way playing party politics.”
The saddest part of the case was that if Cameron had not raised it both Shoesmith and her decrepit bunch of jobsworths would have carried on as normal having self absolved themselves of any blame whatsoever.
Brown and Balls only fully woke up when a media storm ensued after pmq’s.
Cameron was doing the most important item in his job description – the role of holding the government to account.
In a private company the director in charge of such a monumental cockup as to have someone killed when you are taking care of them, would have the choice to either resign or be fired. Why should the public sector be any different?
That would not be allowed now old lad because there is not much left that is British owned eg electricity, water, steel, airports, government appointed companies to run many government agencies, etc. etc. etc …………………..
Lets not feed the troll.
Leave me alone.
I may be small and delicate but I have done more than 59 million of you in this dump.
I am shallow and impressionable, not of great intellect and enjoy bullying others.
So I have said it for you.
What is there left to innovate in the UK, the business climate in the UK is decidedly anti-business, especially small businesses and sole traders. New Labour hate people who can work without the state, so the state has for the past 12 years stuck it’s nose in where it don’t belong.
Meanwhile, in an effort to make more people unemployed and hiring criminals abroad, New Labour come up with wheezes like sending the UK tax records off to India. You know India, that well known country that NEVER sells confidential detail to criminals. Three cheers for New Labour’s favourite outsourcing company – Crapita.
http://tinyurl.com/mwppx5
Taste of Sugar no longer sweet, Caroline Flint as ‘Fit as a butcher’s dog’ and Harriet just can’t shut up, can she?
Cameron’s personality type doesn’t naturally lean towards strategic thinking but more towards gossip. This isn’t just a failure of judgement it’s a gross failure of character, and his type tend to make very poor executives. Teh numberz sez so.
There’s already been rumblings in the Tory party about how the Bullingdon crowd elbowed their way to the top, and a whiff of “grey hairs” telling him what to do behind the scenes. This is less about whether his aspirations to be PM will be fulfilled but whether he’ll have a job after the next election.
Be still, grasshopper.
Brown’s personality type doesn’t naturally lean towards strategic thinking but more towards gossip. This isn’t just a failure of judgement it’s a gross failure of character, and his type tend to make very poor executives. Teh numberz sez so.
There’s already been rumblings in the Labour party about how the ZaNuLabour crowd elbowed their way to the top, and a whiff of “soon-to-unemployed-yes-men” telling Brown what to do behind the scenes. This is less about whether his aspirations to be PM will continue to be fulfilled but whether he’ll have a job after the next election.
Be still, grasshopper.
Sugar you thick Hunt, shit on my face
Presumably this can be overcome by journalists entering into contracts with their editors whereby they are reimbursed the costs if this sort of action takes place. After all the editor has final say over what’s printed.
I thought the round robin letter was pathetic; they shouldn’t be appealing to Sugar’s sense of fair play, he is neither obliged to play fair or play by their rules. Guido joins the establishment; it was only a matter of time.
Their should be more of this type of suing. Public servants who behave badly beyond a mere mistake, and exceed their powers, such as in a recent case where someone was locked up for photographing Plod reversing up a one way street should be sued personally; it would concentrate their minds.
Might Sir Alan become the new Maxwell?
Note to Sir Alan, or, more pertinently, his legal team: This question is posed entirely in respect of any propensity you may exhibit to sue those in the media whom you consider to have wronged you in some way or other, and is not to be interpreted as a suggestion that you are in any way dishonest, fat, a toady to undemocratic despots prone to masquerade as popular leaders, are named after a jar of coffee or that you cannot tell where a boat stops and the sea begins.
Cassetteboy takes it to Baron Sugar … enjoy
Thanks. It made me laugh out loud.
In a way, I think it tells the truth about Alan Sugar.
Excellent R&W, I’m still laughing.
Most amusing! I wish I could edit stuff that tightly.
Today is the first occasion that I have encountered THE REAL MICK .
Is he another escapee from a secure institution ?
Boasting about winning 3 elections when led by the conman Blair is a sure sign of mental deficiency .
The consequence of wiinning 3 elections is consignment to oblivion– previous Labour governments were not in office long enough to demonstrate the full extent of socialist corruption,ineptitude and nastiness.
This government has made up for that– Well done Gordon .
Has Sugar never heard of the truth defence to accusations of li.bel?
Hmm – seems that the Jury is split when it comes to public opinion and the Letts / Sugar spat. Letts hasn’t quite got the volley of support that you suggest Guido?
Humbug! Kindly cruise over to The Speccer Coffee House and peruse the clamour for a Letts fighting fund!
Any organisation generates error. What degree a minister is responsible for or how guilty they are of covering up is a thing for proper discussion. But, a lot of error is just the price of existing and many errors get picked up by other mechanisms in the system. The two leakworthy examples I’ve given from personal experience reflect that.
It’s easy to make claims (we could do better and YOU’RE TEH SUCK) but execution is hard and there’s always someone after a slice of your ass. A lot of politicans, like businessmen, are driven to go into it because they think they can do better and, sometimes, they get sucked into things they probably shouldn’t.
Be still, grasshopper.
Any organisation generates error. What degree a minister is responsible for or how guilty they are of covering up is a thing for proper discussion. But, a lot of error is just the price of existing and many errors get picked up by other mechanisms in the system. The two leakworthy examples I’ve given from personal experience reflect that.
Be still, grasshopper.
Sugar in the morning,sugar in the evening,sugar at supper time………………………………….any suggestions for a rewrite on verses?
Oh he’s stupid alright. Amstrad Emailer phone anyone? Total retard.
Oh Alan please have your mouthpiece send my writ to
Gordon Clown,
10 Downing Street
London
and once more ‘Alan your a complete idiot’.
When I go for a shit I don’t call it that. I say “I’ve just been for a good Amstrad”
Please note that attemtping to flush amstrad e-mail phones, stereos or PCs down a toilet could result in a severe blockage, as sewers are not designed to take this much shit in one go.
I popularised the term “governance” and it’s interesting seeing how it’s gone around and stuck.
For the folks railing against dictatorship versus democracy, secrets versus openess, it’s an interesting focus to begin asking “What do we do?” and “What do you want?” rather than getting bogged down in implementation details and personalities. There’s an element of spin in that position but, really, does anyone care and does it matter? *shrug* Dunno. You tell me, Sherlock.
Be still, grasshopper.
As you have “popularised” so many things, Charles, I wonder why it isn’t you at No. 10 instead of Gordon.
You come across as being far superior.
I have never read such a load of old bollocks in all my life.
(Well not since your previous post anyway)
Brown has now become shit with sugar on!!!
Very tasty.
I have but haven’t read J K Rowling’s books, but have watched the movies. Her donation to Labour was a masterstroke, and her stories contain a lot of strategy. Understanding strategy is key to success, self-development, and so forth. They’re a useful study for any aspiring General, CEO, or President.
Be still, grasshopper.
Her donation gave me a very good reason never to let her crappy books or films anywhere near my kids.
#191 – Hardmong – Harry Potter is much like Labour, it’s all one big work of fiction. Rowling’s got far more money than sense, and she’s Scottish, which makes it unsurprising. Silly moo.
my stereos were fucking great so bugger off.
just like my sky + boxes that never breakdown.
you are all jealous.
Fucking imposter! Fuck off!!
Has a fighting fund already been set up for Quentin Letts? If not, how can we start one?
Innit bluddy fair, eh? Yeah, I ‘ave got the ‘ump, because all these posh geezers, these Lord Snootys, these toffs from Eton and what ‘ave yer, are taking the mick bigtime.
What they don’t realise is that I was grafting on the streets, selling a load of old tat from the back of a van, when they were still being fed by their nannies from a silver bleedin’ spoon, innit?
Everything I’ve got, is through hard graft. Who else could have created such a plug-ugly creation as an e-mail phone, and still managed to flog it to the wonderful public. I could sell shit to a sewage worker, me.
But you don’t get to the top wivaht makin’ enemies, innit me old flower? Lor’ luvaduck, any old iron, shuttit, sort it, under-neaf’ the arrrches……knees up muvva brahhhn……oy! you! poncy looking bloke! Where’s me jellied eels, innit? Oh, sorry Gordon, didn’t realise it was you…
I had a hi-fi from Amstrad, once. Note I say once.
What a trauma. Never mind, (puts on Patricia Hewitt voice) it’s something that you must come to terms with. I’m sure there’s a self help group out there somewhere.
Did you have to take it back within the guarantee period?
When I look up from the gutter to the Lords and the likes of Sugar and Mandelson I thank God for the gutter.
“sticks an stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me”
alan sugar-repeat 1000x please
Gordon is not exactly a good judge of characters, especially his own. We don’t want you!
McMoron does not like being criticised either!
Sir Sugar is one thin skinned little motherfucker isn’t he? When his “elevation” to the peerage was announced (good job he’d already got the shoes), I heard Lord Haskins on the radio basically say he was a twat. I don’t much like Haskins, but at least he has run Northern Foods, a proper company, not a business run out of a lock-up down the Commercial Road.
I do recall a couple of times on The Apprentice, Siralan would puff himself up to his full five foor one and announce to the cannon fodder that he was off to lunch with the Prime Minister. Anyone who can eat and hold down food in the presence of Grim Gordon the Gurning Gulper shouldn’t advertise the fact.
I must say, though, that I hope this goes to court. Lord Shortarse will end up skewered by his own stupidity, much like Dirty Desmond, who got butt raped for the world to see by Tom Bower. Maybe Lord Shitstereo will be Bower’s next subject. that’s a book I’d like to read.
Toby Young writing on his own experience of this sort of action at Index on Censorship
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/08/libel-lord-sugar-gets-litigious/
Perhaps Siralan should take an IQ test and publish the results.
We would then know if Quentin was right or not.
Every time gordon does this he just devalues the title. Sugar like many have done nothing to deserve a peerage except make crappy pcs and worse TV shows….oh and really shitty HiFis a while ago.
We should just laugh at him if we see him.
I would not have known of QL’s comments had not Lord Sugar sought to publicise them. If someone calls me stupid, I keep quiet about it and then it soon passes over. Why give publicity to your detractors?
…because he really is stupid.
Lord Sugar Lump – the ugly face of Labour politics (apart from Cruella deVille/ Harpyperson, that is)……
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Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.
Politics of the playground.
My first visit to this site and my last.
I’ll leave you miscreants to scratch each others eyes out.
Handbags at five paces. Thinking of more “naughty” comments, yawn!
Do something useful with your lives for goodness sake.
Bluebell, you must be quiet for most of the time then…
The best recent examples of playground politics have been given to us by Gordon Brown . He has never stopped his infantile rantings about all other political parties . £10 to £1 says that John Green is a New Labour voter now thoroughly ashamed of ever supporting such a collection of corrupt gangsters now led by the total fraud Brown .
Changing the subject for a moment, I was investigating Mark Oatens new book, on why he decided to hurl himself into lusty sex with young Brazilian rent booys. It was very amusing, given that he beleives he was possessed and led into such actions by demons. I have also learnt about Cleveland Steamers, and although Jonathan Aitkens has reintroduced himself as a reformed liar and sinner, I’m not sure Oaten will get sold out receptions when he comes to describe his interest in Cleveland Steamers.
Very Very amusing and surely people like Oaten, or should that be Eaten, Simmons, Sugar etc are the reason we are starting to detest our politicians.
Keep steaming Mark!
Sugar suffers from a bad case of “short man” syndrome.
Luckily he is also a first degree fuckwit and will find that the Streisand Effect will make him rue the day he threatened Quentin.
The mail order advertisement ‘appear 2 inches taller instantly’ was of course made for him, in fact it even sounds like an Amstrad product, utter crap.
Arise Lord Hunt of Huntchester
So – to resolve it once and for all – and to make Sugar look even more of a jumped up dwarf prick, why dont all the other journos plus blogs plus whatever else repeat QL’s words exactly – surely Sugar and his no win no fee solicitors will stop sending letters to every single journalist and/or magazine/paper/radio station – either when he runs out of money or realises that in his new job as court jester he will have the piss taken out of him.
So, Sir Baron Sugar of Clapton – you are a “telly peer” and “you don’t seem to have an enormous intellect” – and I talked to my friend Mandy in Corfu and he said the same about you – and that he likes a bit of East End rough….