brown must be believing everything he sees on TV. first he's phoning simon cowell, then he believes that Alan Sugar runs a successful company. he might talk a good game but his money came from a rising property market rather than successful products.

any why is sugar pinning his colours to a sinking ship? i suppose once you get the lordship then all is well.

I don't ever remember hearing of anyone getting back ONTO the Titantic as it sunk beneath the waves. Isn't Sir Alan brave?

Mind you, a fiver says that David Cameron makes some dig at Brown in Parliament calling for an election "so that the British people can tell you: 'You're Fired!'"

in 2000?

That's blown Alan Sugar's street cred!

Shurely only a complete utter idiot would appoint that hairy fat lump of lard to any position more responsible than being nasty to masochistic reality TV dupes.

I for one am glad she went - not only for her political inabilities but the fact I was actually scared by her nose.

I wonder if a FOI request to find out what happened to it would work...

Amstrad were possibly the worst manufacturer of computers in the 80s.

I cant also recall the number of rusty amstrad satellite dishses stuck to peoples houses.

Their set top boxes are terribly bug-ridden and everything they make feels like cheap crap.

Sugar himself is a big tosser. Sure he made it rich, but he's a nob. Like ramsey. I would not want to work for him even if he made me a millionaire in a day. Look at me prancing around in my roller... im ere cos i know everything.

Courtesy of wikipedia:

Bullying

Critics have described Sugar as "out-of-touch" and his work ethic as "a model of bad management in the UK. Negative, bullying and narrow-minded... (Sugar) rules by fear."[43] Concerns have been raised by anti-bullying charity Kidscape that "publicly humiliating" contestants on The Apprentice may give bullying credibility.[

Yep. 100% he's a dick. He rules by intimidation and fear. One day, he's going to get a nice big off-camera slap.

Evil jobbs cos well sugar is just more evil.

... the Tsarship "Enterprise" ?

Beam me up, Scotty Brown...

Mines the one with the Tricorder in the pocket.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05130.pdf

...we should no longer refer to Surralan but (in best Dick Van Dyke cockney) Lorblimeyalan!

new theme tune anyone?

He's a dishonest Gerald Ratner

You forgot Simon Cowell as Culture Secretary ...

too many people have already been unable to tell the difference between sound business management and televisual light entertainment, now that confusion has spread to central Government.

Being Knighted does indeed make you a Sir... It doesn't make you a Lord, this article was about him being "Upgraded" to Lord Sugar!

He may not be everyone's favourite electronics overlord but give the guy a break, he's a smart cookie.

He was brought up in a council flat and within 20 years of starting his business, it was worth £1.2 billion.

I was brought up in a council flat too and my business is worth diddley-fucking-squat.

If I ever met him I would like to thank him for the Speccy+3. It might not have been the greatest computer on the planet but with a multiface3, you could save any game you liked to disk. Just think: JetPac, Attic Attack etc loading in about 3 seconds (compared to 3 minutes from tape). It was all that made 128k speccy games viable - who wants to wait 10 minutes for the fucker to load every time? Genius.

I'm not sure why he deserves a Lordship but let's face it, if Lewis fucking Moonie deserves one then I'm pretty sure we all deserve one, even Harold Shipman.

During the worst recession in decades when unemployment is rapidly rising what better way to show how in touch you are than by bringing into government a guy famous for firing people on TV.

I don't know what all the fuss is about. AMS is an overpaid, limelight-seeking, has-been who has demonstrated a consistent lack of business competence over the last few years. He'll fit perfectly into this shambles of a government, and be just as effective as Enterprise Tsar (whatever that means. Hint: not much) as Gordon has been as prime minister.

Graham Norton as Chief Whip.

Susan Boyle to replace Harriet Harperson as Minister for Women.

Gordon Ramsay as Minister for School Meals as Jamie Oliver is promoted to Chancellor to cook the books.

Any other suggestions?

"'I'm not sure why he deserves a Lordship but let's face it, if Lewis fucking Moonie deserves one then I'm pretty sure we all deserve one, even Harold Shipman."

All in favour of giving old Harold here a lordship?

What with his services to the country and all?

(The way things are going, hello obligatory gas chamber visits for anyone over retirement age, etc, etc...)

"I would not want to work for him even if he made me a millionaire in a day."

Bullsh1t

You'd suck him off in a dark alley for a million quid and you know it.

Paris, cos she can do that to me any day.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZI9ZC-oL5KQ/SikZusDgcWI/AAAAAAAAE5Y/7jUr2qUZvZM/s1600-h/sugarletter.jpg

What a dickhead.

Yeah, he's a technical genius, not some knob who just rebadges somebody elses crap and flogs it on for a premium </sarcasm>

Alan Sugar is not worth respecting, the only thing he's achieved is an accumulation of wealth of the back of other people, his business 'tactic' of bullying and threats is sure to be worth something to the govt.

You couldn't make it up. What's next, mr. Pink for home secretary?

We used to have what was knowable as a Government. The abandonment of managing the country by people too busy managing tabloid headlines to do this has made the whole enterprise of government indistinguishable from light entertainment.

Not so funny when the latest communication of multiple and manifest errors and mismanagement is dumped through my doorstep by the Inland Revenue yesterday, whose systems collapsed long ago due to ill-considered initiatives and management by this bunch of soundbite artists, and I have to try to sort out the mess just enough not to be wrongfully sued. How many appeal spanners can be thrown into their dying systems causing how many years of delay preventing any of these ever being heard before we are all long dead and buried ?

Amstrads sucess selling cheap tat that only just met the products spec's, made in china or the philipines by slave labour. the reliability was dubious and the only thing that made the dixons group any real money was getting into bed with sky.

The old speccy mk3 was rubbish as well, he got all the kiddy home pc fanbois to do all the styling and design in the monthly computer mags back in the early 80's then bought up Sinclair which was already on the rocks, then gutted the speccy and shoved the rotting remains inside a green block and sold it as the spectrum +3.

if he got into power we'd all be in serious trouble, cos he'd fire everyone

(for some Gov employees this could be seen a a good thing considering how many are not fit to hold the jobs they are in atm)

Dont forget his favourite trick,

He employs a high ranking specialist for business markets that he has no knowledge in, sucks all thier contacts up, sucks up all the knowledge base they have then dumps them on thier ass on the street, without so much as a thankyou......

Gordy you have been warned......

Your Fired.!

What the fuck does he know about winning?

that Brown hasn't got an Amstrad E-m@iler

You honestly believe that everyone keeps score by the millions? I don't view 800 million as an achievement I view it as an obsession.

"Last I looked Sir Alan was worth about 800 mill, with his fingers in many different pies." But is he Big in Clouds? For is that not where IT is @ ? ....... for AIVirtual Remote Governance Network InterNetworking....... Via Glens with Shady Channels and Ancient Hidden Secret Paths.

It is certainly AIMiracle the Government Needs.

Bombes away, Sir Alan..... Incoming ProgramMING.