Gordon Brown Does The Apprentice
LEE McQueen has won The Apprentice TV show, and with his dream office job in Brentwood comes the “fury”.
Fury is how tabloid readers react to just about anything from the Madeleine McCann saga to Coronation Street being moved to Thursday nights to make way for the football.
Today’s fury is being directed at “the decision to award a £100,000 job in this year’s The Apprentice to a salesman who lied on his CV”.
McQueen claimed to have studied at Thames Valley University for two years, but in reality he remained on a course for a mere four months. He might have learned it all in that time, but this is not the point.
Such is the fury that the Mail says “even the Prime Minister” has weighed into the outcry in the “business community”. Yeah, even Arctic Monkeys fan Gordon. Next he’ll be cosying up to the McCanns and humming the theme song to children’s TV shows.
Says Gordon Brown:
“I think people should tell the truth. I think in this case someone exaggerated what they had done. [Sir] Alan Sugar is perfectly capable of making his decisions and we should support him in the decision that he made. But generally my advice to people is to tell the truth when they are applying for jobs. Because as was found in this case, it always comes out anyway and it became known that an exaggeration had been made.”
That the Government supports Sir Alan Sugar’s is of interest; it may even be right for Sugar to now support Brown. But what of Gordon Brown who never had to apply for his current job, the role of prime minister being handed to him on a plate.
But if his CV is the Labour Party manifesto, one might admire his, as Alan Sugar would say, chutspa.
Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: TV & Radio, Tabloids Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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June 16th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I would like to know why he DIDN’T give it to Claire, rather than why he did give it to Lee….?
June 14th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Lee was lucky, considering the inaccuracies on his CV. I only hope that readers don’t think that the quality of CVs and job applications is no longer important. Nothing could be further from the truth, in normal circumstances - i.e. when not part of a TV series. Usually, these documents are all that a prospective employer has on which to form important first impressions. Specialists can help with improving the standard of English on CVs and job applications – see http://www.simplywords.co.uk, for example.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Considering the lies the labour government is feeding this nation, its a bit rich of Gordon Brown to lambast Lee, just refresh his mind, it was the labour government that knowingly lied to the public about Iraq war. Yes Lee was wrong, but no body will die as a result of his lie, besides Sir Alan is able to get over this little dent in his cv, and I am proud of him for looking far and beyond, and giving Lee the chance to prove himself and with the right tools (which I am sure) he will be provided for, he will succeed!! Go Lee
June 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I think that Mr. Brown is quite right. I don’t think that Sir Alan Sugar should have hired Mr McQueen, because how can a man who hasn’t been honest, be trusted.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
CV exaggeration seems pretty easy for ‘business’ type jobs, I would think the ability to bullshit effectively would be a positive advantage.
Over here in the dull world of science (well, I like anyway) frauds are found out quite quickly. Basically you either know your stuff or you dont, and there are always people ready to point your failings, it’s called peer review.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Says Gordon Brown: “I think people should tell the truth. I think in this case someone exaggerated what they had done. ‘
But it was not an exaggeration it was a a lie. Was the Thames Valley candidate a drop out, excluded, an asbo, a debtor. We should be told.
Says Gordon Brown: ‘[Sir] Alan Sugar is perfectly capable of making his decisions and we should support him in the decision that he made. ‘
Eh why should Sir Alan be supported?
Says Gordon Brown: ‘But generally my advice to people is to tell the truth when they are applying for jobs. Because as was found in this case, it always comes out anyway and it became known that an exaggeration had been made.”
Out of the mouths of innocent babes and suckuplings comes…
Yes it always comes out
Why not ask the successful apprentice (as Louis Heren, a former deputy editor of the Times asked), and famously quoted by Newsnight’s J. UnderPanxsman ‘Why is this lying bastard lying to me?’