Alan Sugar Urges Those With Big Balls To Get Behind Gordon Brown
IF only The Apprentice’s Alan Sugar could fire Gordon Brown. But Sir Alan only wants the best staff to fill that office job vacancy in Brentwood.
Can he make Gordon an offer he cannot ignore, perhaps pushing Sugar’s new range of Amstrad teeth whitening fluid?
Here’s Sir Alan championing his man at the start of the Labour Party conference. You may need to wash you teeth after reading this:
“My company got into big trouble at the end of the eighties. I was into the banks for £150million. That was a lot of money then. I had £300million pounds of inventory and I also had a bunch of executives that had enjoyed the rise to fame.
“I called them all in for a meeting and I said, ‘Those of you who are worried about tarnishing your CVs who might wanna leave what they perceive to be a sinking ship like rats, clear off now. And those of you that are with me we’re going to go into battle and sort this out.’
“I am pleased to report that we turned that deficit of £150million owed to the banks and £300million of inventory into cash balances of £140million but that’s another story. The reason for that story is blatantly clear. It is a synergy to government at the moment.
“One thing we can all agree on that Gordon was the best Chancellor of the Exchequer this country saw for many years.
“Who better to be in place when we have an economic problem than him? And dare I say to those that are not happy: Get Out. Have the balls to get out.
“And those of you who are left: Get behind the Prime Minister in the times ahead of us.”
If you’ve got big balls, get behind Gordon Brown. We hear you, Sir Alan. It’s not just gays who are sweet on Alan Sugar.
And this might be the very same Sir Alan who before his knighthood for services to beards and pointy fingers wrote to the FT in 1992 (thanks Ed):
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.
The reason Labour flourished many years ago was the ‘them and us’ situation that prevailed in England. There were the rich and there were the poor. At that stage maybe I would have sympathised with the need for a Labour government. But that’s all been changed now. Look around. Yes, there are the very poor and more should be done for them. But almost everybody’s got a microwave oven, a car and a colour television - maybe more than one colour television in their homes. Let’s be honest with each other. ‘Them and us’ doesn’t exist any more, as I have demonstrated.
I have been able to come from the working class, achieve what I set out to achieve and not be suppressed by anybody. Likewise, in the stock market today there are bright young men with a Cockney accent doing deals and buying and selling shares. It’s not just the Heskett-Smythes mob that are doing it. Anybody can do it.
The government has made mistakes; nobody’s perfect. To be sure, somebody took his eye off the ball. Now the belt has been tightened and there have been casualties. But it is not just the poor unemployed factory worker from the Midlands who is being thrown out of work. So are the merchant bankers, the stockbrokers and the estate agents.
Labour offers no sort of route out of recession. It’s out of date and - as Brown’s remark shows - it hasn’t done its homework.
Of course it might all be wrong, and Sir Alan might not recall the comment. Sometime what we say we are and what we are don’t tally…
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September 22nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Lone Pigeon
I”m not fussed on Cameron either, did you see the interview where he let the Press into
his home to try to come across as an ordinary bloke?. He has a child who i think is
autistic or has cerebral palsy and has my sympathy. However, having been born with a
silver spoon in his mouth he can afford the best treatment so would have no idea how
a working class person would cope.
He is more of a sound bite person to me, no real ideas on how to improve the situation
in Britain.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
chenier
I saw a very good programme on Dispatches a couple of months ago detailing how all
this started.
About 4 years ago the good people of Cleveland, Ohio were offered Mortgages up to100% to buy their homes even though Cleveland was a poor area. The Banks sold on
part of the Mortgages to different banks, who in turn sold part on to other banks, all
of whom thought they would make a profit. Trouble began when many people in
Cleveland lost their jobs and could not afford the Mortgage repayments. The properties were sold at a loss and this had a domino effect on all the banks.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
…only our sense of humour, which not even those bastards in the city can take away…!
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Saul
Hi Saul, I read a long time ago that Freud disliked human beings because they were
irrational and he preferred animals.
Maybe we should forget Party Politics and have a system where the the most capable
people were appointed to head each department to get this Country back on it”s feet.
Trouble is Britain owns very little now.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Val,
I have been around in the City for so long that I remember the Sovereign Debt crisis starting back in 1982; yet another of the lunatic schemes whereby bankers managed to delude themselves that they had found a sure-fire way to make huge profits without any risks.
The market forces which should have prevented bankers making vast loans to developing countries without any means of repaying them simply did not work; cue massive bail-out of banks and very little help for the countries involved.
The same market forces should have prevented bankers from making vast numbers of loans to poor people to buy their homes without any means of repaying them; cue massive bail out for the banks and no mention of any help to the home-buyers.
That is an oversimplification, of course, in that the debt crisis is also a result of dodgy financial instruments which should have been strangled at birth but which were instead hailed as miracles of modern finance, but the core reason is the failure of market forces to behave as they theoretically should…
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Party politics have been overtaken by world money market trends. I t doesnt matter whıch party are ın power, but as has been said, I m sure the tories are breathing a sigh of relief.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Lone
I gather that you feel we are unlikely to do better under Cameron, then?
It should be interesting to see what comes out of the conference; if they really are mad enough to vote for no increase in borrowing then we will have a Nulab government for the forseeable future.
It doesn’t matter how p*ssed off people are; they will not vote for a government to double their income tax bill…
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hi everyone,
The average American owes $7,900 so far for the bale out of FM & FM and AIG,
the latest is Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are changing to a Bank to enable
them to get financial help…………….can you believe the corruptness of the financial
system in the U.S .and here?
An American economist was being interviewed the other day and said that the U.S.,having enjoyed nearly a Century of progress and wealth should now consider
another country taking over as the World”s leading economy. With a debt now standing at 4 trillion $, maybe the U.S. doesn”t have a choice.!!!!!!!
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
dairy,
Transferring money is very easy; give me your bank details and I can show you
Not.
The sequence of events appears to be that the Lehman Brothers holding company in the US was pulling all the funds they could get their hands on in a desperate attempt to stave off bankruptcy, with scant regard to the question of whether it was Lehman Brothers holding company money.
As opposed to the money of the Lehman Brothers companies operating in London, or the money of the clients of Lehman Brothers London companies…
Which is why Price Waterhouse Cooper is demanding that they give back around $8 billion dollars which was transferred to the US just hours before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy there…
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Chernier I know you’re that warm and loving goddess
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Cameron is a complete jerk off too in my opinion. My friend had dinner with him a couple of weeks ago and he told me that he was sooooooo up his own self worth that he almost swallowed himself whole.
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
would love to know - how do you manage to siphon off $8 billion without anybody noticing and once you’ve got it, how do you conceal it…? for reference purposes, of course….
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Lone,
I’m sure that Artemis, being at heart a warm and loving goddess, would wish to go easy on everyone; I, on the other hand, am cheering on PriceWaterhouseCooper’s demand that Lehman Brothers gives back the $8 billion dollars it siphoned out of London just before it went over the cliff.
To give the devil his due, Gordon Brown is shouting at the USA on this very topic; it would be nice if Cameron raised his voice as well…
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
or was you shouting at me? - did you mean go easy on the capitalists?
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I was shouting that bit tho and wanted to get my point across
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Gordon Brown in my opinion is totally thick. He said yesterday that because he was chancellor for 10 years he had gained the experience to get us out of the current dilemma. Does being in a job for a long time automatically qualify you as being the best man for a job? Simply, in a word, no. He made huge mistakes whilst being chancellor. The global meltdown was going to happen anyway and now we have a self proclaimed prime minister who actually believes, because he says so, that he is the best man for everything. Excuse me while I piss myself with laughter for a second…..
I don’t think i’ve ever come across a man before who is sociably inept, politically rubbish and full of his own self importance as much as Gordon Brown. My biggest worry is that the Politician infection is so far widespread the only course of action is the same as with the foot and mouth disease - BURN THE FUCKING LOT OF THEM.
—
M&A
ARTEMIS
GO EASY ON THE CAPITALS, LONE!
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
“One thing we can all agree on that Gordon was the best Chancellor of the Exchequer this country saw for many years.”
But since for many years he was the ONLY Chancellor of the Exchequer he must have been the best. Start thinking about what you are saying, Sugar.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 am
I’ve never hada fascination for Sugar myself - although I know people who fall over themselves to flatter what is essentially a foul-mouthed, ignorant and arrogant Chancer of a man!
He struck lucky at the right time. He isn’t an excellent business-man - he just had a lucky moment and when he was unlucky - he called in favours - and people helped him out of the unlucky creek he had fallen into.
Rather like a Clan we know from another thread on here!
So - no! It does not surprise me that he has forgotten some of the mouthy things he has said about anybody at anytime!
And I would appreciate it if a load of his Hangers-On don’t come on here saying how much he does for charity.
Thanks for this reminder of Fair Weather Friends at work!!!
September 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I’m with you on that one, John Blake.
It is profoundly ironic that a global financial melt-down has happened in the nick of time to convince the Labour Party that chucking out the guy who knows most about the global financial melt-down would not be a very sensible idea.
Cameron must be thanking his Maker that Gordon will have to deal with it, and praying that his own Party Conference will not lumber him with a lower borrowing policy, thus providing Gordon with the opportunity of pointing out that a Tory government would double the rate of Income Tax as its first move…
September 21st, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Get behind Gordon Brown? He is the leader of a government that is highly incompetent and morally bankrupt. Brown, Darling,Straw, etc all deserve something from behind……….a wack from a baseball bat for the damaged they have done to England.
England expects said Horatio Nelson, but not to be F**K by its own government.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
he had that amstrad emailer phone thing on his desk in the last but one series that he’s not been able to sell since 1980.
only other one i’ve ever seen was in his house.
noticed it had disappeared last saeries though.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Sugar was the man who foisted cheap VHS players on Dixons and the like. They broke down, you binned them. Not a spare part in sight, totally unrepairable. if you were lucky they just about outlasted the warranty. And yet, numpties bought them by the thousand, making Sugar his millions. He’s just like Joe Ratner, except he didn’t actually say his products were ‘crap’
September 21st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
He’s the man who killed the Sinclair Spectrum and foisted off the Amstrad CPC464 on us (Yes, I had one - green screen and all, God help me). For that alone, and nothing else I hate you Sugar, you f**k.