The PM has to remain hired!

Pete
I am far from lazy and have worked all my life ,and for the none thinking i am in a healthy state of finance which did not come from been a none thinker but a hard worker and live life as your finance dictates and not putting yourself in a position you can,t afford as some people do,people need to clean up there own house before they blame others ,from your words you obviously have all the answers ,i will wait with baited breath as to who replaces the pm ,because that is going to be the final outcome and when things get worse who will people blame then

By chaz.. Posted June 8 2009 at 11:06 AM.

Sir (barrow boy) Alan you should stick to what you know which is obviousley not a lot !

Brown the best chancellor

He disolved 8 financial regulatory bodies into the 1 failed FSA the day after he and Blair got into No 10 & No11

He sold our Gold Reserves at thier lowest ever price just over $200 Gold now trading at nearly $1000 he also announced to the world what he was doing before he did it

He dismembered the pensions system in this country which at his time of comint to No 11 was envied throughout Europe & USA

He failed to save for a rainy day whilst times were good and is now spending even more and encouraging bigger debt

Your grand children will be paying for his mistakes for the next 30 years

What has made him your opinion our greatest chancellor other than the fact you got a knighthood and are looking forward to a peerage so you can at last feel as though you fit in BUT do not kid yourself you will NOT FIT IN

You will be as welcome in the house of Lords as much as you fit in at Claridges you will feel Uncomfortable and out of sorts GO BACK TO YOUR BARROW YOU CHANCER the people of this country do not need another sycophant prepaired to trade thier true feelings for a seat at the trough

By Christopher Poole.. Posted June 8 2009 at 7:13 AM.

Well, i quite like Alan sugar, never liked Brown. Sir Alan (was it labour that gave you the title? ah yes it was ) even though i think you did best under the conservatives floating Amstrad when Thatcher was in power and selling the whole lot and giving up control under Blair. Did you see this disaster coming maybe? Well i liked your example of a flooded house, but when the plumber brown first took on the job it was only a leaky tap.... he's since conned us into installing jacuzi's, an indoor water feature a hot tub and other crap we didn't need!now everything's over flowing he's stood scratching his head and looking stupid, when whats needed is a drain he's asking us to spend more on a swimming pool... the answer is obvious... time for a new plumber!

By charlie.. Posted June 7 2009 at 8:57 PM.

Dear Sir Alan, I have been self-employed for 33years and been repairing Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motor cars for over 40years. I am fortunate that I travel to many countries to work and I am often asked "What has Happened to Britain?". We have no industry that earns us sensible money. Our Pound goes up and down with the whim of the stock market. Our Public Services are paid for by all of us and we are working harder for less and less. I will never have money to retire and most of my generation have had our contrbutions spent by shareholders. Look at all the expensive offices in London that our money has been spent on. I have clients, with more money than you, who would be pleased to invest in Britain under a better Government. The rest of Europe laughs at us because we are so tolerant. Well, its fair to say that we have had enough of the patronising arrogance from our politicians. Please, tell Mr. Brown its time to go. I wish you well with your Knighthood and I hope you do well in your plans to allow businesses to prosper. I could certainly do better than Mr. Brown and would be happy to do so.

By William Pullar... Posted June 7 2009 at 9:08 PM.

chaz: "How do people believe Gordon Brown is responsible for the present brittish and world financial situation also the mp,s expenses scandel i don,t know."

No - obviously you don't - and neither do most of the other lazy, non-thinking people who support him. He didn't create these problems but he was in the best position to prevent the UK from suffering from them. If you believe he didn't know what was happening when so many have warned about its inevitability for the last 10 years, I have a bridge to sell you.

chaz: ".....if moaning people did not borrow what they could not afford the country would have been a lot better of put up or shut up,but as always not takers,"

Similarly, if moaning Prime Ministers did not recklessly borrow for the last decade (at the whole country's expense) what they could not afford, just to give the illusion of 'growth' the country would have been better off too.

If you aren't prepared to ask of the Prime Minister what you are expecting of everyone else in the population, then maybe it's you who should shut up.

By Pete.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:57 PM.

Keep your opinions to yourself Sir Alan 'cause we weren't offered a seat in the House of Lords. Let the people judge. Full stop.

By K Lee.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:56 PM.

Alan, please, catch yourself on.
Given a choice would anyone have choosen an Amstrad over a Sony or other leading Japanese brand (or even Philips)??
Plus if you said to any of your GB Labour bretheren 'You're fired' they would have you in front of an Industrial Tribuneral before you could say 'started in America' and you'd probably lose.

Don't you see....? these people arn't wealth creators.

By NI Dave.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:38 PM.

How do people believe Gordon Brown is responsible for the present brittish and world financial situation also the mp,s expenses scandel i don,t know. I fail to see how other world leaders are following his lead on how to recover from this situation if he was as much of an idiot as most of you believe,if moaning people did not borrow what they could not afford the country would have been a lot better of put up or shut up,but as always not takers,as for david cameron for pm what a joke all front and nothing to back it up

By chaz.. Posted June 7 2009 at 5:31 PM.

The more Sugar opens his mouth, the more it becomes obvious what a twit he is.

Best Chancellor we've ever had??? Make me laugh!

Let me go into debt for billions and I'll show you a good time for a few decades too.

By Mark.. Posted June 7 2009 at 4:06 PM.

brown took over astrong econemy that was made for us by kenneth clark but no one remebers this

By maurice price.. Posted June 7 2009 at 1:56 PM.

I, for one, am no longer a fan of Sugar. You are the Weakest Link, Sugar, goodbye!

By Mike.. Posted June 7 2009 at 1:47 PM.

Sugar for prime minister !!!!

By Anna.. Posted June 7 2009 at 1:29 PM.

sugar has spoken and most of it makes sense.
i've been angered by brown over his inaction to sack the 'expense cheats' and labours run in gov has not had many memorable policies, if you exclude all the taxation ect.

Brown should stay for a year because theres no one to do a better job..... not within the party, not cameron. plus labour MPs and ministers are resigning to try and destablish the party..... brown it standing firm..........one more year brown , then go..... but clean up labour.....

By millie.. Posted June 7 2009 at 12:56 PM.

Brown:Sugar. Yuk

By mrs_spratt.. Posted June 7 2009 at 12:16 PM.

Mr. Sugar - I always thought one of the things a successful businessman does is due-diligence with the person you're going into business with? You know and I know that Gordon Brown has run this country like a ponzi scheme. Like Madoff, Brown should be carted off to the nearest ginger ale!

By James.. Posted June 7 2009 at 12:12 PM.

Sugar cannot believe what he has said. As Chancellor Brown was profligate and spent all the surplus during the good years AND borrowed as well.
With his background Brown should have known about "fat & lean" years.
As chancellor he was a disaster.

By peter dodd.. Posted June 7 2009 at 11:53 AM.

Good Lord. Lord Tate & Lyle does have delusions after all. Still he would have to say what he does, it goes with the title.

By ernie.. Posted June 7 2009 at 11:12 AM.

the mere fact that sugar thinks that brown was the best chancellor we ever had shows how little he knows about economics he be getting rich under labour by taking full advantage of browns genorous tax subsidies to company's like sugar's.the last thing we need is another idiot trying to run our country

By Dave.. Posted June 7 2009 at 11:06 AM.

well done brown now you know what blair felt like.... still this country likes a fight back so get to it...

By artist neale howells.. Posted June 7 2009 at 10:30 AM.

Brown recruits Mandelson by making him a Lord and gives him the position of Secretary of State for Business in effect deputy Prime Minister. Alan Sugar is handed a Lordship so now we are getting an unelected Prime Minister and slowly an unelected government. Brown was at the D-Day commorations respecting the men who died for one thing that Brown hates democacy.

By Sam Moss.. Posted June 7 2009 at 9:08 AM.

As some one who is selfemployed business is still good a tad slow on some day's .I agree Brown is the best chancellor this country has had. Many take a pop at sugar, they have their reasons mainly it's lads and lasse's with chips on the old shoulder .I suggest many whinger's get off their backsides put down the papers switch of the news get out in to the real world and hey it aint as bad as you think most are doing fine people are still going on holiday , people still spend on the hobbyetc the credit crunch has in my view been talked up and in turn spooks some members of the public.

By Andrew finch.. Posted June 7 2009 at 9:00 AM.

"Lord" Sugar has put his reputation on the line by aligning himself politically with such a lost cause as Gordon Brown's economic achievements as Chancellor. He leaves me scratching my head how a self-made barrow boy such as he should favour such a maniacal tax-collector as his new-found, fiscal idol. Has Brown ever ran a business, let alone started one from scratch? Maybe Sugar's humble background makes him see Labour as the party for the working-class and has swallowed that myth wholesale? Business people should keep well out of politics. Politics is the art of compromise so politicians are a different creed altogether. Sugar will get burnt!

By Gordo.. Posted June 7 2009 at 8:58 AM.

I am not a Brownite either, but I entirely agrre with
Mr Roman. At this moment this is the best choice available to us. A Cameron and another Poll Tax? No way!

By R Wright.. Posted June 7 2009 at 8:55 AM.

Any monkey could have done what he done when he became chancellor. The foundations were prepared and laid for him when he stepped in. What does he build, well you can see for yourself what a utter mess this country is in. It looked good to start off with but everything did. The proof in the pudding is in the final product and it ain't pretty.

By Hebereke.. Posted June 7 2009 at 8:51 AM.

The man who has destroyed the best private pension system in the world. The man who sold off our gold reserves at rock bottom prices. The man who has created a bloated public sector, which the country can ill afford. And finally, the man who has created the largest amount of debt in our history. I could go on but to say Brown was a great Chancellor with financial understanding is an insult to ones iteeligence. I think Suagr is the no brainer

By Chris.. Posted June 7 2009 at 8:49 AM.

Sugar, you're an idiot!

By Dave Gibson.. Posted June 7 2009 at 8:30 AM.

One of the best Chancellors? Mr Sugar you still obviously believe in fairies! Wrecked the pensions of most working people, sold gold at the bottom of the market, wasted millions if not billions in the public sector, presided over the biggest crash in recent times.. If Gordon Brown was a great Chancellor I would hate to see a bad one.

By Barry Mellish.. Posted June 7 2009 at 8:25 AM.

Good move Sir Alan, You get a peerage, lots of new contacts and inside information and will still have them when Brown finally goes, plus a new client for your private jet company.

By mark roman.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:51 AM.

Sir Alan Sugar has once again hit the nail on the head. We need a fighter, not a quitter now. I am not a person who likes Gordon Brown, but at this moment in time he is the best chance we have of getting out of the mess we find ourselves in.

By Gerald King.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:49 AM.

Sugar, you might be a millionaire but you do not have a clue! Brown has gone downm in history as the worst Chancellor the country has ever had!Is this your "one of the best?"You are as clueless as your friend!

By Mark Hamilton.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:42 AM.

I enjoy watching The Apprentice but it's pretty clear that the candidates are many times more intelligent than the man who seeks to hire them. If Gordon Brown really has persuaded Sir Alan Sugar to enter Government and the House of Lords then the Prime Minister is confirming that he has simply lost his senses. I disagree that Gordon Brown was a good Chancellor. He may have been clever enough at the time to delude the British people but it is now obvious that he had not a clue about preparing for the future - indeed he thought that by the time he was found out that a Tory government would be in power and that they would take the blame. So don't Hire Sugar; Fire Brown.

By Richard King-Evans.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:30 AM.

You say "From a council flat in Hackney with my £50 mini-van-anything is possible in this country", but don't recognise that under Brown the wealth gap has widened.

But i agree with your original thoughts on Gordon Brown "he has not done his homework properly. The man doesn't know what he's talking about"

At least we know what your integrity is worth now.

By tony.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:26 AM.

One of the first thing Brown did as Chancellor was sell a huge chunk of the taxpayers gold reserve for the lowest price he could. He also destroyed private pensions by abolishing the re-investment of tax credits. So Sugar thinks this makes him a brilliant chancellor. It is hard to know who is the most deluded Brown or Sugar. No wonder they get on. This country will be much better off when we say goodbye to both of these arrogant weasels.

By jack1976.. Posted June 7 2009 at 7:35 AM.

It figures a man who may hire someone who doesn't know what turnover means or the difference between gross and net profit could well see Gordon Brown as a financial genius.

By G Edwards.. Posted June 7 2009 at 5:41 AM.

Sugar, your shareholders if they have any sense will dump your stock after reading this. Competance - Gordon never had it and you seem to be losing it, flogging your integrity for a Peerage.

By Mr Jones.. Posted June 7 2009 at 3:31 AM.

Sugar,, you're as deluded as Brown! He's robbed us of our pensions to pay for scroungers pouring into this country. He's saddled us with more debt than at any time in our history. He's taxed and fined us using every means at his disposal, then tried covering up the MP's expenses scandal. He'll be gone by this time next week!

By David Peers.. Posted June 7 2009 at 1:09 AM.