According to the Tories, the Apprentice is a business programme…
Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary asked of Ben Bradshaw in the commons:
“Do you believe that Sir Alan Sugar can combine his role as host of Britain’s most popular business TV programme with his new job as the government’s enterprise champion, where he will sit in the House of Lords taking the Labour whip?”
So there we have it. The Tories openly admit that they can’t tell the difference between a serious business programme, such as Working Lunch, and a piece of populist entertainment in which the British masses learn absolutely diddly squat about how to run a business.
Jeremy Hunt, thinking he was onto a winner in the Commons, continued that it was:
“something quite unprecedented where someone has their own weekly TV programme at the same time as being one of the main ambassadors for government policy in precisely the same area.”
Of course, if the election was next June, the Apprentice would be going out at the same time, Hunt continued:
“In that period would it be right for the BBC to carry on screening The Apprentice when its main star is a principal advocate of Government business policy?”
Another bare faced lie, which adds proof t hat the Tories aren’t willing to accept Sir Alan’s word that he’s approaching the position with a neutral stance so far as political allegiance is concerned. How demeaning of them.
When the Tories stop whipping up storms in teacups, perhaps then they’ll be a credible and trustworthy party.
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