Could anything more confirm this government’s hapless, pointless, useless, desperate, incompetence than the appointment of Alan Sugar* as “Enterprise Czar” (whatever the hell that is)? Doubtless this is something to do with the idea of a “government of all the talents”. Sheesh. Still, why end here? Readers are invited to speculate which of these preposterous characters should be the next to join the government and which jobs they should have:
Richard & Judy
Gillian McKeith
Ant & Dec
Ainsley Harriot
Noel Edmonds
Carol Vorderman
Paul Daniels
Simon Cowell
Susan Boyle
*American readers will have been spared having to know who Sugar is. Suffice it to say that he’s the presenter of the British version of The Apprentice and that this move by Brown is, therefore, rather like bringing Donald Trump into government. Yes, really. For once you might be hard pressed to make this sort of nonsense up.
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