Pour some sugar on me

Please don't. If you didn't get what I'm referring to here I'll tell you now that Sugar, namely Sir Alan Sugar, is the key to this entry. One of Gordy's most flashy additions to the Cabinet in this months reshuffle was to pour some Sugar (Sir Allan Sugar) onto it. Or rather to make him Enterprise Tsar. Supposedly this was due to a new drive to increase entrepreneurship, and since Sir Allan has just a bit of experience in this, he was the candidate they, ahem, hired. Some cynical bloggers have speculated that perhaps this was to cover up the fact that the cabinet didn't actually shuffle all that much. No comment. But it is kinda notable that if you remove the resignations the faces look remarkably similar. Did they invest in masks?

The controversy surrounding this appointment, however, did not address the terrible apprentice jokes that were subsequently adopted by the world's media, but rather the fact that under BBC rules presenters must be politically impartial. Ok so fair enough I see why the presenter of Question Time may need to be as impartial as possible. But politicos appear on the BBC all the time and since when was politics, other than those minute office ones, mentioned on the Apprentice. It rather seems that since the Tories were the first to flag up any issue this may rather be a cynical attempt to discredit the reshuffle ever further, describing the move as "completely incompatible". It is notable that Sugar, a high profile figure, has now had to defend his seemingly neutral post multiple times.

The issue I have is not Sugars innocence or not. If you want my opinion of the man himself watch the latest Have I Got News For You and Paul Merton's 'creative' impersonation. What I do have a bit of a grate about is the extension of the mud slinging culture ever since the expenses row. Since all the parties currently in Parliament have lost their "innocence" they've had to reduce their accusations to ever more personal levels. And who's actually been doing the whole politics thing? As it turns out it's Gordy. Sir Allan has also been able to keep both jobs. So maybe that celebrity cover up was a good idea after all.