Brown Sugar
This is me standing in front of one of the nation's most famous Rollers. The number plate AMS1 should give it away. It's Sir Alan Sugar's motor. The entrepreneur (and hirer and firer of apprentices) is, I've discovered, a chum of the man who would be Britain's next prime minister.
I’ve been speaking to those who’ve grown up with Gordon Brown, who've worked with and debated with him for a Radio 4 documentary called What Does Gordon Really Think? (to be broadcast on Saturday at 11am). Friends can often, albeit inadvertently, be more revealing than enemies. Tune in to see who else has interesting things to say about the character and the views of Gordon Brown
PS My kids were very disappointed to learn that his boardroom at his low key HQ just down the road from Brentwood station in Essex looks nothing like the glamorous modern office suite on the penthouse of a city skyscraper shown in the programme. Is nothing real in TV?!!
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If I was your spin doctor, I would be advising against you standing next to a Roller.
For a start you look too used to this kind of vehicle and secondly it is wearing away at your image as the "people's reporter"
Hang on, did I get someting wrong there?
Nick,
You look like a tourist who has just spotted a prop from his favourite TV show and has forced a passer-by to take a picture of you before its owner comes back. Not a good look at all.
Looking forward to the Radio 4 show though.
Hi Nick, We would all like to think we know what makes our politicians tick apart from politics but judging by Ming Campbells recent Arctic Monkeys gaff it makes you wonder what sort of advisers they have at hand to advise on Image/PR issues. I think if Ming had declared himself a "14 Pints a Day Man" he would have seemed a bit more in touch with popular culture. We will have to wait and see what GB'S fascinating extra curricular activities are going to be?
With its round goggles, domed and shiny forehead, cheesy grin, and immaculate black outfit and matching sneakers, the Rolls-Royce crept gently up behind media man of the moment, Nick Robinson, as he was being photographed keeping a tree company in a car park. Knowing the power of association, it hoped to put its establishment image behind it and have a little populism rub off. When you’re at the top, the only way is down, so this could be a smart move on the part of the Rolls-Royce.
Is your programme another in the PR plug for Brown?
Hi Nick a new version of Golden Brown and the Stranglers, smiles very appropriate methinks:
Gordon Brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind he runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Always a frown with Gordon Brown
Every time just like the last
On his ship tied to the mast
To distant lands
Takes Tony's Blair's hands
Never a frown? with Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown finest economist
Through the ages he's heading
West
From far away
Stays for a day in the USA
Always a frown with Gordon Brown
Always a frown
With Gordon Brown
Never a clown
Its Gordon Brown
Where's your cap, Nick? :op
Alan Sugar supporting Brown....(I am in the IT hardware business) if you look at you desk or home PC I would bet 99% of you won't have a Viglen (Sugar's PC arm) on the desk. However you go into any schools, colleges or youth/sports centre and I would say there is a 99% chance that there will be a Viglen PC somewhere. Now I don't want to sound presumptious but I think Sir Alan has made a few quid out of this government....but as it's a case of buying British and keeping jobs in the UK then I think far play to the man.